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__​__ __Welcome To My Wiki Page__ ** __ Would Dinosaurs be able to live on Earth Today? __ ** This question could be debated on many levels, including size, habitat, their adaptability and food sources available. Of all these things, the mere size of these creatures plays a huge part in the answer of this question. **Many people think dinosaurs were all huge animals that could peer over the tops of tall trees. ** But not all dinosaurs were huge like the // Gigantosaurus // fossil above. Many dinosaurs were small — some were about the size of young chickens, and some (like // Mussaurus //) were not much bigger than a dinosaur tooth. 

A Brachiosaurus through the enormous size of his body would have been able to destroy a small town just trying to turn  around. A T-Rex could destroy an entire population just trying to satisfy his hunger. The other question is whether man would be able to co exist with these large animals by being able to tame them well enough, so as to avoid living in fear of these creatures. One thing is for certain with a T Rex living in your back yard there would be next to no crime rate at all.

Although this seems to answer the question on dinosaur’s ability to co exist with humans, let’s remember that some form of dinosaurs have adapted their way of life to be able to live on Earth today. These include the humming bird, tuatara, crocodile, cockroach and turtle. The cockroach has been able to exist in almost any environment on Earth today – hot, cold, cities, and countries it has even been suggested by some experts that the cockroach is the only animal to survive the holocaust. If you don’t believe me just ask your parents about how adaptable a cockroach has become.

 The crocodile has adapted itself to live on Earth today with virtually no known predators, except for humans. They are advantageous predators that can survive with very little food and with injuries that would ensure most other animals expire.

 Could a T-Rex survive? Has anyone seen Jurassic Park? Whilst that fictitious film had dinosaurs living on Earth today, we need to think could that really happen. Could we have a park that is set up for humans to safely observe dinosaurs? Would it be able to meet all of today’s occupational health and safety regulations to actually get any visitors? Whilst we do have crocodile parks and safari holidays, these exhibitions are done at a relatively safe viewing distance; the speed with which some dinosaurs are said to have possessed would mean that if they chose to attack we simply would not have enough reaction time to get to safety. When we also consider that in some of the safari parks overseas it has been documented that sometimes the animals have a lapse and actually attack vehicles and visitors to these parks could you imagine if a dinosaur, a T REX even decided to grab hold of someone or something…….. Frightening isn’t it?

The mere size of some of these creatures would be a reason that they simply would be unable to live on Earth today. The amount of food, space and the lack of resources we would have to care for them (health requirements), would mean that this would be a very big challenge to ensure that they could co-exist with the human race.

Smaller dinosaurs such as Microapters and Lariosaurus could be kept in a large aqua-marine tank, like the ones in which we keep turtles, lizards and snakes in today. Provided they are well fed and kept in an environment that is hospitable to them, they should be able to adapt in today’s society.

So in conclusion, Could dinosaurs live on Earth today? Yes, it is possible to assume that whilst some dinosaurs could live on earth with humans today, it is also important to remember that some already do. The dinosaurs that could live on Earth would have to have been adaptable and able to co-exist within our societies of today, just as the lizards, crocodiles, humming birds, turtles and cockroaches do now.