Do Dinosaurs live today?

[JesusFreak4545]

<SPAN class=ip-normal-font>This may seem like a highly unscientifically informed question but in fact there is a lot of evidence to the fact that donosaurs exist today and if they don'y they have existed in the relatively near past. A couple of decades ago (I'm not exactly sure when I think it was either the 60s or 70s) Japanese fishing crew pulled up a dead creature in their equipment. It had just died a couple of weeks ago but what begginning to decay so they took some pictures and threw it back overboard. The pictures matched exactly with scientists' notions of what a Plebiosaur looked like. The Japanese scientist immeadiately declared it to have been a dead Plebiosaur. The Western scientist- not wanting to conterdict the evolutionary theory that these creayures had been exyinct for millions of years disagreed. They could give no logical explanation of what it could be but said simply that it couldn't be a Plebiosaur because they no longer existed. I have a picture of this in a book at there is not really any doubt in my mind what it is. I don't know where to find one on the net but if I find one I'll post a link so you can see it. There are many many other reporting however of dinosaur like creatures. This is just an example.

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[ZiSunka]

Gosh, is that old story still around?

I first read that tale from a book written in the 1700's. The story changes a little from generation to generation (like the part about taking photos), but it's still just an urban legend. The photo was debunked as a fake many years ago, like when my dad was a little boy.

 

[DaveKerwin]

There is a fish alive today nicknamed "the living fossil." It's called the coelacanth. It's very interesting to read about. Check out this link.

http://www.enn.com/features/1999/12/121099/fossil_7406.asp

This one too:

http://www.dinofish.com/



I believe its possible that some species never went extinct.

 

[DaveKerwin]

uh, no one likes the dino fish ?

 

[Willowolf]

Hey Jesus Frear 4545, I saw the query you posted and I got interested. I'm new on the Forum, so I don't know my way around. Anyway, I just finished reading a book called Dinosaur Dilemma: Fact or Fantasy by Dennis Gordon Lindsay. Very good author. I copied a portion of the text on the Dinosaur you are talking about, there was a drawing, but it wouldn't copy. Well, you might have already read this book, but here it is:

Japan.
The enormous reptiles of the oceans could have survived the Flood without being taken on the Ark. Many ships have given reports of what look like the plesiosaurs. In 1977 a Japanese fishing ship, the Zuiyo Maru, netted the body of a massive strange creature near New Zealand which some scientists believe to be a plesiosaur’s carcass. A zoologist on board took careful measurements, samples, and pictures before returning the rotting carcass to the sea so as not to contaminate their large cargo of fish. The carcass measured 32 feet long and weighed about 4,000 pounds.
The photos, samples and the report of the zoologist were examined and tested by a committee of high-ranking Japanese marine scientists. The Director of Animal Research at the National Science Museum of Japan said, “&#65279;It seems that these animals are not extinct after all. It’s impossible for only one to have survived. There must be a group.&#65279;”

In 1977 a Japanese fishing ship netted the body of a massive strange creature near New Zealand weighing about 4,000 pounds and measuring 30 feet in length. A zoologist on board took careful measurements, samples, and pictures of the creature. Many scientists believe this was the carcass of a dead plesiosaur’which evolutionists claim to have been extinct for 60–70 million years.
The find made such an impression on the Japanese government, it was commemorated on a postage stamp as the scientific discovery of the year. The discovery led to the plesiosaur being used as the official emblem of the 1977 National Exhibition, which celebrated 100-years of scientific discovery. The Japanese scientists had no cause to doubt the authenticity of the find. The Western world, however, took a more skeptical view.
Lindsay, D. G. (1999, c1990). The dinosaur dilemma : Fact or fantasy. Dallas, TX: Christ for the Nations.

P.S. By the way I have a few of Lindsay's book's on my computer. They're very interesting. In the book I mentioned there are other dinosaur sittings and facts as well.
God Bless, Willowolf : )

 

[DeputyDan]

Ever watched many people on a computer. Dino's abound.....

 

[seebs]

There's plenty of good sources to look at about the question of the alleged "dinosaur"; this one isn't the same urban legend from the 1700's, but it's not a pleiosaur, either.