What Would

[darren1664]

what would the world be like today if the dinosoars diddnt become extinct..

[Mattk]

Technically they aren't extinct as birds are direct descendants. They were built too large so nature scaled them down over time to better suit the available food chain.

[grasscarp]

The M25 would be closed more often that it currently is.

[jim360]

Different. But that's about 65 million years of different history, so it's frankly impossible to even begin to speculate. One thing, though, is certain -- if dinosaurs hadn't become extinct after the asteroid collision (up to their bird relatives, anyway), then it would certainly have happened some time later anyway, or they would at least have evolved in some way such that you would no longer recognise them as dinosaurs.

So, likely, the world would have been entirely different and we might not evne have been here to ask the question.

[ToraToraTora]

There was a horizon type program about this some years ago and they reckoned that they could have evolved into intelligent beings, so we could have had a reptillian "race".

[DrFilth]

1/4 pounder with cheese would be a simple colossal with cheese please

[wolf63]

And we would be a bit further down the food chain

[sandyRoe]

We might even constitute the meaty ingredient of those massive hamburgers.

[woofgang]

knee deep in poo

[EcclesCake]

We'd be less worried about rabbits and deer devastating our orchards and allotments.

[wolf63]

And we would have evolved to run faster. Fatties (like myself) might give the dinosaurs indigestion but we will be easily caught.

[Old_Geezer]

Probably without many of the same species we have today, such as humans. I'm unconvinced the large dinosaurs would have evolved intelligence to take our place though. They didn't manage it in the time they were here.

[weecalf]

Don't think they every existed them bone them bones were only planted to publicise that song ..them them bones them ...

[Zacs-Master]

I wonder if there's a planet somewhere, where they survived and evolved into an intelligent, sentient race?

[janbee]

We'd need a supply of VERY large Poop Scoopers.... but just imagine the wonderful roses everywhere with all that manure !

[wildwood]

Seeing dinosaurs were around for 180 million years, they had plenty of time to become intelligent to our way of thinking. They did not need to build houses or type on internet forums, so any of the 'human intelligence' would have been wasted so didn't evolve. There is still one genuine dinosaur species living as it was millions of years ago living NZ, google Tuatara. A small branch of the theropod dinosaurs evolved in to the present birds. And the present crocodiles are very similar to the ones living 100 millions year ago.

The dinosaurs that were around 65 millions years ago would not survive in the present Earth's climate so the question is impossible to answer with any conviction. There was much continental drift in the Triassic period so the vast majority of the dinosaurs could not have survived even if there was no meteoroidal disaster.

[DJHawkes]

well I don't think they would have invented TV or the internet and so it would probably have been a more outdoor existence. I wonder if the scaled down dinosaur would have managed to land on the moon?