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The simplest way to determine age from growth rings, which reflect seasonal changes in the rate of tissue growth, does not apply to dinosaurs. In those days, environmental conditions were the same throughout the year, and animals could grow evenly. Growth rings did not form on trees, nor on the teeth or bones of dinosaurs. Therefore, one can only speculate about the age of dinosaurs. Immediately after birth, the animals certainly grew rapidly, especially the chicks, which were fed and protected by the female during the first weeks of life. Brood animals at an early age were more independent, but grew more slowly. As soon as young dinosaurs reached two-thirds the size of an adult animal, they became capable of procreation. Now their growth slowed down, but did not stop until the end of their lives. It is believed that giant dinosaurs took 40 to 50 years to reach sexual maturity, and they could live up to 200 and even up to 300 years. The life expectancy of small species was, in all likelihood, less - from one to two decades.

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Dinosaurs (from the Greek dinosauria, deinos - "terrible" and saurus - "lizard") lived in the Mesozoic era, which is divided into three periods: Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Throughout the history of studying the remains of ancient lizards, paleontologists have been able to identify and describe over 500 different species of these reptiles.

When did the first dinosaurs appear?

The first dinosaurs, the archosaurs, appeared 230 million years ago. Typical representatives of the Triassic period were Placerias, Plateosaurus, Coelophysis, Cynodont, and Peteinosaurus.

During the Jurassic period, when a temperate climate was established on Earth, flying lizards appeared (Archeopteryx, Pterodactyl, Pterosaurus), as well as large predatory dinosaurs (Stegosaurus, Diplodocus, Anurognathus, Allosaurus, Ankylosaurus and others). The remains of some of them paleontologists found in the Saratov region.

During the last period of the Mesozoic era, giant lizards lived on Earth, many of them reached 5-8 meters in height and 20 meters in length. Typical Cretaceous reptiles: Velociraptor, Seismosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Iguanodon and Culasuchus.

How many years did dinosaurs live?

Paleontologists believe that the lifespan of small species ranged from one to two decades, and large dinosaurs could live from 200 to 300 years.

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When did dinosaurs live?

When did dinosaurs live?

The Spanish cave of Casares, also dating from the Ice Age, shows a group of three monstrous dinosaur-like creatures. Two of these animals are large, possibly adults, and the third animal is small, apparently a calf. All three have long necks, massive but ill-defined torsos, and strange reptilian heads. They look menacing.

As in other cases, the logic of the caves themselves suggests that these are creatures that the artists actually saw outside the walls of their dwellings.

Baigent, Michael. Forbidden archeology. Sensations and hoaxes of ancient and early history. Page 102

This question seems to have nothing to do with the problem of the correct dating of the time of life of primitive people, but, nevertheless, its consideration demonstrates on what a shaky foundation the entire building of prehistoric chronology is built. The fact is that the finds of bones of dinosaurs, which allegedly completely disappeared from the face of the Earth 60 million years ago or even became extinct for tens of millions of years before the corresponding global cosmic catastrophe that destroyed the last of them, amaze archaeologists with their freshness and excellent preservation.

As Di Welt reported in its science section on October 9, 2006, in September 2005, American and Mongolian paleontologists found 67 skeletons of small dinosaurs in the Gobi desert in two days. Obviously, they didn't have to dig too deep! And a year before, Jack Horner, who led the search for dinosaurs, had already unearthed 30 such skeletons.

In the Gobi desert, dinosaur skeletons often lie directly on the surface, but by some miracle they are perfectly preserved in an area where sandstorms demolish archaeologists' tents well-fixed in stone ground many times a year. And the grains of sand flying at great speed during such storms process the surface of the skeletons no worse than high-quality sandpaper. Nevertheless, as Heinzon writes, it is often difficult to consider such finds older than the skeletons of animals that obviously died in the most recent time.

When reading the reports of the relevant expeditions of paleontologists, one often gets the impression that scientists who find well-preserved dinosaur skeletons are well aware that these dinosaurs lived quite recently, but do not dare to come up with heretical short datings, fearing the revenge of their academic colleagues from the silence of their offices, in which there are no sandstorms and in which dinosaurs obviously have not lived for a long time ..

Worse, the bones of dinosaurs found by scientists with such ease are not always completely fossilized: they often find preserved genetic material in them. For example, the gene material of tyrannosaurs that were not completely fossilized and for at least 80 million years was found (it is believed that these cute little animals died out 20 million years before the bulk of the more peaceful dinosaurs, which they ate without using the services of fire for cooking) . Until recently, scientists were sure that organic matter undergoing gradual mineralization cannot retain DND for more than two million years (also, of course, a fantastically long time!), So the named find would mean that dinosaurs lived simultaneously with the first hominids, which supposedly roam the Our planet is at least four million years old.

But the idea of ​​the simultaneous existence of humans and dinosaurs is one of the axiomatic taboos accepted by science. Otherwise, one can agree even to the point that numerous legends about dragons carry the existence of dinosaurs side by side with humans even into the Late Stone Age, if not even in early historical times!

In order to free themselves at least for a while from the need to seriously deal with this paradox, colleagues simply suspect the authors of the finds of careless handling of dinosaur bones found close to the surface (for example, in the state of Utah in the USA), during which, they say, the finds were contaminated with human genetic material. It would be interesting to know whether geneticists have learned in recent years to distinguish between human and dinosaur DNA. Or, indeed, the DNA of dinosaurs differed so little from that of our ancestors that we, too, may not come from ugly monkeys, but from cute dinosaurs.

Heinsohn cites other examples of dinosaur remains that have not rotted away and at the same time not quite fossilized (for example, dinosaur eggs), which make even less substantiated hundreds of thousands of years during which it has not been preserved or for which, despite the vigorous efforts of scientists, no no remains of human skeletons have been found. He believes that here, too, we are talking about the need to radically shorten the chronology of prehistory.

Interestingly, one of the most active critics of the New Chronology of Fomenko and Nosovsky, Ustin Valeryevich Chashchikhin (who characterizes himself as a “graduate of Moscow State University and MEPhI”), is also a supporter of a radical reduction in the chronology of prehistory. Here is what he writes on his website on the Internet in the section http://www.cnt.ru/users/chas/dinosaur.htm, in an article entitled "When did dinosaurs live?"

… dating according to the geochronological scale is incorrect, it is based on outdated ideas. In addition, there is a logical error in the “dating” according to the geochronological scale - a vicious circle […]. Therefore, the assertion that dinosaurs allegedly lived 100 million years ago has no evidence, and the geological layers formed quickly as a result of a tectonic catastrophe, a rapid split. (The author means the split of the ancient continent, as a result of which quickly, within days, and not millions of years, Europe and Africa on one side and both Americas on the other - E.G.) quickly diverged over a gigantic distance - E.G.) When did dinosaurs live? Dinosaur experts point out […] that typically most original dinosaur bones have not yet been fossilized […] and fossilization can be very rapid, depending on the concentration of minerals in the solution. This indicates that dinosaurs became extinct relatively recently. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were American alligators 6.5 m long […]. According to National Geographic magazine […], 500 years ago on the island of Madagascar there lived a bird-dinosaur aepiornis, 3 meters long and weighing 500 kg.

Further, the author exclaims: “PEOPLE have seen dinosaurs!” And then he quotes the Bible, in the book of Job, in the 40th chapter (verses 10-19), a huge creature is described, which has “a tail like a cedar” (Job 40:12), and “feet like copper pipes” (Job 40:13) . He cites a long quotation from the book of Job and analyzes it, after which he formulates the following conclusions:

This description only fits a dinosaur (diplodocus, sauropod). So the "behemoth" described in Job 40 is just a dinosaur! Therefore, dinosaurs and humans coexisted. The writing of the Book of Job dates back about 4,000 years ago. (Here the critic of the new chronology played a little in the historians' favorite game of stretching time intervals - E.G.)

In addition, in the Bible, in the book of the prophet Isaiah, ch.30, art. 6, along with such living animals as lions, donkeys and camels, a flying serpent is also described. Isn't that a pterodactyl?

Noting that in other cultures there are also descriptions of lizards and dragons (Chinese dragons, the Celtic epic Beowulf), which could be chronicle evidence of dinosaurs, and mentioning the Russian epic about “Ivan Tsarevich and the Serpent Gorynych”, Chashchikhin comes to the following conclusion: “ From all this it is clear that dinosaurs lived recently - several centuries ago and were described by many peoples (Chinese, etc.) as dragons, and as a "behemoth" in the Bible, Job 40:10-19. And they died out, respectively, recently, several centuries ago due to cooling and the Ice Age. As we can see, the radical reduction of prehistory finds allies on both sides of the barricade separating the supporters of historical analytics from the fans of TI.

Chashchikhin's point of view is not only accepted, but also actively promoted by the German author Dr. Hans-Joachim Zillmer, who devoted several books from the series [Zillmer1-5] to the joint stay on Earth of dinosaurs and humans, as well as to criticism of geological dating. for example books:

Darwin's mistake. Antediluvian finds prove that dinosaurs and humans lived together, 1998.

Mistakes in the history of the Earth. A desert on the site of the Mediterranean Sea, dense forests in the Sahara and the worldwide dominance of dinosaurs. The deepest antiquity was yesterday, 2001.

Dinosaur Handbook. Facts, findings, contradictions, 2003.

I note that in the second of the books named here, chapter 5 is titled "An Invented Stone Age?" In it, the author, in particular, refers to the book of Heinsohn considered here. The work of Illig and Heinsohn also forms the basis of chapter 5 of Zillmer's book, which bears the headings "Fresh Dinosaur Remains" and "The Phantom Middle Stone Age".

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Before touching on the question of how many years ago dinosaurs lived, let's clarify who they are in general. Dinosaurs are extinct land vertebrates. To date, scientists have about 500 different genera and more than 1000 different species.

Why were these vertebrates called dinosaurs? This happened in 1842. The term was introduced by the English biologist Richard Owen. This was done for the convenience of describing these species of extinct animals. The fact is that the bones of large vertebrates found by archaeologists in different places on the planet were gigantic in size. This amazed the scientists. It was obvious that the creatures that lived on the planet many thousands of years ago were not just large, but huge. From the ancient Greek "dinosaur" - "terrible, terrible."

Who was first?

How long did dinosaurs live? We'll find out a little later. In the meantime, it's time to find out whose remains were discovered the very first. It's a staurikosaurus. Predator, its size resembling a large dog. He weighed about 30 kg, this is with a height of 80 cm. The only difference from the dog is that the staurikosaurus moved only on its hind legs.

The second place is occupied by the Herrerasaurus, or Herrerasaurus. This is a bipedal "terrible lizard", which is an order of magnitude larger than a staurikosaurus. Is a predator.

Habitat

How long did dinosaurs live and where? Their habitat was extensive - the whole planet. The remains of lizards were found both in South America and on the territory of modern Egypt.

Classification

These vertebrates are conditionally divided into two types:

1. Lizards.
2. Ornithischian.

Why "conditionally", how do they differ? The direction of the bones. Lizard-hipped dinosaurs had pubic bones pointing forward. Ornithischians differed in the bones, directed backwards initially.

When did dinosaurs live?

We have almost come to the main question of this article: how long did the dinosaur period last? These animals lived safely on the planet in the Mesozoic, namely from the late Triassic period to the end of the Cretaceous. This is from about 225 million years ago to 66 million years ago.

How long did dinosaurs live

Differences are not only in types

All "terrible lizards" were completely different: predators and herbivores, small and large, bipedal and quadrupedal. The average life expectancy of dinosaurs of various species also varies. Small representatives lived very little, 20-30 years. Large individuals lived 2-3 centuries. It is known that large predatory dinosaurs reached sexual maturity only by the age of 40-50.

How many years ago did dinosaurs live? They appeared about 225 million years ago.

Scientists are still arguing on this topic. It is very strange why so many rather large and well-adapted creatures died out. There are a lot of hypotheses about this, the most common are the following:

1. The fall of a giant meteorite to the ground.
2. The split of the continents.
3. Changing of the climate.
4. Extermination by predatory species, first herbivores, and then their own kind.

How long did dinosaurs live? This is what we found out. And now let's go over some very interesting facts about the "terrible lizards":

1. The largest of these was the Seismasaurus. This giant was distinguished by a calm disposition and the fact that he ate plant foods.
2. Titanosaurus is the heaviest of all its "brothers". Its weight, according to scientists, reached 80 tons.
3. In our world lives the closest relative of vertebrates that died out many thousands of years ago - the crocodile.
4. Compsognathus is the smallest of the dinosaurs. Its weight was about 2.5 kg.
5. Tyrannosaurus rex is the most feared predator of all the dinosaurs that once inhabited our planet.
6. Brachiosaurs are the longest representatives of all genera of dinosaurs. The body length of a brachiosaurus could well reach 50 meters.
7. Huge and scary dinosaurs had very small brains. The brain size of some individuals was no larger than a walnut.
8. The teeth of a tyrannosaurus reached 30 cm.
9. Young tyrannosaurs added several kilograms daily during growth.
10. The most protected was the ankylosaurus. On the tail was a bone mace with sharp spikes. And on the body was armor made of spikes.

Summarizing

The article addressed questions about who dinosaurs were, how many years ago they lived, in what period, what is the life expectancy of a particular representative of the genus. Let's remember the main aspects.

Dinosaurs are vertebrates that became extinct many years ago. Appeared on the planet about 225 million years ago. How long did dinosaurs live? They lived on earth for about 160 million years. Life spans fell on the Mesozoic era. The largest dinosaurs successfully lived up to the age of 200-300 years. As for small individuals, their age barely reached 30 years.

Conclusion

The life of dinosaurs is a mystery that scientists are still trying to discover. Maybe someday they will be able to do it.

The word "dinosaur", which translates as "terrible lizard", appeared in 1842, when humanity was just trying to figure out what kind of bones these are found during excavations. It was then that the science of paleontology was born. The history of dinosaurs has been repeatedly rewritten since then, and at the moment there are a lot of versions about their origin, formation and extinction. Consider the most common and relatively official version.

The origin of the dinosaurs

Attempts to explain in simple terms the history of dinosaurs in a film or cartoon have been made repeatedly, but the events that preceded their appearance on our planet were practically not covered anywhere. As you know, the ancestors of these creatures are reptiles and birds. In particular, the crocodiles that exist at the moment have the most similar features to the ancient monsters. About 300 million years ago, when lizards already existed in the form we are used to, there was a serious climate change. The rainforests were largely destroyed, and the remnants of life huddled in the remaining small enclaves. This gave the first impetus to a huge variety of species, since each population developed independently of each other and tried to adapt to the conditions in which it existed. And they differed greatly in different regions. This is how the ancestors of dinosaurs appeared, called archosaurs by scientists.

First views

The history of dinosaurs, at least in the form in which they are represented by modern man, began about 200-245 million years ago. There is practically no exact data on the features and differences of these creatures compared to later samples, but something can be said for sure:

• They were bipedal (dinosaurs with four legs appeared a little later, although the opposite situation would have looked logical).
• The creatures were quite large, mostly their growth reached 2-4 meters.
• All of them were cold-blooded. Because of this, the need for food, despite its impressive size, was not too great.
• At the initial stages of development, most likely, there were no flying species of these pangolins.

In general, humanity knows very little about this period. Most of the information is guesswork and theories based on various findings and circumstantial evidence. So things could be completely different.

The Last Dinosaurs

The size of the "terrible lizards" gradually increased, and this continued until about the end of the Jurassic period (this was about 145 million years ago). In the middle of their life cycle, dinosaurs reached enormous sizes (up to 12 meters in height and 1 ton of net weight). During the "reign" of these monsters, no other species simply could not even conditionally claim dominance on the planet. Even later, in the Cretaceous period (65 million years ago), the creatures began to shrink. According to some reports, they developed the beginnings of feathers, and even warm-blooded species arose. Judging by the available information, the number of predators has significantly decreased, and, accordingly, the number of herbivores has increased. As a result, rare hunters have become truly real "killing machines". They moved quickly, could cope with most opponents, had no shortage of food and were rightly considered at that time the pinnacle of evolution.

mass extinction

The situation with the disappearance of this type of living creatures is well shown in the cartoon "The History of Dinosaurs". Of course, there the information is more focused on children, but active volcanoes, drought, lack of food and other similar problems could really cause the complete extinction of the prehistoric rulers of the planet. According to the official version, it all started with a huge meteorite that fell somewhere in the region of present-day Mexico. Upon impact, a large amount of dust rose into the atmosphere, sharply lowering the temperature on the surface (a similar situation is called "nuclear winter" and can become a reality if countries try to solve their problems with nuclear weapons). Along the way, the impact on the Earth activated dormant volcanoes. As a result, the simultaneous impact of several factors at once led to the fact that the dinosaurs simply did not have time to adapt and almost completely died out within a short period. Most likely, individual individuals remained, but they could not survive in a new world in which other dominant species appeared. Many people think that this particular dinosaur story is for children. Allegedly, in fact, everything was completely different. Unfortunately, in the future, scientists disagree in their opinions, and no one can yet give a clear theory of how everything really happened.

A lot of intriguing and mysterious things are shown in the documentaries "History of Dinosaurs" from popular science channels. True, they cannot be called documentary, since there are no documents, but everything is reconstructed there very competently. Nevertheless, every year more and more discoveries are made that radically change the idea of ​​dinosaurs as such. Let's see what interesting facts the modern history of dinosaurs reveals to us.

• Despite the fact that, as it was believed, dinosaurs were almost a mistake of nature (too small brain, large weight, severely limited diet, and so on), they managed to dominate the planet for more than 130 million years. The history of man as such, if we take our more or less reasonable ancestors, is at best 100,000 years old. So it is not a fact that in the distant future some new species will not be considered a mistake of a modern person.
• Tyrannosaurus, known in many films and literature as the most terrible and huge dinosaur, in fact, was not one. There were even more creatures, however, unlike this predator, they were still not hunters.
• The history of dinosaurs is still silent about why a tyrannosaurus needs its small hands at all. Judging by the structure of the skeleton, he simply could not reach them anywhere. Even more mysterious is the fact that these hands had very well developed muscles.
• Stegosaurus plates were used primarily not to protect against predators, but to remove heat. That is, they played the role of a natural radiator, in one case cooling the huge dinosaur, and in the other helping it to accumulate heat more efficiently, which is extremely important for any cold-blooded creature.

Results

The history of dinosaurs is gradually overgrown with new data, some of which contradict each other or do not fit into existing theories. For example, it is believed that dinosaurs and humans could not have existed in the same period of history. Although there are very interesting finds, stones, on which ancient people quite reliably depicted the interaction of a person and a “terrible lizard”. As it was in reality, no one can say yet. We are not able to fully understand even our own history, to say nothing of what happened long before the appearance of man as such.