Fallacy
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Fact
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| Dinosaurs coexisted
with prehistoric man. |
Prehistoric man appeared over 60 million years
after the extinction of the dinosaurs. |
| All dinosaurs
were enormous animals. |
Some dinosaurs such as Procompsognathus and
Echinodon were about 2 to 3 feet long. |
| Dinosaurs were
evolutionary failures. |
Dinosaurs developed into a great range of over
400 species during the Mesozoic.
A period of time lasting 186 million years! Current
research, however, lends strong support to the
idea that bird are living descendants of the dinosaurs. |
| All large Mesozoic
age reptiles were dinosaurs. |
Large reptiles such as Dimetrodon (sailback),
Pteranodon (flying reptile), and Megalneusaurus
(marine reptile) were not dinosaurs. |
| All dinosaurs
came from eggs. |
It is a good guess that most dinosaurs came
from eggs. Only two hadrosaurids,
a Troodon, an oviraptorid,
and a velociraptid have identifiable fossil evidence
showing they came from eggs. |
