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Peacocks are Descendants of Dinosaurs. (Say what?!)

Peacocks are Descendants of Dinosaurs

What we were taught in school about dinosaurs has changed immensely over the last decade or so. In fact, there have been holes in our theories of how the dinosaurs came to an end since they first were thought up! So let's get some of the facts before riding in with our theories, aye?

In the mid-1990's, archeologists began to find fossils of dinosaurs with well preserved feathers. Since then, there has been over 20 species of dinosaurs containing evidence of having feathers. Scientists now believe that peacocks and chickens are direct descendants of dinosaurs as are reptiles. We now believe that the large majority of dinosaurs had feathers, not scales.

Everyone laughs at the Christians who believe the world is only 6,000 years old and that humans co-existed with the dinosaurs; but did you know that in the 1940's there were thousands of stones being discovered where humans had accurately depicted dinosaurs? They are called the Ica Stones for where the majority of them have been discovered and preserved. However, you can find these depictions in many civilizations through out the world. Some of these depictions are in caves, and others are carved into beautifully etched stones that hold up temples of religions long ago. The basic math suggests this is no hoax. If it was, one artist would have to etch 1,000 stones every single day for around 32 years. That is how many of these have been discovered.

Since the Ica Stones blows the massive extinction of dinosaurs right out of the water, a number of theories arise from all of this outside of the possibility of humans co-existing with them. When the bones of dinosaurs were first beginning to be discovered, they had to be sealed with a very heavy coat of lead paint because they were still highly radioactive. Our theory of a massive asteroid came from this evidence as what else can create such immense amounts of radioactivity when their bones have been subjected to time and elements of the earth? One theory plotted by alien-believers is that aliens may have nuked our planet to make way for human beings as dinosaurs were not an intelligent species, or as capable of evolution as us, and having allowed them to live would have made it impossible for us.

Another theory is that dinosaurs still live today (and no, I am not talking about the birds and the snakes); for instance, the Lock Ness monster. There are giant fossil fish that we once thought were extinct.

And if that isn't crazy enough, the movie Jurassic Park is being brought to reality. Yes, it's true. Scientists are now finding enough soft tissue in certain dinosaur remains to develop genetic profiles to compare to living species, but to also have a better idea of how they came to extinction. The first genetic profile efforts were made from living fossil fish. Seeing these creatures in real life would be pretty awesome, but it wouldn't offer us too many answers to the questions we have about them as most species DNA is only available in the bones and not good candidates for genetic profiling.