Human-dinosaur coexistence

The pseudoscientific and pseudohistorical notion that non-avian dinosaurs and humans coexisted at some time in the past or still coexist in the present is common among Young Earth creationists and other groups.[1][2] Only through the definition that all birds are dinosaurs that descended from feathered theropods can the claim be made that humans and dinosaurs coexisted.[3]

During the Pliocene, archaic humans coexisted with terror birds but not with non-avian dinosaurs

Avialae

Mainstream science currently understands that all birds are dinosaurs that descended from feathered theropods.[4] By this broad and more technical sense of the word, humanity has coexisted with dinosaurs since the first humans appeared on Earth. However, in a narrow and more colloquial sense, the term "dinosaur" refers specifically to non-avian dinosaurs, all of which died out in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction about 66 million years ago, while the genus Homo emerged only about 3 million years ago, leaving a period of tens of millions of years between the last dinosaurs and the first humans.[5]

Fiction and mythology
A section of Nile mosaic of Palestrina (1st century BC) shows humans hunting a large reptile described by some proponents of this hypothesis as a dinosaur

Speculative fiction commonly portrays non-avian dinosaurs with humans. Examples include The Flintstones, in which Stone Age humans have dinosaurs as pets and transportation, and the comic series The Cavern Clan, in which the protagonist is a caveman who hunts dinosaurs, as well as in the comic strip Alley Oop. The coexistence has been present in works of alternative history in which dinosaurs do not go extinct, such as the Pixar movie The Good Dinosaur. Some proponents have claimed that mythological reptiles such as dragons and the Behemoth are historical descriptions of dinosaurs.[6][7][8]

Hoaxes

Some hoaxes presented as historical depictions of dinosaurs, such as the Ica stones, have been produced.[9]

See also

References
  1. "Did people and dinosaurs live at the same time? | U.S. Geological Survey". www.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  2. "Did Humans Live at the Same Time as Dinosaurs? | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  3. "Did Humans and Dinosaurs Ever Live Together?". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
  4. Prum, Richard O. Prum (19 December 2008). "Who's Your Daddy?". Science. 322 (5909): 1799–1800. doi:10.1126/science.1168808. PMID 19095929.
  5. "American Adults Flunk Basic Science". Science Daily. March 13, 2009. Archived from the original on April 2, 2014.
  6. Keil, C.F. and Delitzsch, F., Commentary on the Old Testament, Vol. IV, Job, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, p. 357, 1988.
  7. Hanson, A. and Hanson, M., The Book of Job, SCM Press, London, p. 112, 1953.
  8. Driver, S.R. and Gray, G.B., A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, Part II, p. 326, 1921.
  9. "Are the Ica stones authentic?". HowStuffWorks. 2015-04-07. Retrieved 2022-03-29.


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