How come the dinosaurs never left any writing behind...

How come the dinosaurs never left any writing behind? They ruled the world for millions of years and didnt even have a written language. Were the dinosaurs black?

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They had trouble writing because of their morphology.

Are we in fucking kindergarten?

Nah I dont teach on sundays. But think about it. How far have humans come in our short time on earth and you trying to say that in the millions of years the dinosaurs were here they couldnt even write come on man they was black level stupid.

Hourly reminder that dinosaurs were the original nobility and mammals were slave tier rodents.

We evolved from the jews of the animal kingdom

Dinosaurs and birds are one and the same. They still exist.

Would we know that though? How long until every trace of their civilization is driven under the continental plate? Would any writing survive at all through 70 million years of erosion and tectonic activity? I read that book Life after People and it seemed pretty much every trace of our civilization will be turned to dust in under a million years, so what would be left of a potential dino civ?

I can tell that this is going to be a great thread :^)

do dinos have feathers
should we get Veeky Forums in here to answer the question of feathered dinos
were dinos feathers fashionable

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We have no current evidence to suggest a genus of Dinosaur was ever sentient, we have plenty of evidence to suggest their most complex brain cases could house something as complex as a chicken's, or perhaps even an eagle's or parrot's.

Beyond this, there is no evidence to suggest it, and likely there never will be. Again, given the evidence the most complex is on par with modern birds, which makes sense.

What does this even mean.

were the feathers on dinos cool or did they look silly like giant turkeys

It depends on what you can gather from this.

i'm leaning towards cool but the pose definitely helps.

>tfw no adorable giant feathery T-Rex best friend

> How come the dinosaurs never left any writing behind?
> Expecting papers to remain after millions of years
You're dumb, even for a troll.

THEY DID! BUT THEN CAME EVIL MAMMALS AND OPPRESSED THEM AND STOLE THEIR SPECIAL POWERS AND MINDS!

Even if, and this is basically impossible, Dinosaurs ever had a "sentient" genus, who said they would ever even have a form of writing? Throughout a majority of human history, we've never had writing. Our hands are more developed for the task, Avians have to use a combination of both their limbs and mouths to manipulate objects.

So IF this were ever even plausible, we have another problem. Dinosaurs, unlike what you've been told, did not roar, or make complex loud vocalizations. The issue stems from the fact all Dinosaurs did not have voice boxes in their necks, there simply was never enough space to house one, throughout their anatomy given millions and millions of years. A modern example is the crocodilian, a close relative of the Dinosaurs, they have the same issue; they make largely lower frequency unheard grunts and hisses and moans, deeper sounds. Those that did evolved ways to over come this issue, did so in their own ways. Parasaurolophus as a genus for example, grew an air hollow similar to a trumpet to communicate in at least a basic way. The larger the animals got the more the problem. You're more likely to have a silent Tyrannosaurus that stalks its prey than a boistrous one that roars. More likely to have a silent maniraptor that kicks trees and flaps its wings, splashes in water than one that screeches.

So our hypothetical genus of Dinosaur would have to rely mostly on non-verbal communication. It gets harder for sentience to become a possibility, even outside of brain case inability to support a human mind parallel.

And they still shit all over us.

imagine that you travelled to the past were dinosaurs ruled the world
imagine if you talked to them and said "hey, millions of years in the future, we are going to use your rotten remains to fuel our computers in order to post anime on the internet".
how would they react???????

How does a finch react when you try to tell it that it has a limited lifespan.

AYO

it flies away, either the flinch sees me as a potential predator, or is unable to face the truth.

it posits that since it is the only thing that it can prove exists, there is no reason to believe it will die.

>man we wuz dinasors n shiet man my great grandfather was a tyrannosaurus i'm like two thirds t rex man you know dem mammals stole walkin on two legs from us we invented that shit
>we could roar too
>an fly
>man fuck yall imma go bask in the sun

Yes, yes, we're all extinct, good mammal.

This is what a sentient Dinosaur would probably look like

Not...that

dinofag here, it depends on your definition of feather there was 3 basic stages in feather evolution. fuzz, quills and pennaceous feathers

The quills quills on psittacosaurus(an ancestor of triceratops) indicate feathers of some form were a trait that evolved very early in the dinosaur line at least before 231 million years ago but fully birdlike feathers only evolved within raptors.

the rule of thumb is if it's big it probably didn't have lots of/if any feathers the only notable exceptions are Concavenator and Yutyrannus
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The dinosaurs had no need for written word. For they remembered all of their days and records until the very day they died! So good was their memory that they could quote each other's famous words from years back, do advanced equations without jotting notes or teaching, and held such vast imaginations their young could be taught only by strong words to guide their minds alone. Their legends filled with awe and deeds of the great that would make the norse sagas look like a day of commute to the office.

They were truly the greatest.