• Question: if we create a species of dinosaur that can live in our conditions is it likely to kill all human life?

    Asked by anon-209824 to Verity, Sergio, Nick, Maria, David, Annette on 12 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Nick Werren

      Nick Werren answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Nope! Humanity actually came into contact with giant animals in the past (not dinosaurs though), these animals were known as megafauna. Many of them existed, however they all went extinct at around the same time – when humanity appeared.

      We believe that humanity killed most of the giant animals with spears and intelligence.

      Now that we have guns, bombs, and tanks, I don’t think we have much to fear from any kind of dinosaur. the only thing we have to worry about is each other!

    • Photo: Sergio Adan Bermudez

      Sergio Adan Bermudez answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Luckily for us, humans are more intelligent than dinosaurs and other big animals. Our lack of strength compared to them is far compensated by our great intelligence. We could use any kind of weapon, either biological or technological to eradicate them if needed!

    • Photo: David Whitworth

      David Whitworth answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      Nope, to be blunt, we have guns and sophisticated weapons, they have claws and teeth.

      As Nick said, we have come into contact with big animals before and survived. We also have a habit and wiping species out. There used to a giant cow species called aurochs that lived in Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia and we hunted them to extinction. We probably helped wipe out the Mammoths as well, and are slowly killing the whale and elephant populations as well.

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      Maria Walach answered on 14 Mar 2019:


      I highly doubt it.
      If you bumped into a hungry T-Rex or Velociraptor on your way to work though, it might try and have a nibble..depending on how shy it would be! Even if they existed though, humanity would make sure that they don’t take over areas where we live. Similarly, there used to be wild wolves running around the UK, but these don’t roam as freely anymore because of the danger to farming and pets!
      In the US and Canada for example they have bears, and they could easily kill a human if they wanted to, but most bears are too shy or live in remote areas where there are no humans.
      Similarly, we have foxes that do for example kill chickens if they can, but they wouldn’t go after a human because they are smart enough to know otherwise!

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