If dinosaurs "evolved" into birds then how come on the Flinstones there were BOTH dinos AND birds?

Answer 1

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First rule of Hannah/Barbera--always keep them guessing.

Answer 2

that's cause the dinos that hadn't evolved hadn't died yet. when they dieid there were just birdies

Answer 3

Surely you jest.

Answer 4

Well the Flinstones was just a cartoon for entertainment, so the creators can put whatever they want on there, plus during the days of dinos there were no humans either.

Answer 5

think about this....
the flinstones are fictional characters, right?
your question should be, if humans evolved from monkeys then why are there still monkeys.
tricky tricky tricky

Answer 6

who said dinosaurs evolved into birds? they died after a huge asteriod crashed withing earth which eradicated 99% of earthling lives.

Answer 7

First of all, the Flintstones was not a natural history document, it was a highly fanciful and scientifically inaccurate cartoon. Do not look for science facts in entertainment, museums and libraries are far better for that purpose.

As for how birds could coexist with other dinosaurs, the reason is simple: as far as we know, only a single species of dinosaur evolved into all modern birds. Although it is possible there were birdlike flying animals evolved from several lineages of maniraptoran dinosaurs in the Jurassic and the Creatceous period, all surviving birds share the same ancestor.

Furthermore, the maniraptoran dinosaurs are only a small subset within the whole of dinosauria. While the bird-ancestor was evolving into a bird, a tyrannosaur ancestor was evolving into a tyrannosaur, a ceratopsid ancestor was evolving into a ceratopsid and so forth. All the different lineages were going into their separate ways, until all but the bird lineage became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. Some paleontologists even maintain that certain maniraptoran dinosaurs such as Velociraptor and Oviraptor may actually be early birds that became flightless.

So the statement "dinosaurs evolved into birds" is logically inaccurate if you assume it to mean all dinosaur species. Meanwhile the statement "birds evolved from a dinosaur" is accurate, far more exact, and a preferrable substitute for the former statement.

Source(s):

Paul, Gregory S. (2002). Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 472pp. ISBN 978-0801867637.

Answer 8

Please! Daft questions like this do no credit whatsoever to the serious scientists who have serious doubts about evolution, some of whom subscribe to the intelligent design theory instead.

If you MUST pose evolution/creation debate questions, at least make them sensible ones.

The Flintstones was a fictional cartoon. The writers could have chosen to have Fred flinstone ride a dinosaur to the moon and discover alien life forms if they wanted. It doesn't need to bear any relation to reality.