By Vincent Van Ross

Here today—gone tomorrow? Is that possible in the animal kingdom? Where have all the dinosaurs that ruled the earth for millions of years gone?

Were they driven to extinction? If so,…by whom? The Homo sapiens did not put up an appearance until 100,000 years ago. Who could have been more destructive than human beings? Or, is there a misreading with regard to the time of their extinction? Is man responsible for the decimation of dinosaurs after all?

Or, did they really vanish one fine morning after the great deluge as is being claimed? But, then, if they were there before the great deluge, Noah carried specimen of all living beings into his ark. Then, why didn’t they survive? Or, were they wiped out by some natural equivalent of nuclear weapons that science has overlooked?

Strange—isn’t it? Maybe they didn’t vanish completely. There are still some evolved species of pre-historic animals. The elephant have evolved from woolly mammoths. The rhinoceros which looks like a natural armored vehicle seems to have evolved from brontosaurus. The crocodile still looks like a prehistoric animal of the reptilian era.

From another standpoint, if we look at kangaroos and wallabies, it would appear that the dinosaurs did not vanish from the surface of planet earth after all. In fact, they might have evolved into a mammal—a marsupial. Look at the shape of their heads; look at their short foreleg; look at their long hind legs. And, look at their long winding tails. They match feature for feature with those of the tyrannosaurus.

That brings us to the moot point. If tyrannosaurus has evolved into the present day kangaroos and wallabies, where are the dinosaurs from which they have evolved? If man has evolved from apes and we still have apes roaming this earth, it means that part of the ape population has evolved into man whereas the rest of them have continued to be what they were. By the same token, if tyrannosaurus has evolved into kangaroos and wallabies, there must be some which have not evolved. Which continue to be in their original format? Where are they?

Where have all the dinosaurs gone?