[Waterluvian]

I’m not sure this is what you meant, but onto a tangent:

I feel like us humans have deeply romanticized dinosaurs as these incredibly dangerous, vicious, aggressive creatures. And I’m just not sure there’s any evidence to support that.

If we unearthed bear skeletons a million years from now, we’d think that humans couldn’t cohabitate with bears. Such size. Those teeth. The claws! But bears generally steer clear of humans. Perhaps dinosaurs would too.

Of course I barely know what I’m talking about. But it has me quite curious.

[hprotagonist]

"we can't prove they weren't huge fatbirds!" https://imgur.com/gallery/rmad4

[causi]

I hate this recent trend of shitting on paleoartists as if they have no idea what they're doing. Many species of dinosaurs had feathers. Thus far there's no evidence T. Rex did. If it did, they wouldn't be a huge coat like that due to thermal consequences.

[zuminator]

At the very least we had no particular reason to assume dinos had the canonical stone colored skin with no markings.

[rembicilious]

I find that equally terrifying. I’ve seen firsthand what happens to a frog when it hops into a coop of 7 chickens

[Salgat]

Humans and their ancestors were strong enough that anything that evolved alongside them adapted to avoid humans or risk extinction. I'm not sure if human evolution from a simple mammal could survive alongside dinosaurs long enough to reach the point where we could effectively defend ourselves. I imagine we'd mostly be stuck either being small enough to evade them or stuck hiding in trees off the ground.

[0x0nyandesu]

It's a weird assumption that something like a Trex would even bother with a scrawny human with barely any meat on it when there's much more meat to be had from other dinos.

[jawarner]

Chickens eat bugs. It's not so far off.

[roenxi]

It seems a bit optimistic to say that humans are willing to cohabitate with bears. If there are bears in a human population centre they will be exterminated.

Ignoring a different climate humans probably could have existed at the same time as dinosaurs. We would also have all-but wiped out anything larger than us by now though.

[Waterluvian]

A lot of Canada cohabitates with bears.

Naturally our existence stresses and displaces them. But they’re there and you see them in the news quite regularly. Except for places like cottage country where their presence in your garbage isn’t news worthy.

[virtue3]

black bears all over the NE USA and cohabitate. You just gotta chase em out of your garbage sometimes.