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>> NARRATOR: Ancient carvings,

depicting dinosaurs

with humans...

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Sometimes

the humans are even riding on

the back of dinosaurs.

>> NARRATOR: The fossilized

tracks of dinosaurs and man

discovered side by side...

>> DR. WILLIE E. DYE: We've

found human footprints,

dinosaurs and all types of

fossils that scientists tell us

that should not be in

the same level,

we find them coexisting.

>> NARRATOR: And high levels of

radiation found in the bones

of a tyrannosaurus rex.

>> MICHAEL BARA: The reason they

had to paint them with lead

paint is because they discovered

were very, very intensely

radioactive.

>> NARRATOR: Did the dinosaurs

fall victim to

a cosmic collision?

Or were they deliberately

killed off?

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Is it

possible that what we have here

was in fact not an extinction,

but a an extermination event?

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And if so, will science reveal

the connection between aliens

and dinosaurs?

>> NARRATOR: Oxfordshire,

England, 1819.

In a quarry just outside the

village of Stonesfield,

paleontologist William Buckland

discovers several fossilized

bones of an enormous unknown

animal, including portions of a

lower jaw with teeth

still in place.

Though similar bones had been

found in the past,

Dr. Buckland was the first

European to officially record

the discovery of a "dinosaur,"

or as he called it,

a megalosaurus.

Since then, dinosaurs have been

discovered on every continent

in the world.

>> LUIS CHIAPPE: There are all

kinds of dinosaurs that have

been found.

You have plated dinosaurs

like the stegosaurus,

you have horn dinosaurs, you

have meat‐eating dinosaurs, you

have all sorts of dinosaurs.

They live in very different

environments: deserts,

subtropical forests,

by the seashore.

>> MARK WILSON: There are over a

thousandcies of dinosaur

that we know, and no doubt

thousands more that

we don't know.

They ranged in size from

chicken‐size to the largest

land animals ever.

>> CHIAPPE: The largest land

animal that we see today is

the elephant.

But the elephant would be a

midget in comparison to one

of these titanosaurs.

You're talking an animal that

weighed maybe 25 times the

weight of an adult male

elephant.

These animals reached lengths

of about a 120 feet and weights

of a hundred tons.

The plant‐eaters would have been

dangerous simply because

of their size.

Walking in between a herd of

titanosaurs that weighed at a

hundred tons, you know, would

have been deadly, probably,

let alone being face‐to‐face

with a T rex.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: The dinosaur

really speaks to us.

Every child has his fascination

with dinosaurs, and we know that

they were able to fly.

We know that they are able

to frighten you.

They are, to some extent,

supernatural creatures.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: One of the

things with planet Earth was

that in ancient times,

everything was bigger and all

the animals were bigger and

plants were bigger.

Everything was gigantic.

>> CHIAPPE: The world of the

dinosaurs was completely

different from our world.

During the age of the dinosaurs,

many other animals lived.

You have giant reptiles swimming

in the ocean, flying reptiles

flying over the heads

of dinosaurs.

You also have insects, mammals,

amphibians and other creatures.

But dinosaurs were the king

of the land.

>> TSOUKALOS: We imagine in

science fiction what it would be

like to travel to an exotic,

exciting, strange alien world

where these giant creatures

roaming around the planet,

and it happened here on Earth

in our pre‐history.

>> NARRATOR: While scientists

have been studying dinosaur

fossils for nearly 200 years,

their theories about what these

giant creatures were and how

they lived often change with

each new discovery.

Recently, paleontologists have

determined that tyrannosaurus

rex was most likely covered not

with scales, but with feathers.

>> WILSON: We found feathers of

dinosaurs that are actually

preserved in amber, and so

dinosaurs, we now believe that

many, if not most of them, had a

feathery covering of some kind.

We know they had very complex

behaviors.

The eggs that we find show

that many dinosaurs made nests

on the ground that

they protected from predators,

and they brought food to the

developing young.

>> CHIAPPE: In the past, we

envisioned dinosaurs as

lethargic, gigantic reptiles

that were slow and sluggish.

That notion has changed

completely.

We interpret them now as being

much more active.

Many of them were feathered and

presumably they were

warm‐blooded.

We know that they grew

very fast.

Essentially dinosaurs were very

atypical reptile, if you want.

We still have a lot to learn

about the dinosaurs.

>> WILSON: It used to be easy

to define a dinosaur.

But defining a dinosaur has

become more complex.

>> NARRATOR: But while

paleontologists continue to

discover information on the

lives of dinosaurs, ancient

astronaut theorists believe

there may be an otherworldly

connection to their demise.

>> JASON MARTELL: When looking

at dinosaurs, there's some key

questions that really need

to be answered.

We don't know their level

of intelligence, we don't

really know what happened

to them.

More importantly, where

do they come from?

>> TSOUKALOS: Scientists truly

believe that dinosaurs ruled

this planet for

165 million years.

In comparison, modern homo

sapiens‐‐ humans‐‐ have only

been around for about

200,000 years.

So dinosaurs are by far the

dominant species in the history

of this Earth.

(roaring)

But in the early 1800's, if you

told someone the Earth used to

be teaming with giant beasts,

some of which weighed over a

hundred tons, that person would

say to you, "You're crazy."

And yet, today, the dinosaurs

are scientific fact.

Dinosaurs could very well have

been an early experiment by

extraterrestrials with life

on Earth.

This planet has been capable of

supporting life for millions if

not billions of years.

>> NARRATOR: The accepted belief

within the scientific community

is that dinosaurs dominated the

planet until a catastrophic

event wiped them out

65 million years ago.

>> CHIAPPE: There was a mass

extinction that essentially

exterminated maybe 50%

of what was alive.

Among the 50% are the

last dinosaurs that lived during

the age of the dinosaurs.

Things like triceratops, T rex.

>> COPPENS: We are speculating,

and we have seen science trying

to come up with answers, and so

how the dinosaur disappeared is

something which is still an open

question to which science has

no answer so far.

>> TSOUKALOS: It is possible

that extraterrestrials may have

wanted to trade out the

dinosaurs for a more

intelligent species in their

likeness... and Earth was the

perfect place to do it.

>> NARRATOR: Were the dinosaurs

killed off by a cosmic natural

event as mainstream

scientists believe?

Or might the dinosaurs have been

the target of extermination?

Perhaps the answer may be found

by examining numerous ancient

carvings and other artworks ‐‐

in which dinosaurs and man

are shown to have coexisted.

>> NARRATOR: Planet Earth...

65 million years ago.

An eight‐mile‐wide asteroid

hurtles towards the planet at

approximately 12 miles per

second and strikes the region

now known as the Yucatan

Peninsula...

with a force of

100 million megatons of TNT.

According to mainstream science,

this catastrophic event forever

changed the climate and the

topography of Earth and ended

the reign of the dinosaurs.

>> DAVID MORRISON: The object

that came in was eight or ten

miles in diameter.

That impact dug a deep hole,

lofted material into the

atmosphere, black dust, which

shrouded the planet in darkness

for months, maybe for

a couple of years.

>> MARK A. WILSON: There would

have been a time in which the

sunlight was simply shut out

from the Earth's surface, and

photosynthetic organisms, like

plants, would begin to die.

>> FRANKLIN RUEHL: The plant‐

eating dinosaurs would have

nothing to eat and would

have died off.

The meat‐eating dinosaurs would

then have nothing to eat either,

and this might've lasted

anywhere from five to ten years.

How quickly the extinction took

place is a matter of debate.

>> NARRATOR: But is it possible

that some species of dinosaur

actually survived this

cataclysmic event?

And not only survived but

thrived for several thousands,

or even millions, of years?

Perhaps clues can be recovered

near a crater where scientists

believe the giant asteroid

struck the Earth: right in the

heart of what is now the Yucatan

Peninsula.

Today, less than 90 miles from

the epicenter of the

asteroid impact, lies one of

the largest and best‐preserved

cities of the ancient Maya:

Chichen Itza.

>> CHILDRESS: You have to

wonder if it's not some strange

coincidence that the same spot,

the Yucatan, which experienced

this devastating asteroid

strike, which caused extinction

of the dinosaurs, is also the

main habitation area of the

ancient Maya.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: Chichen Itza

is said to be the place where

the Mayans made contact with

the gods.

And I find it an extraordinary

coincidence of all the potential

places around the Gulf of

Mexico, which they could've

chosen, they took a place where

literally something fell from

the sky 65 million years ago.

And the Mayans believed that

this contact with the gods, this

contact with the sky, happened

there, up until the most recent

of times.

And so, what we have here is

either a coincidence or

something else going on.

And, really, this something

else is only something, which

hardly anybody has touched

upon, but I think it is

something which really needs to

be explored in far more detail.

>> CHILDRESS: In the Mayan

area and other areas of Mexico,

there are curious depictions of

dinosaurs.

There's pterosaurs.

There's a famous dinosaur that

appears on one of the paintings

at Bonampak.

So you have to wonder just how

the Mayans knew about dinosaurs.

Supposedly, dinosaurs have been

extinct for millions of years.

>> NARRATOR: But if, as

mainstream scientists believe,

the dinosaurs had been

extinct for millions of years

before the evolution of mankind

on this planet, then what would

explain the wealth of Mayan art

depicting interactions between

humans and what appear to be

dinosaurs‐‐ found in the very

area where they supposedly

died off?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe that additional evidence

can be found in northern

Cambodia, at one of the largest

temple complexes in the world:

Angkor Wat.

Here, among the intricate stone

carvings that adorn the walls of

the sacred site, researchers

have been fascinated by numerous

images of animals that

supposedly roamed the region

where the temple was built.

But one, depicting what appears

to be a dinosaur, has

archaeologists and scholars

scratching their heads.

>> MARK A. WILSON: There's a

temple called Ta Prohm, and it

has a series of medallions that

are carved into its surface and

one medallion in particular has

attracted attention because it

looks like a stegosaurus.

And so some have cited this as

an example of a dinosaur that

lived into historical times.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: It's a

stegosaurus not as a skeleton,

but it's a stegosaurus with its

skin and muscles, as if somebody

saw it while it was alive.

So how is it possible that the

artist was able to carve

something like this?

Did they receive the knowledge

of something like this?

>> LUIS CHIAPPE: There is no

doubt that ancient civilizations

must have encountered dinosaur

remains.

Many of them lived in areas

where dinosaurs are very

abundant and I'm sure they found

them here and there.

I think that the fact that they

have incorporated what appears

to be dinosaurs in their

artistic depictions speaks of an

attempt to interpret them.

How exactly they interpret them,

I don't believe is clear.

Even 200 years ago, we had a

hard time figuring out how

the bones of dinosaurs fit

together.

>> NARRATOR: What could explain

the ancient builders of

Angkor Wat having such a

sophisticated knowledge

of dinosaur anatomy?

Could it be, as many ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

that their knowledge came

firsthand, as the result of

actual interaction?

>> NARRATOR: The Tsodilo Hills,

Northern Botswana, Africa.

Here, in 2001, archaeologists

discover what many believe to be

the world's oldest‐known

religious artifact: a 20‐foot‐

long serpentine rock carving,

made over 70,000 years ago, by

the ancient San People.

>> DAVID ICKE: Serpent worship

is one of the oldest known

form of religious worship.

And it's absolutely everywhere

that you look.

>> NARRATOR: But might the

enormous scale of the

serpent's head, measuring

six‐and‐a‐half feet tall,

suggest that the carving

represented not a python...

but a dinosaur?

>> MICHAEL BARA: There's a lot

of ancient artwork that clearly

shows a actual reptilian species

being worshiped by humans.

Some sort of reptilian presence

that was here on the Earth in

the ancient past.

>> TSOUKALOS: The question is,

is it possible that our

ancestors saw something that

they tried to imitate and the

answer is a resounding yes.

>> COPPENS: Whenever it comes

to evidence of the possibility

that dinosaurs and mankind

existed, each time science has

tried to explain it away.

But we know the archeological

evidence really suggests that it

is not that straightforward.

It is definitely possible that

our earliest ancestors

met dinosaurs.

>> NARRATOR: Might ancient

depictions of dinosaurs really

be proof that humans and

dinosaurs did, at one time,

coexist?

According to mainstream

scientists, the notion is not

only incredible, but downright

impossible.

Unless, of course, they are

confronted with evidence

in the form of a fossilized

footprint of a dinosaur, side by

side with that of a human being.

>> NARRATOR: Dinosaur Valley

State Park.

Glen Rose, Texas.

Here, in 1930, Roland T. Bird,

field explorer for the

American Museum, reported

finding "clearly defined" human

footprints alongside dinosaur

tracks in the same exposed layer

of riverbed limestone.

>> MICHAEL CREMO: Some

researchers found human

footprints alongside the

footprints of dinosaurs.

There is other evidence, from

other parts of the world, that

shows that human beings like us

were present during the time of

the dinosaurs.

>> DYE: We've found human

footprints, dinosaurs and all

types of fossils that scientists

tell us that should not be in

the same level as man, but we

find them coexisting.

>> COPPENS: Now, we have never

thought about this because

science has told us that there

are 65 million years between us

and them.

But there is, again,

archaeological and geological

evidence to suggest that this is

not the case.

There are footprints which show

ancestors of ours and dinosaurs

in the same stratum.

>> NARRATOR: Could these

fossilized footprints really be

evidence that, at some point,

humans actually coexisted

with dinosaurs?

According to mainstream

scientists, the fossil evidence

found at Dinosaur Valley is

inconclusive at best.

>> RUEHL: There are three basic

dinosaur eras‐‐ the Triassic,

Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Actually, these were named not

for the dinosaurs, but for the

various rock structures that

were found at that time.

The Triassic dates back about

250 to 200 million years ago;

the Jurassic, 200 to 135 million

years ago; and the final, the

Cretaceous, 135 to 65 million

years ago.

>> COPPENS: It is simply

impossible to say that every

single dinosaur of planet Earth

completely disappeared, and the

likelihood is that at least some

definitely survived for at least

several more million years.

>> NARRATOR: The most widely

used scientific method to

determine the age of fossils is

by a process known as

carbon dating‐‐ a technique

that measures the rate of

decay and radioactivity in

an organic object.

>> BEN FIRMSTON: Carbon‐14, it's

not a stable isotope, so it

decays over time, whereas the

C‐12, carbon‐12, does not decay,

so by measuring the two against

each other, we're able to get

very general age.

>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: In order to

do carbon dating, you need

organic material.

You need wood or bone‐‐

something that lived.

A piece of stone can't be

carbon‐dated, and often,

archaeologists are reduced to

finding something under that

piece of stone, which is

organic, and dating that, and

then making the assumption, not

necessarily correct, that the

carving of the stone dates

to the period of the thing

under it.

>> MICHAEL CREMO: For objects

that are millions of years old,

there is no scientific method

that will allow us to date the

object or bone itself.

They have to date the dinosaur

bone according to the age of the

deposits in which it is found.

There are methods that will

allow them to date these

deposits.

>> COPPENS: Carbon dating

results don't get published in

peer review journals.

We have so many things happening

in the world of science whereby

it is clear that scientists are

playing a game.

And so this notion that somehow

dinosaurs completely disappeared

65 million years ago is now

something which science as such

is really beginning to push

holes in, as well.

>> CHRISTOPHER BUSBY: Carbon

dating assumes that the

concentration of radiocarbon,

carbon‐14, is always a constant.

And I think this is an

assumption which may not be...

may not be true, because

carbon‐14 is produced as a

result of certain cosmic ray

interactions in the atmosphere.

But if those cosmic ray

interactions changed in the

past, which they may well have

done, then the production of

carbon‐14 that is present in the

atmosphere at the time when it

was fixed in whatever it is that

are being tested, will have not

been the same as it is now.

>> NARRATOR: But if the fossil

evidence of dinosaurs cannot be

reliably dated, might some bones

actually be from a time

thousands, or even millions, of

years after paleontologists

believe they became extinct?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer is yes, and

they point to additional

evidence found in South America.

Ica, Peru.

Here, in 1961, workers in the

Ocucaje Desert unearthed a

collection of carved andesite

stones, many depicting what

appear to be human encounters

with dinosaurs.

And since then, approximately

50,000 of these mysterious

stones have been found across

the region.

>> VON DANIKEN: I have

photographed some hundreds of

them in a collection in the city

of Ica.

And there was an old professor,

Dr. Caprera.

The Indians brought him stones

from all over the country of

Peru, and on these stones is

these fantastic engravings.

>> NARRATOR: Peruvian physician

Javier Cabrera began researching

what have become known as the

Ica stones in 1966.

Ranging in size from small

pebbles to large boulders,

Dr. Cabrera's museum preserves

over 20,000 of the strange

rock carvings.

>> VON DANIKEN: All dinosaurs

died about 60 millions of years

ago, so normally, no human

being should ever have seen

a dinosaur.

But there are wonderful

pictures, engravings on stone,

where you see humans and

dinosaurs together.

Sometimes the humans are even

riding on the back of the

dinosaurs.

>> DYE: What we have here is an

Ica burial stone, which is very

unique, and what it depicts is

that man and dinosaurs lived

contemporaneously.

We see the various triceratops,

brachiosaurus and T. rex‐‐

those type of creatures.

So these Icas had to either see

them or they knew a lot more

about the dinosaurs, because

they drew them precisely.

>> NARRATOR: Although many

ancient astronaut theorists

believe the stones date from the

fifth century BC to the early

13th century AD, there are those

in the scientific community

who remain skeptical about

their origin.

But consider this‐‐ just the

enormous number of stones would

have required that an artist

carve more than 1,000 of them

a year every year for 45 years.

But even if the Ica stones are

proven to be real, more

questions remain.

What happened to the dinosaurs?

Did they simply get hunted to

extinction?

If so, by whom?

And why?

>> COPPENS: Imagine a period

in time when there are very

few human beings about on

this planet.

And maybe there are dinosaurs

about.

These beings could easily kill

our ancestors.

If our ancestors were in an

environment where there were

dinosaurs, this would be the

greatest threat to their

survival.

>> NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs

have proven to be too big...

too territorial...

or simply too deadly for mankind

to allow their survival?

Or was their demise part of a

larger plan, not by humans,

but by otherworldly beings,

as many ancient astronaut

theorists speculate?

And they believe further

evidence can be found in the

study of Earth‐threatening

asteroids.

>> NARRATOR: The United States

Capitol, 1992.

Congress authorizes funding for

the Spaceguard program, a global

network of telescopes designed

to scan the skies for

Earth‐threatening asteroids.

As of 2011, NASA has identified

approximately 10,000 near‐Earth

objects that could potentially

hit our planet.

>> MORRISON: Of all the natural

hazards that we know of‐‐

earthquakes, volcanoes,

hurricanes, typhoons‐‐ the

impact hazard, the possibility

of us being hit by a comet or

asteroid, is the only one we

can eliminate.

You could never stop an

earthquake or a volcano.

But if we had a decade, two

decades warning of an object

that might hit the Earth, we

do have the technology, at least

in principle, to send a

spacecraft out and give it a

nudge and just slightly change

its orbit so it misses.

>> TSOUKALOS: If we can control

the trajectories of asteroids

to direct them away from Earth,

then it's certainly possible

that highly advanced

extraterrestrials could have had

the technology to direct an

asteroid towards Earth.

>> RUEHL: Did advanced E. T.'s

direct an asteroid to that spot?

It's within the realm of

feasibility that advanced E. T.'s

indeed directed an asteroid to

the Yucatan Peninsula.

>> CHIAPPE: The question is:

Was the impact enough to trigger

the extinction?

And that's what's controversial.

Some people believe that that

was enough; some people

believe that it wasn't.

>> NARRATOR: For decades,

mainstream scientists believed

that the asteroid that may have

been responsible for wiping

out the dinosaurs was a fragment

of a giant asteroid called

Baptistina.

But on September 19, 2011, NASA

concluded that the deadly

asteroid may have had a

different origin.

>> MORRISON: Some people think

that they can guess what the

origin was of the object that

hit us 65 million years ago.

Others disagree.

We simply don't have

enough data.

>> NARRATOR: But if the asteroid

did not break off of Baptistina,

where did it come from?

And is it possible, as some

ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that the object may not

have been an asteroid, but an

extraterrestrial weapon?

>> RUEHL: Perhaps the extinction

was triggered by advanced

E.T.'s.

Specifically, they might have

used something to destroy

the dinosaurs.

>> NARRATOR In 1980, physicist

Luis Alvarez discovered a thin,

global layer of sediment nearly

65 million years old that

contains high levels of iridium,

an element not naturally found

on Earth.

>> MORRISON: Those materials

probably came from an asteroid.

They could have come from

a comet.

But they definitely came from

somewhere in the solar system

far beyond the Earth and moon.

>> NARRATOR: Iridium is believed

to be deposited on Earth by

celestial masses like meteors,

comets and asteroids.

But the rare element can also be

introduced into the atmosphere

as a byproduct of something

else.

Fallout from a nuclear weapon.

But could the Earth's iridium

layer be physical proof that

advanced nuclear weapons had at

one time devastated our planet?

And might they have been

deliberately deployed in an

effort to wipe out the

dinosaurs?

>> BARA: Most people don't

realize that most of the T.

rex skeletons that are on

display at various museums

around the world‐‐ for instance

the Field Museum in Chicago has

these dinosaur skeletons, these

T. rex skeletons, and they're

painted with a very specific

high‐density lead paint.

Now, the reason they had to

paint them with lead paint is

because when they discovered the

bones of these T. rexes,

they discovered that they were

very, very intensely

radioactive.

>> NARRATOR: But if dinosaurs

really fell victim to a nuclear

attack, might there be some sort

of tangible evidence?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the evidence does, in

fact, exist‐‐ in the pages of

the ancient Hindu texts.

>> MARTELL: We can look into the

ancient Indian texts like the

Mahabharata, and there are clear

stories that describe lizards of

various sizes‐‐ some even the

size of buildings‐‐ that were

all mass‐exterminated.

And it was because of the angry

gods.

Now, we can look at this and say

it's mythology, or was there

some type of mass

extinction‐level event caused by

ancient aliens?

>> CREMO: If we look at the

records left in the ancient

Sanskrit writings of India, we

see descriptions of weapons

resembling modern atomic

weapons.

We also see descriptions of

advanced technology, such as

spacecraft.

>> TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata

and other sacred Indian texts,

we can read that weapons of mass

destruction were used that were

brighter than a thousand suns

when they were deployed.

And afterwards, silence fell

over the affected land.

If nuclear weapons were

deployed, the only logical

conclusion is that their origin

was in fact extraterrestrial.

Is it possible that what we have

here was in fact not an

extinction, but an extermination

event?

>> NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs

really have been exterminated by

extraterrestrial beings, as some

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

And if so, could it be that

some of them have in fact

survived to this day?

There are those who believe the

answer is yes and that the

evidence can be found in the

creatures that exist right

before our eyes.

>> NARRATOR: Solnhofen, Germany.

1861.

Archaeologists discover a

strange fossil embedded in

limestone.

Its features clearly identify it

as a dinosaur, but with one

exception: it has wings.

They called it Archeopteryx, or

"ancient wing."

>> CHIAPPE: Archaeopteryx‐‐

it's like the‐the Mona Lisa of

the fossil world.

It's an animal that lived about

150 million years ago.

It had a long bony tail, big

claws, teeth in its mouth.

It was a small animal.

It was certainly a flyer.

>> WILSON: We don't know

anything about feathers before

then.

But we certainly see in

Archaeopteryx that has feathers

that are designed for flying.

>> RUEHL: Now, the feathers may

have been for warmth, they may

have been for display to attract

mates or perhaps to help them

move faster when either chasing

prey or being pursued

themselves.

The evidence appears to be very

strong, because there are

actually over 100 anatomical

characteristics that are similar

to birds and dinosaurs.

And one theory is that T. rex,

for example, has relatives

today among chickens and

ostriches.

>> CHIAPPE: Nowadays, it's very

well accepted that dinosaurs are

not extinct.

If you consider that we live

with 10,000 species of living

birds, that means 10,000 species

of living dinosaurs.

So many primitive birds that are

very dinosaur‐like, these ar

all missing links, if you want.

>> NARRATOR: To date,

Archaeopteryx is the only

species of dinosaur

paleontologists believe capable

of flight.

But if this is the only flying

dinosaur ever discovered, how is

it, as ancient astronaut

theorists argue, that all modern

birds could have stemmed from

this one creature?

And how is it possible that

birds and certain reptiles with

dinosaur genes were able to

evolve?

>> VON DANIKEN: According to

evolution, all dinosaurs died

out about 60 millions of years.

First, there are many

speculations what the reason is.

It was said that it was an

impact maybe created by a

meteorite.

But if this would be true, why

only the dinosaurs died?

It should be that all kind of

animal were killed on Earth if

you have a meteorite impact.

So that's not the case.

So the question is: why only the

dinosaurs died?

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: Some

creatures that we are familiar

with have survived from very

long ago: cockroaches,

crocodiles, sharks, lizards.

So the possibility exists that

there are some that we have not

seen that may live at the very

deep part of the ocean or in

unexplored lakes.

We don't know.

>> RUEHL: We have a number of

reports of lake monsters around

the world.

The most famous, of course, Loch

Ness in Scotland.

Are these dinosaurs that

actually survived the

devastation from 65 million

years ago and found an

ecological niche to survive in?

For skeptics who believe that

the dinosaurs died out 65

million years ago, I point to

the case of the coelacanth.

This is a so‐called fossil fish

that was discovered off the

coast of Madagascar back in

1938.

Now, it was believed extinct for

millions of years.

It actually predated the

dinosaurs.

This is a large fish about five

to six feet in length and 100

pounds.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the so‐called evolutionary

offspring of dinosaurs are a

result of extraterrestrial

intervention, as many ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

And if so, how and why?

Some believe the answers can be

found in the very bones of the

dinosaurs themselves.

In 2005, paleontologist Mary

Schweitzer publishes a

groundbreaking study concerning

the fractured leg bone of a

Tyrannosaurus rex, one presumed

to be almost 70 million years

old.

Here, Schweitzer discovered the

remains of blood vessels and

what appeared to be whole cells.

Her discovery contradicted what

most mainstream scientists had

long believed about the

perishable nature of the soft

body tissue of dinosaurs.

>> CHIAPPE: I think that the

possibility of finding proteins

or portions of DNA, say, in

animals that lived hundreds of

millions of years ago is

certainly exciting because

it opens up a world of

paleogenetics, a world in which

we can look at the genetic

structure of this ancient

organism in a way that

we haven't been able to do thus

far.

>> RUEHL: Now, the current

thinking has been that

everything of a soft nature like

that would've been ossified and

would not exist today.

Her research apparently shows

that there could be DNA samples

inside dinosaur fossils that

could be extracted and it could

be used to actually recreate one

or more dinosaurs, to actually

give us a real Jurassic Park.

>> NARRATOR: If scientists are

getting closer to extracting

viable DNA from dinosaur

fossils, is it possible, as

ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that extraterrestrials

may have pioneered this

technique thousands, or perhaps

millions, of years ago?

And might they have manipulated

that genetic material to make

dinosaurs into numerous smaller,

and arguably more manageable,

species?

>> TSOUKALOS: I think it is

possible that the coelacanth

survived due to a direct

guarantee by extraterrestrials.

That they might have saved the

coelacanth DNA and reintroduced

the coelacanth into the world's

oceans millions of years after

it was extinct.

And the same counts for

crocodiles and turtles and all

of those animals that we know of

today that have survived from

the age of the dinosaurs.

>> CHIAPPE: It's very difficult

to say what would have happened

if the large dinosaurs of the

Mesozoic era didn't become

extinct.

But there's no doubt that the

world as we know it today, in my

opinion, must have been forged

by the disappearance of the

dinosaurs.

>> VON DANIKEN: Maybe it was

made on purpose by

extraterrestrials simply because

if the dinosaurs would have

survived, they would have

overtaken the planet Earth, and

that was not in their plan.

It was in their plan to create

something like themselves, a

human‐like being.

So the dinosaurs were not

helpful in this game.

>> NARRATOR: Might the

extinction of dinosaurs have

actually been a planned

extermination by

extraterrestrials?

And could some dinosaurs have

actually survived the event and

even coexisted with man and

still exist in another form?

Perhaps the answers lie buried

in every region of our globe.

Because the more we learn about

dinosaurs, the closer we may

come to discovering the truth

about the extraterrestrial

nature of the strangest

creatures that ever lived on

Planet Earth: ourselves.

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