What if Dinosaurs Had Evolved Intelligence? - The Dinosauroid

What would have happened if non-bird dinosaurs had never been wiped out by an asteroid and continued to evolve? Well, one palaeontologist thought that they would have developed great intelligence and eventually evolved to look a lot like humans, giving rise to the 'dinosauroid' concept. Speculative zoology, or speculative evolution, is a fascinating topic and the dinosauroid is one of the most iconic examples.

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[vanillalemonfox]

"What if dinosuars became/were smart?"
Crows: *are we a joke to you?*

[anonymous-rbsr]

"Evolution doesnt have an end
Crabs:

[paulburney]

In the 1930s there was a competition in one of the Science Fiction magazines for the shortest Science Fiction story. The winning story was 8 words long. "Space exploring dinosaurs return. Want their oil back."

[Zveebo]

I feel like this was basically a therapy session with Ben confronting all of his terrifying dinosauroid childhood nightmares 😅

[tieck]

Corvids: "Am I a joke to you?"

[GGchannel]

I once met a race of humanoid dinosaurs, they were called "Penguins" or something like that.

[adjacent-smith]

"what if dinosaurs achieved human level intelligence"

David Icke: Am I a joke to you?

[hamsterratje]

Alternative titel: Ben shows his childhood nightmare, and tries to convince you it isn't real

[cartilagehead]

I love that in the “human + dinosauroid” society the dinosauroids don’t wear any clothes but the humans do

[johnclement]

Alternate universe : "What if monke have evolved in our level?."

[renivaldorodrigues]

There is an episode from the Doctor Who series with intelligent reptilians that survive the extinction event by sleeping underground and programming the "waking up" millions of years later in the human area.

[StManco]

"What if dinosaurs evolved intelligence"
-The guy who never had a parrot

[kleinjahr]

I find it interesting that the dinosauroids look remarkably like the depictions of Grey Aliens.

[LtAlguien]

The videogame "Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life" actually had a dinosauroid (called Saurosapien) that evolved from raptors, as the goal was to achieve human intelligence, it also had some no dinosaur ones like elephants, it even included "in between" equivalent to the australopitecus

[mrmackay]

I only just thought of this the other day. What if they did evolve, and the myths of ‘lizard people’, who live in hollow earth, are true. They are not aliens at all, they are in fact the dinosaurs that went underground to survive the meteorite attack.

[dr.polaris]

Ah yes the nightmarish dinosauroid, conjured from the dark imagination of Dale Russell.

[JackRowsey]

That reminds me of the Sleestack from “Land of the Lost”.

[robbleeker]

I never imagined how they would have evolved, but it has crossed my mind how the world would have looked like today if they would not have gotten extinct..

[FredstarOfBritain]

I came across the dinosauroid model in a dinosaur museum in Madrid, Spain.
It was something that was out of nowhere.

[andrewsuryali]

This is definitely the most disturbing Ben G. Thomas thumbnail ever...