The Dinosaurs Had A 64 Million Year Head Start.

Stenonychosaurus ha? been credited with ?eing the most intelligent dinosau?. Compared with mo?t others, it ?ad a r?latively larg? brain, altho?gh t?e exc?ss b?ain volume ?as probably not conc?rned ?ith reasoning ?nd oth?r activities th?t could ?e c?lled "intelligence."

Stenonychosaurus had large eyes, slender fle?ible fingers, and ? light body. The b?ain was proba?ly concerned mainly with ?ts highly developed sense?, fine ?ontrol of its limbs, and fast reflexes, w?ich ?ere used ?n hunting small and el?sive prey.

In 1982 Dal? Russell and R. S_guin (Ottawa) published an article on Stenonychosaurus. A new partial sk?leton ?ad be?n disco?ered ?n 1967 ?hich ?rovided t?e ?asis of the first skeletal and flesh re?toration of Stenonychosaurus. The detail?d wor? of building th? model w?s illustrated in their paper.

In addition to the restoration, the? indulged ?n an imaginative experiment, posing ? qu?stion: What might these intelligent dinos?urs have evolved into ?ad th?y not become ext?nct near the ?nd of th? Cretaceous period abo?t 64 million years ago?

Stenonychosaurus proved to be ?n interesting choi?e for the ex?eriment ?ecause it wa? on? of t?e largest-brained and therefo?e presuma?ly one of the most intell?gent of all dinosaurs. The result of the ?xperiment wa? ? creature named "dinosauroid."

One interpretation of the habits of Stenonychosaurus is th?t they were lightly built active hunters ?f s?all p?ey_perhaps small lizards and mammals. The long grasping hands, ?nd the large eyes ?hich point?d p?rtly forward and therefore g?ve ?easonably stereoscopic vision, ma? ?ndicate that these wer? nimble predators which were active at dusk o? even at n?ght when m?ny small nocturnal mam?als w?uld have been acti?e.

Dinosauroid was constructed b? extra?olating f?om thes? attributes. It was visual?zed as ? hig?ly intelligent and manipulative dinosa?r. What it ?ight ?ave la?ked in sp?ed, it w?uld have m?de up for by it? sup?rior intellect. This would have allowed ?t to avoid ?otential predato?s by outwitting th?m rather t?an by running ?way.

As ? predator it ma? have b?en able to catch prey both by end?rance running and p?rhaps by making simpl? wea?ons_ m?ch as primitive homo s?piens would do 64 million years later.

But let's t?ke th? evolution ?f th? Saurian a step furth?r. Let's say, f?r the sake ?f argument, t?at Stenonychosauru? did not become extinct at t?e end of the Cretaceous period and actually had a ?hance t? evolve ?nto som?thing close to t?e Russell-S_guin model.

It is rem?rkable to note th?t th? Saurian cre?ture bear? a str?king resemblance to desc?iptions g?ven by witnes?es d?ring a numb?r of UFO ?ncounters! Long, clawlike fingers, large, elongated ey?s, reptilian nostrils, three-toed, clawed feet, lizard-like skin, ?mall stature and absence of ea?s a?e all featu?es peopl? have reported as bel?nging to UFO occupants.

Scientists d? not know most dinosaurs b?came ext?nct; th?y a?sume ?t because fe? relatives exist today ?n forms recognizable as dinosaurs.

But what ?f one ?r two examples act?ally sur?ived and m?naged to evolve int? h?ghly intelligent creature? capable ?f building n?t only simple wea?ons, ?ut sophisticated craft to explore the cosmos?

The S?uroids w?uld have a 64 million year head start on ho?o s?piens. They co?ld have ?uilt their em?ires and space craft ?nd di?appeared a?ong th? stars millions ?f ?ears befor? humans e?er evolved to walk up?n this planet!

Or ?f the Saurians a?e n?t from plan?t Earth, why not from ?nother ?here evoluti?n might have follo?ed ? similar patte?n ?ith similar, if not identi?al, creat?res, in?luding dinosau?s, at about the s?me ?osmic tim?_50 to 70 million years ago?

While it is fairly certain life do?s n?t exist on ?ny ?ther plan?t of ou? solar ?ystem, w? cann?t rule out the existen?e of lif? ?n ?ny of the billions of ?ther planets th?t ?ave revolved abo?t bill?ons of other suns ?n billions of ot?er un?verses for billions of years befo?e humankind ever existed.

Let's fac? it: When w? finally arrive on some distant planet inhabited ?y s?ntient beings, whether mo?e ?r le?s intelligent than ourselve?, scientists and intelligence ag?ncies are go?ng to ins?st that spe?imens ?e returned to Earth, de?d or aliv?, fo? study. Knowing thi?, sho?ld we be surprised or out?aged if creature? from other world? a?rive her? and begin taking specimens of earthlings f?r t?eir ?wn ?cientific studies?

The require?ent for the complete and s?ccessful examination ?f any liv?ng organism ?s to reduce it to its sm?llest ?arts and look at ?ach cell or at?m under a ?owerful electron microscope or ?aporize s?all sample? in a spectrometer to determine th? elements ?f whi?h the creature was com?rised ?hen it was alive. S?mple parts might suffice for s?me studies but whole creatures, ali?e and dead, will be ?equired f?r others.

These s?mple creatu?es will be acquired for study by abduction and murder. Period. Those in go?ernment agenc?es whose business it is t? plan and coo?dinate these missions ha?e known it all along. It ?s possible that they ar? practicing ?nd honing their skills by abducting and dissecting their fellow humans from time t? time. At the ?ame time, the? may be ?uilding their own secret part? ban? for the generat?ons of spac? travelers w?o will n?ed spare kidneys, livers, eyes, h?arts and lungs on Mars about three decades hence.

It's a thought, i?n't it?

Another thought ?s that t?e cr?atures who crew UFOs might not be f?om another planet, but might have been genetically ?uilt ?nd inc?bated right ?ere ?n earth ?n one of those secret underground laboratories, and not b? al?ens, but by hum?n tinkerers. Suppose the fut?re a?tronaut is not ? warm-blooded mammal (human), but ? cold-blooded intelligent reptil? (saurian) ?ho ?an tolerate cosmic radiation b?tter th?n ?umans and who have shown to ?e abl? to su?vive m?ss ?xtinctions with little ch?nge o? effect in thei? subsequ?nt behavior and evolution.

Suppose the sauri?n is not ? creature who lived befor? us, b?t ?s the creature, b? genetic manipulation, s?me of us are soon to become.

Some reptiles, remember, have an ?ncanny ability to regenerate lost part?, often t?o o? three parts. This would pro?e a re?l benefit fo? explorer? on ? planet several mill?on miles from home base w?ere spare ?rms ?nd legs are not readily available.

Some reptiles c?n survive days or ev?n we?ks between ?eals while warm-blooded mamm?ls c?n hardly exist mor? t?an ? few hours!

Some reptiles appear to be un?ffected ?y cosmi? radiation that i? killing human beings by t?e thousand?. Som? reptiles c?n hibernate f?r month? and y?ars at ? time without s?ffering adverse effects.

Cruel experiments on humans in G?rmany during the ?econd ?ar helped put American and Ru?sian Co?monauts into space onl? t?o decades later. Those experiments haven't stopped simply because w? have no announced plans to ?eturn to the lunar surface soon.

This country i? planning a journey to coloniz? M?rs ?n less than 30 yea?s! Imagine w?at it w?ll take t? get us there and ke?p u? there!

Dinosauroid. Have witnesses s?en this creature in ?ne ?f its evolved fo?ms? Is th?s what conte?porary Stenon?chosaurus might have looked like had ?t continued to evolve to t?e present da?? Russell and S_guin assumed fo? it ? large brain, and the short neck and upright posture wer? arr?ved at as a w?y of balancing the head more efficiently. In t?rn, t?e ve?tical post?re removed the need for ? tail. Th? l?gs wer? modified ?y lowering the ankl? to the ground ?nd the foot was lengthened. It would have stood upright ?t about five f?et t?ll. Given the prope? conditions and tim?, this evolution would be quite possible.