Random Ridiculous Dinosaur Theories That People Somehow Believe Are True (13 items)

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  (#11) Miami Dolphins Defensive End, William Hayes, Isn’t Sure About This Dinosaur Stuff

  Okay, let’s just allow Mr. Hayes to defend himself in his own words. In a conference call with the Miami-area media, Hayes supposedly explained the following:

  “This dinosaur thing I just can’t roll with. I go to the dinosaur museums and they tell me, ‘Oh, you see the fossils.’ Then, you might see one bone that’s the actual fossil they dug up and everything else is just pieces they put together around the fossil and created this T-Rex.

  “I went to the dinosaur museum and they told me most of the fossils on one dinosaur, everything was completely fake. It was just made up fossils and just a piece of a leg. But they create this big, massive creature. It just don’t make sense to me.”
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  (#9) Dinosaurs Went Extinct Because They Took too Long To Hatch

  A paleobiologist at Florida State University (wait, don’t start laughing yet) is firmly convinced that dinosaurs went extinct in the wake of the asteroid strike because they weren’t getting out of their eggs fast enough. Gregory Erickson believes that once the asteroid strike happened, dinosaurs went extinct only because they couldn’t replenish their numbers fast enough.

  According to Erickson, dinosaurs may have taken as long as six months to hatch from their eggs. That meant that parents were tied to one spot for several months in order to care for their young, and that dino numbers were far too low to replenish.
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  (#6) Dinosaurs Are Living Right Under Our Feet

  According to one man on the street, dinosaurs weren’t killed off by some comet, and they definitely didn't survive the blast and end up evolving into dumb birds. No, dinosaurs actually fled underground when the meteor struck.

  Once in their subterranean haven, these gigantic beasts with comparatively pea-sized brains managed to survive and evolve into reptilian humanoids. In the intervening millennia, they’ve created “vast underground cities around the world.”

  It’s hard not to hear that one without picturing Earl Sinclair and his family. In that context, an underground race of reptilian creatures isn’t such a crazy notion.
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  (#12) One Writer Didn’t Understand Paleontology In Fourth Grade, So Dinosaurs Can’t Exist

  As a child, one writer was particularly intrigued by the possibility that dinosaurs were just a big hoax. Today, her personal commitment to that belief goes so deep that her family's WiFi network is even named “Dinosaurs Aren't Real.” Her original discovery at the tender age of nine that the entire science of paleontology was flawed has since compelled her to ask some pretty compelling questions:

  “When dinosaurs died out, how come the ones with wings didn't fly away from the infamous asteroid? Why didn't mosasaurus swim deeper into the ocean or a little further east and away from the dangers of climate change or whatever people are claiming killed off these powerful monsters? How could prehistoric mammals survive volcanic eruptions, but the giant lizards couldn't fend for themselves? If there were dinosaurs in the Americas, but also in Africa, how did one flaming sky rock kill them all?”

  Thanks to that logic, there’s an army of people across the world who have committed themselves to perpetuating the false idea that massive reptiles once existed on our planet. Definitely plausible.
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  (#2) If Oil Is Made Of Dinosaurs, Why Aren’t Dinosaurs Found With Oil?

  In a response to his own Reddit post, user tigereyeearth explained his own reasoning behind the idea that dinosaurs couldn't have possibly existed. His simple question: “is it not odd that not a single drop of crude oil is discovered with any dinosaur skeleton?[sic].” Quite obviously, according to tigereyeearth, dinosaurs are just a marketing scheme created to make us all believe that fossil fuels are scarce so that big oil can drive up the prices. In fact, oil is a naturally replenishing resource that sits below the Earth’s oceans, “just like oil sits below water (or vinegar) in a salad dressing bottle.”

  Either that very plausible theory is totally true, or oil isn’t just dinosaur bones.
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  (#13) Valve Used Portal 2 To Create Real Dinosaurs

  In 2011, computer game icon Valve released Portal 2, a highly acclaimed puzzler (that you should definitely play). In the days leading up to the game’s release, Valve pumped up the hype by introducing “an extensive and exhaustive alternate reality game into a number of videos, podcasts, images, websites, real-world locations, and 13 different indie games, including Super Meat Boy and The Ball.”

  Valve framed the game by claiming that the series' villain GLaDOS promised to release Portal 2 early if enough gamers “dedicated their CPUs to playing indie games.”

  It was that goal of monopolizing CPU use that caught the attention of reddit user kindlebee, who immediately took to the site to claim that Valve was using the promotion to try to somehow “create a real-life Jurassic Park.”

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