1 00:00:03,003 --> 00:00:04,404 NARRATOR: Ancient carvings, 2 00:00:05,305 --> 00:00:08,207 depicting dinosaurs with humans. 3 00:00:09,209 --> 00:00:12,711 VON DANIKEN: Sometimes the humans are even writing on the back 4 00:00:12,712 --> 00:00:13,812 of the dinosaurs. 5 00:00:14,013 --> 00:00:17,816 NARRATOR: The fossilized tracks of the dinosaurs and men 6 00:00:18,121 --> 00:00:20,290 discovered side by side... 7 00:00:20,325 --> 00:00:21,659 DR. WILLIE E. DYE: We've 8 00:00:21,694 --> 00:00:24,297 found human footprints, dinosaurs and all types of 9 00:00:24,332 --> 00:00:28,903 fossils that scientists tell us that should not be in the same level, 10 00:00:28,972 --> 00:00:30,539 we find them coexisting. 11 00:00:30,575 --> 00:00:34,479 NARRATOR: And high levels of radiation found in the bones 12 00:00:34,515 --> 00:00:37,083 of a tyrannosaurus rex. 13 00:00:37,219 --> 00:00:39,654 MICHAEL BARA: The reason they had to paint them with lead 14 00:00:39,690 --> 00:00:43,395 paint is because they discovered were very, very intensely radioactive. 15 00:00:44,664 --> 00:00:49,037 NARRATOR: Did the dinosaurs fall victim to a cosmic collision? 16 00:00:50,506 --> 00:00:54,444 Or were they deliberately killed off? 17 00:00:54,512 --> 00:00:57,048 GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Is it possible that what we have here 18 00:00:57,084 --> 00:01:02,924 was in fact not an extinction, but an extermination event? 19 00:01:02,959 --> 00:01:06,263 NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have 20 00:01:06,298 --> 00:01:10,570 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 21 00:01:10,605 --> 00:01:13,140 What if it were true? 22 00:01:13,209 --> 00:01:18,081 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 23 00:01:18,117 --> 00:01:25,092 And if so, will science reveal the connection between aliens 24 00:01:25,128 --> 00:01:27,230 and dinosaurs? 25 00:01:41,471 --> 00:01:45,473 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 26 00:02:00,483 --> 00:02:04,085 NARRATOR: Oxfordshire, England, 1819. 27 00:02:06,860 --> 00:02:10,798 In a quarry just outside the village of Stonesfield, 28 00:02:10,834 --> 00:02:15,039 paleontologist William Buckland discovers several fossilized 29 00:02:15,074 --> 00:02:20,714 bones of an enormous unknown animal, including portions of a 30 00:02:20,750 --> 00:02:24,153 lower jaw with teeth still in place. 31 00:02:26,458 --> 00:02:29,662 Though similar bones had been found in the past, 32 00:02:29,697 --> 00:02:33,869 Dr. Buckland was the first European to officially record 33 00:02:33,904 --> 00:02:36,239 the discovery of a "dinosaur," 34 00:02:36,308 --> 00:02:41,848 or as he called it, a megalosaurus. 35 00:02:41,884 --> 00:02:46,088 Since then, dinosaurs have been discovered on every continent 36 00:02:46,157 --> 00:02:49,227 in the world. 37 00:02:49,229 --> 00:02:54,034 LUIS CHIAPPE: There are all kinds of dinosaurs that have been found. 38 00:02:54,070 --> 00:02:56,705 You have plated dinosaurs like the stegosaurus, 39 00:02:56,740 --> 00:03:00,077 you have horn dinosaurs, you have meat-eating dinosaurs, you 40 00:03:00,112 --> 00:03:02,715 have all sorts of dinosaurs. 41 00:03:02,750 --> 00:03:05,888 They live in very different environments, deserts, 44 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:18,306 that we know, and no doubt thousands more that we don't know. 45 00:03:18,375 --> 00:03:25,284 They ranged in size from chicken-size to the largest land animals ever. 46 00:03:25,319 --> 00:03:30,091 CHIAPPE: The largest land animal that we see today is the elephant. 47 00:03:30,127 --> 00:03:32,929 But the elephant would be a midget in comparison to one 48 00:03:32,965 --> 00:03:34,799 of these titanosaurs. 49 00:03:34,834 --> 00:03:37,771 You're talking an animal that weighed maybe 25 times the 50 00:03:37,806 --> 00:03:41,176 weight of an adult male elephant. 51 00:03:41,245 --> 00:03:46,618 These animals reached lengths of about a 120 feet and weights 52 00:03:46,653 --> 00:03:48,321 of a hundred tons. 53 00:03:48,457 --> 00:03:52,427 The plant-eaters would have been dangerous simply because of their size. 54 00:03:52,462 --> 00:03:56,366 Walking in between a herd of titanosaurs that weighed at a 55 00:03:56,436 --> 00:04:00,206 hundred tons, you know, would have been deadly, probably, 56 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:04,713 let alone being face-to-face with a T rex. 57 00:04:08,954 --> 00:04:12,726 PHILIP COPPENS: The dinosaur really speaks to us. 58 00:04:12,794 --> 00:04:16,164 Every child has his fascination with dinosaurs, and we know that 59 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:17,567 they were able to fly. 60 00:04:17,635 --> 00:04:20,071 We know that they are able to frighten you. 61 00:04:20,106 --> 00:04:22,909 They are, to some extent, supernatural creatures. 62 00:04:23,979 --> 00:04:26,414 DAVID CHILDRESS: One of the things with planet Earth was 63 00:04:26,483 --> 00:04:29,586 that in ancient times, everything was bigger and all 64 00:04:29,654 --> 00:04:33,492 the animals were bigger and plants were bigger. 65 00:04:33,527 --> 00:04:35,361 Everything was gigantic. 66 00:04:35,397 --> 00:04:39,368 CHIAPPE: The world of the dinosaurs was completely different from our world. 67 00:04:39,404 --> 00:04:43,207 During the age of the dinosaurs, many other animals lived. 68 00:04:43,243 --> 00:04:47,882 You have giant reptiles swimming in the ocean, flying reptiles 69 00:04:47,917 --> 00:04:50,585 flying over the heads of dinosaurs. 70 00:04:50,654 --> 00:04:54,392 You also have insects, mammals, amphibians and other creatures. 71 00:04:54,428 --> 00:04:57,698 But dinosaurs were the king of the land. 72 00:04:58,734 --> 00:05:01,770 TSOUKALOS: We imagine in science fiction what it would be 73 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:08,614 like to travel to an exotic, exciting, strange alien world 74 00:05:08,683 --> 00:05:13,255 where these giant creatures roaming around the planet, 75 00:05:13,291 --> 00:05:16,928 and it happened here on Earth in our pre-history. 76 00:05:21,235 --> 00:05:24,072 NARRATOR: While scientists have been studying dinosaur 77 00:05:24,107 --> 00:05:28,546 fossils for nearly 200 years, their theories about what these 78 00:05:28,582 --> 00:05:32,719 giant creatures were and how they lived often change with 79 00:05:32,754 --> 00:05:34,858 each new discovery. 80 00:05:36,728 --> 00:05:40,565 Recently, paleontologists have determined that tyrannosaurus 81 00:05:40,601 --> 00:05:46,574 rex was most likely covered not with scales, but with feathers. 82 00:05:48,846 --> 00:05:51,817 WILSON: We found feathers of dinosaurs that are actually 83 00:05:51,852 --> 00:05:55,456 preserved in amber, and so dinosaurs, we now believe that 84 00:05:55,491 --> 00:05:59,195 many, if not most of them, had a feathery covering of some kind. 85 00:05:59,330 --> 00:06:01,799 We know they had very complex behaviors. 86 00:06:02,769 --> 00:06:05,906 They ate eggs that we find show that many dinosaurs made nests 87 00:06:05,941 --> 00:06:09,278 on the ground that they protected from predators, 88 00:06:09,313 --> 00:06:11,849 and they brought food to the developing young. 89 00:06:13,085 --> 00:06:16,789 CHIAPPE: In the past, we envisioned dinosaurs as 90 00:06:16,824 --> 00:06:21,964 lethargic, gigantic reptiles that were slow and sluggish. 91 00:06:21,999 --> 00:06:24,502 That notion has changed completely. 92 00:06:25,071 --> 00:06:28,942 We interpret them now as being much more active. 93 00:06:28,977 --> 00:06:33,916 Many of them were feathered and presumably they were warm-blooded. 94 00:06:34,085 --> 00:06:35,852 We know that they grew very fast. 95 00:06:35,957 --> 00:06:41,162 Essentially dinosaurs were very atypical reptile, if you want. 96 00:06:41,197 --> 00:06:45,201 We still have a lot to learn about the dinosaurs. 97 00:06:45,270 --> 00:06:47,771 WILSON: It used to be easy to define a dinosaur. 98 00:06:47,808 --> 00:06:51,712 But defining a dinosaur has become more complex. 99 00:06:54,784 --> 00:06:56,786 NARRATOR: But while paleontologists continue to 100 00:06:56,822 --> 00:07:02,496 discover information on the lives of dinosaurs, ancient 101 00:07:02,531 --> 00:07:05,834 astronaut theorists believe there may be an otherworldly 102 00:07:05,869 --> 00:07:08,169 connection to their demise. 103 00:07:08,206 --> 00:07:09,872 JASON MARTELL: When looking at dinosaurs, 104 00:07:09,909 --> 00:07:12,309 there's some key questions that really need to be answered. 105 00:07:12,380 --> 00:07:14,348 We don't know their level of intelligence, we don't 106 00:07:14,416 --> 00:07:16,251 really know what happened to them. 107 00:07:16,419 --> 00:07:18,790 More importantly, where do they come from? 108 00:07:19,992 --> 00:07:24,163 TSOUKALOS: Scientists truly believe that dinosaurs ruled this planet for 109 00:07:24,199 --> 00:07:27,369 165 million years. 110 00:07:27,437 --> 00:07:31,108 In comparison, modern homo sapiens-- humans-- have only 111 00:07:31,143 --> 00:07:34,380 been around for about 200,000 years. 112 00:07:34,448 --> 00:07:41,456 So dinosaurs are by far the dominant species in the history of this Earth. 113 00:07:41,525 --> 00:07:42,792 (roaring) 114 00:07:42,828 --> 00:07:46,565 But in the early 1800's, if you told someone the Earth used to 115 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:50,104 be teaming with giant beasts, some of which weighed over a 116 00:07:50,139 --> 00:07:54,144 hundred tons, that person would say to you, "You're crazy." 117 00:07:54,213 --> 00:07:59,220 And yet, today, the dinosaurs are scientific fact. 118 00:08:00,456 --> 00:08:04,728 Dinosaurs could very well have been an early experiment by 119 00:08:04,763 --> 00:08:08,100 extraterrestrials with life on Earth. 120 00:08:08,335 --> 00:08:12,741 This planet has been capable of supporting life for millions if 121 00:08:12,776 --> 00:08:14,545 not billions of years. 122 00:08:15,980 --> 00:08:19,651 NARRATOR: The accepted belief within the scientific community 123 00:08:19,687 --> 00:08:24,091 is that dinosaurs dominated the planet until a catastrophic 124 00:08:24,127 --> 00:08:27,930 event wiped them out 65 million years ago. 125 00:08:35,944 --> 00:08:39,182 CHIAPPE: There was a mass extinction that essentially 126 00:08:39,217 --> 00:08:40,885 exterminated maybe 50% 127 00:08:40,953 --> 00:08:42,521 of what was alive. 128 00:08:42,556 --> 00:08:46,661 Among the 50% are the last dinosaurs that lived during 129 00:08:46,696 --> 00:08:48,364 the age of the dinosaurs. 130 00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:50,903 Things like triceratops, T rex. 131 00:08:53,039 --> 00:08:56,209 COPPENS: We are speculating, and we have seen science trying 132 00:08:56,244 --> 00:09:00,216 to come up with answers, and so how the dinosaur disappeared is 133 00:09:00,251 --> 00:09:03,320 something which is still an open question to which science has 134 00:09:03,355 --> 00:09:04,923 no answer so far. 135 00:09:04,991 --> 00:09:07,527 TSOUKALOS: It is possible that extraterrestrials may have 136 00:09:07,563 --> 00:09:10,532 wanted to trade out the dinosaurs for a more 137 00:09:10,568 --> 00:09:13,768 intelligent species in their likeness... 138 00:09:14,942 --> 00:09:18,711 and Earth was the perfect place to do it. 139 00:09:22,586 --> 00:09:26,224 NARRATOR: Were the dinosaurs killed off by a cosmic natural 140 00:09:26,259 --> 00:09:29,498 event as mainstream scientists believe? 141 00:09:31,868 --> 00:09:37,241 Or might the dinosaurs have been the target of extermination? 142 00:09:38,444 --> 00:09:42,750 Perhaps the answer may be found by examining numerous ancient 143 00:09:42,785 --> 00:09:47,390 carvings and other artworks -- in which dinosaurs and man 144 00:09:47,425 --> 00:09:50,829 are shown to have coexisted. 145 00:09:56,513 --> 00:10:01,153 NARRATOR: Planet Earth... 65 million years ago. 146 00:10:02,523 --> 00:10:06,227 An eight-mile-wide asteroid hurtles towards the planet at 147 00:10:06,262 --> 00:10:10,100 approximately 12 miles per second and strikes the region 148 00:10:10,136 --> 00:10:18,313 now known as the Yucatan Peninsula... with a force of 149 00:10:18,382 --> 00:10:21,251 100 million megatons of TNT. 150 00:10:22,287 --> 00:10:27,094 According to mainstream science, this catastrophic event forever 151 00:10:27,129 --> 00:10:30,900 changed the climate and the topography of Earth and ended 152 00:10:30,935 --> 00:10:33,771 the reign of the dinosaurs. 153 00:10:39,648 --> 00:10:42,185 DAVID MORRISON: The object that came in was eight or ten 154 00:10:42,253 --> 00:10:43,954 miles in diameter. 155 00:10:43,989 --> 00:10:49,029 That impact dug a deep hole, lofted material into the 156 00:10:49,097 --> 00:10:54,037 atmosphere, black dust, which shrouded the planet in darkness 157 00:10:54,105 --> 00:10:57,609 for months, maybe for a couple of years. 158 00:11:00,113 --> 00:11:02,517 MARK A. WILSON: There would have been a time in which the 159 00:11:02,552 --> 00:11:05,621 sunlight was simply shut out from the Earth's surface, and 160 00:11:05,690 --> 00:11:10,362 photosynthetic organisms, like plants, would begin to die. 161 00:11:10,397 --> 00:11:12,633 FRANKLIN RUEHL: The plant- eating dinosaurs would have 162 00:11:12,702 --> 00:11:14,537 nothing to eat and would have died off. 163 00:11:15,472 --> 00:11:18,408 The meat-eating dinosaurs would then have nothing to eat either, 164 00:11:18,444 --> 00:11:22,715 and this might've lasted anywhere from five to ten years. 165 00:11:22,750 --> 00:11:26,788 How quickly the extinction took place is a matter of debate. 166 00:11:29,961 --> 00:11:33,099 NARRATOR: But is it possible that some species of dinosaur 167 00:11:33,134 --> 00:11:36,904 actually survived this cataclysmic event? 168 00:11:36,940 --> 00:11:41,679 And not only survived but thrived for several thousands, 169 00:11:41,748 --> 00:11:43,682 or even millions, of years? 170 00:11:47,322 --> 00:11:50,960 Perhaps clues can be recovered near a crater where scientists 171 00:11:50,995 --> 00:11:55,134 believe the giant asteroid struck the Earth, right in the 172 00:11:55,169 --> 00:11:59,108 heart of what is now the Yucatan Peninsula. 173 00:12:00,644 --> 00:12:04,515 Today, less than 90 miles from the epicenter of the 174 00:12:04,583 --> 00:12:08,789 asteroid impact, lies one of the largest and best-preserved 175 00:12:08,824 --> 00:12:10,992 cities of the ancient Maya, 176 00:12:12,228 --> 00:12:14,065 Chichen Itza. 177 00:12:15,167 --> 00:12:18,103 CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if it's not some strange 178 00:12:18,138 --> 00:12:24,113 coincidence that the same spot, the Yucatan, which experienced 179 00:12:24,148 --> 00:12:28,186 this devastating asteroid strike, which caused extinction 180 00:12:28,221 --> 00:12:34,029 of the dinosaurs, is also the main habitation area of the ancient Maya. 181 00:12:35,566 --> 00:12:39,136 PHILIP COPPENS: Chichen Itza is said to have been the place where 182 00:12:39,172 --> 00:12:42,242 the Mayans made contact with the gods. 183 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:47,549 And I find it an extraordinary coincidence of all the potential 184 00:12:47,585 --> 00:12:50,354 places around the Gulf of Mexico, which they could've 185 00:12:50,390 --> 00:12:54,528 chosen, they took a place where literally something fell from 186 00:12:54,563 --> 00:12:56,531 the sky 65 million years ago. 187 00:12:58,402 --> 00:13:01,539 And the Mayans believed that this contact with the gods, this 188 00:13:01,574 --> 00:13:06,781 contact with the sky, happened there, up until the most recent of times. 189 00:13:06,916 --> 00:13:10,286 And so, what we have here is either a coincidence or 190 00:13:10,355 --> 00:13:11,789 something else going on. 191 00:13:11,857 --> 00:13:14,794 And, really, this something else is only something, which 192 00:13:14,862 --> 00:13:17,697 hardly anybody has touched upon, but I think it is 193 00:13:17,733 --> 00:13:20,402 something which really needs to be explored in far more detail. 194 00:13:20,738 --> 00:13:23,273 CHILDRESS: In the Mayan area and other areas of Mexico, 195 00:13:23,309 --> 00:13:27,079 there are curious depictions of dinosaurs. 196 00:13:27,148 --> 00:13:28,882 There's pterosaurs. 197 00:13:28,918 --> 00:13:31,553 There's a famous dinosaur that appears on one of the paintings 198 00:13:31,588 --> 00:13:33,557 at Bonampak. 199 00:13:37,397 --> 00:13:42,804 So you have to wonder just how the Mayans knew about dinosaurs. 200 00:13:42,873 --> 00:13:46,476 Supposedly, dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 201 00:13:48,581 --> 00:13:51,653 NARRATOR: But if, as mainstream scientists believe, 202 00:13:51,688 --> 00:13:55,527 the dinosaurs had been extinct for millions of years 203 00:13:55,562 --> 00:13:58,564 before the evolution of mankind on this planet, 204 00:13:58,565 --> 00:14:01,967 then what would explain the wealth of Mayan art 205 00:14:02,003 --> 00:14:05,640 depicting interactions between humans and what appear to be 206 00:14:05,675 --> 00:14:11,850 dinosaurs-- found in the very area where they supposedly died off? 207 00:14:14,188 --> 00:14:18,094 Ancient astronaut theorists believe that additional evidence 208 00:14:18,129 --> 00:14:21,866 can be found in northern Cambodia, at one of the largest 209 00:14:21,935 --> 00:14:23,936 temple complexes in the world, 210 00:14:23,971 --> 00:14:27,275 Angkor Wat. 211 00:14:27,310 --> 00:14:31,982 Here, among the intricate stone carvings that adorn the walls of 212 00:14:32,018 --> 00:14:35,888 the sacred site, researchers have been fascinated by numerous 213 00:14:35,957 --> 00:14:40,496 images of animals that supposedly roamed the region 214 00:14:40,531 --> 00:14:43,501 where the temple was built. 215 00:14:43,536 --> 00:14:47,540 But one, depicting what appears to be a dinosaur, has 216 00:14:47,576 --> 00:14:51,614 archaeologists and scholars scratching their heads. 217 00:14:51,749 --> 00:14:54,585 MARK A. WILSON: There's a temple called Ta Prohm, and it 218 00:14:54,653 --> 00:14:58,057 has a series of medallions that are carved into its surface and 219 00:14:58,092 --> 00:15:01,930 one medallion in particular has attracted attention because it 220 00:15:01,999 --> 00:15:03,733 looks like a stegosaurus. 221 00:15:03,768 --> 00:15:07,939 And so some have cited this as an example of a dinosaur that 222 00:15:08,008 --> 00:15:11,011 lived into historical times. 223 00:15:11,548 --> 00:15:15,050 GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: It's a stegosaurus not as a skeleton, 224 00:15:15,086 --> 00:15:18,957 but it's a stegosaurus with its skin and muscles, as if somebody 225 00:15:19,026 --> 00:15:23,230 saw it while it was alive. 226 00:15:24,199 --> 00:15:28,205 So how is it possible that the artist was able to carve 227 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:29,975 something like this? 228 00:15:30,310 --> 00:15:34,082 Did they receive the knowledge of something like this? 229 00:15:35,051 --> 00:15:37,420 LUIS CHIAPPE: There is no doubt that ancient civilizations 230 00:15:37,455 --> 00:15:40,557 must have encountered dinosaur remains. 231 00:15:40,593 --> 00:15:44,096 Many of them lived in areas where dinosaurs are very 232 00:15:44,132 --> 00:15:47,235 abundant and I'm sure they found them here and there. 233 00:15:47,270 --> 00:15:51,142 I think that the fact that they have incorporated what appears 234 00:15:51,177 --> 00:15:55,315 to be dinosaurs in their artistic depictions speaks of an 235 00:15:55,350 --> 00:15:59,287 attempt to interpret them. 236 00:15:59,323 --> 00:16:04,663 How exactly they interpret them, I don't believe is clear. 237 00:16:04,665 --> 00:16:08,636 Even 200 years ago, we had a hard time figuring out how 238 00:16:08,671 --> 00:16:12,741 the bones of dinosaurs fit together. 239 00:16:16,148 --> 00:16:18,819 NARRATOR: What could explain the ancient builders of 240 00:16:18,854 --> 00:16:23,893 Angkor Wat having such a sophisticated knowledge of dinosaur anatomy? 241 00:16:23,962 --> 00:16:27,532 Could it be, as many ancient astronaut theorists believe, 242 00:16:27,568 --> 00:16:33,908 that their knowledge came firsthand, as the result of actual interaction? 243 00:16:37,983 --> 00:16:41,755 NARRATOR: The Tsodilo Hills, Northern Botswana, Africa. 244 00:16:45,863 --> 00:16:51,370 Here, in 2001, archaeologists discover what many believe to be 245 00:16:51,406 --> 00:16:54,710 the world's oldest-known religious artifact, 246 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:01,553 a 20-foot-long serpentine rock carving, made over 70,000 years ago, by 247 00:17:01,588 --> 00:17:05,559 the ancient San People. 248 00:17:05,561 --> 00:17:09,299 DAVID ICKE: Serpent worship is one of the oldest known 249 00:17:09,368 --> 00:17:12,270 form of religious worship. 250 00:17:12,305 --> 00:17:17,408 And it's absolutely everywhere that you look. 251 00:17:20,985 --> 00:17:24,990 NARRATOR: But might the enormous scale of the serpent's head, measuring 252 00:17:25,059 --> 00:17:28,463 six-and-a-half feet tall, suggest that the carving 253 00:17:28,498 --> 00:17:32,602 represented not a python... but a dinosaur? 254 00:17:34,841 --> 00:17:37,610 MICHAEL BARA: There's a lot of ancient artwork that clearly 255 00:17:37,645 --> 00:17:41,617 shows a actual reptilian species being worshiped by humans. 256 00:17:41,652 --> 00:17:44,789 Some sort of reptilian presence that was here on the Earth in 257 00:17:44,824 --> 00:17:45,790 the ancient past. 258 00:17:46,292 --> 00:17:49,496 TSOUKALOS: The question is, is it possible that our 259 00:17:49,531 --> 00:17:54,036 ancestors saw something that they tried to imitate and the 260 00:17:54,105 --> 00:17:57,977 answer is a resounding yes. 261 00:17:59,013 --> 00:18:02,216 COPPENS: Whenever it comes to evidence of the possibility 262 00:18:02,285 --> 00:18:05,822 that dinosaurs and mankind existed, each time science has 263 00:18:05,857 --> 00:18:08,326 tried to explain it away. 264 00:18:09,162 --> 00:18:12,866 But we know the archeological evidence really suggests that it 265 00:18:12,902 --> 00:18:15,237 is not that straightforward. 266 00:18:15,306 --> 00:18:20,144 It is definitely possible that our earliest ancestors met dinosaurs. 267 00:18:22,917 --> 00:18:26,154 NARRATOR: Might ancient depictions of dinosaurs really 268 00:18:26,189 --> 00:18:32,164 be proof that humans and dinosaurs did, at one time, coexist? 269 00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:36,537 According to mainstream scientists, the notion is not 270 00:18:36,573 --> 00:18:40,310 only incredible, but downright impossible. 271 00:18:40,545 --> 00:18:44,083 Unless, of course, they are confronted with evidence 272 00:18:44,118 --> 00:18:49,291 in the form of a fossilized footprint of a dinosaur, side by 273 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:53,730 side with that of a human being. 274 00:19:01,528 --> 00:19:03,462 NARRATOR: Dinosaur Valley State Park. 275 00:19:04,832 --> 00:19:06,866 Glen Rose, Texas. 276 00:19:08,706 --> 00:19:14,884 Here, in 1930, Roland T.Bird, field explorer for the American Museum, 277 00:19:14,885 --> 00:19:20,356 reported finding "clearly defined" human footprints alongside dinosaur 278 00:19:20,392 --> 00:19:24,864 tracks in the same exposed layer of riverbed limestone. 279 00:19:25,134 --> 00:19:29,737 MICHAEL CREMO: Some researchers found human footprints alongside the 280 00:19:29,806 --> 00:19:32,075 footprints of dinosaurs. 281 00:19:32,144 --> 00:19:35,814 There is other evidence, from other parts of the world, that 282 00:19:35,849 --> 00:19:39,353 shows that human beings like us were present during the time of 283 00:19:39,388 --> 00:19:41,389 the dinosaurs. 284 00:19:41,425 --> 00:19:44,595 DYE: We've found human footprints, dinosaurs and all 285 00:19:44,663 --> 00:19:48,500 types of fossils that scientists tell us that should not be in 286 00:19:48,536 --> 00:19:53,609 the same level as man, but we find them coexisting. 287 00:19:53,945 --> 00:19:57,916 COPPENS: Now, we have never thought about this because 288 00:19:57,951 --> 00:20:02,989 science has told us that there are 65 million years between us and them. 289 00:20:03,026 --> 00:20:06,230 But there is, again, archaeological and geological 290 00:20:06,298 --> 00:20:08,666 evidence to suggest that this is not the case. 291 00:20:08,702 --> 00:20:11,905 There are footprints which show ancestors of ours and dinosaurs 292 00:20:11,974 --> 00:20:14,210 in the same stratum. 293 00:20:15,947 --> 00:20:19,651 NARRATOR: Could these fossilized footprints really be 294 00:20:19,719 --> 00:20:25,260 evidence that, at some point, humans actually coexisted with dinosaurs? 295 00:20:26,396 --> 00:20:30,634 According to mainstream scientists, the fossil evidence 296 00:20:30,703 --> 00:20:35,475 found at Dinosaur Valley is inconclusive at best. 297 00:20:35,477 --> 00:20:39,448 RUEHL: There are three basic dinosaur eras-- the Triassic, 298 00:20:39,484 --> 00:20:41,785 Jurassic and Cretaceous. 299 00:20:41,787 --> 00:20:46,058 Actually, these were named not for the dinosaurs, but for the 300 00:20:46,094 --> 00:20:49,798 various rock structures that were found at that time. 301 00:20:49,834 --> 00:20:54,138 The Triassic dates back about 250 to 200 million years ago; 302 00:20:54,173 --> 00:20:59,246 the Jurassic, 200 to 135 million years ago; and the final, the 303 00:20:59,281 --> 00:21:03,119 Cretaceous, 135 to 65 million years ago. 304 00:21:03,154 --> 00:21:06,090 COPPENS: It is simply impossible to say that every 305 00:21:06,126 --> 00:21:10,197 single dinosaur of planet Earth completely disappeared, and the 306 00:21:10,266 --> 00:21:14,303 likelihood is that at least some definitely survived for at least 307 00:21:14,339 --> 00:21:16,107 several more million years. 308 00:21:19,346 --> 00:21:22,717 NARRATOR: The most widely used scientific method to 309 00:21:22,786 --> 00:21:27,827 determine the age of fossils is by a process known as carbon dating-- 310 00:21:29,464 --> 00:21:33,802 a technique that measures the rate of decay and radioactivity in 311 00:21:33,837 --> 00:21:35,638 an organic object. 312 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,809 BEN FIRMSTON: Carbon-14, it's not a stable isotope, so it 313 00:21:38,844 --> 00:21:42,315 decays over time, whereas the C-12, carbon-12, does not decay, 314 00:21:42,350 --> 00:21:45,352 so by measuring the two against each other, we're able to get 315 00:21:45,388 --> 00:21:47,089 very general age. 316 00:21:47,157 --> 00:21:51,529 GRAHAM HANCOCK: In order to do carbon dating, you need organic material. 317 00:21:51,565 --> 00:21:54,668 You need wood or bone-- something that lived. 318 00:21:54,703 --> 00:21:57,706 A piece of stone can't be carbon-dated, and often, 319 00:21:57,742 --> 00:22:00,510 archaeologists are reduced to finding something under that 320 00:22:00,545 --> 00:22:04,116 piece of stone, which is organic, and dating that, and 321 00:22:04,184 --> 00:22:07,588 then making the assumption, not necessarily correct, that the 322 00:22:07,623 --> 00:22:12,196 carving of the stone dates to the period of the thing under it. 323 00:22:12,598 --> 00:22:16,201 MICHAEL CREMO: For objects that are millions of years old, 324 00:22:16,238 --> 00:22:21,042 there is no scientific method that will allow us to date the 325 00:22:21,078 --> 00:22:24,214 object or bone itself. 326 00:22:24,216 --> 00:22:29,055 They have to date the dinosaur bone according to the age of the 327 00:22:29,091 --> 00:22:32,761 deposits in which it is found. 328 00:22:32,797 --> 00:22:37,402 There are methods that will allow them to date these deposits. 329 00:22:37,437 --> 00:22:40,841 COPPENS: Carbon dating results don't get published in 330 00:22:40,910 --> 00:22:42,277 peer review journals. 331 00:22:42,312 --> 00:22:45,582 We have so many things happening in the world of science whereby 332 00:22:45,617 --> 00:22:48,252 it is clear that scientists are playing a game. 333 00:22:48,489 --> 00:22:53,695 And so this notion that somehow dinosaurs completely disappeared 334 00:22:53,764 --> 00:22:57,768 65 million years ago is now something which science as such 335 00:22:57,803 --> 00:23:01,640 is really beginning to push holes in, as well. 336 00:23:01,644 --> 00:23:04,479 CHRISTOPHER BUSBY: Carbon dating assumes that the 337 00:23:04,514 --> 00:23:08,818 concentration of radiocarbon, carbon-14, is always a constant. 338 00:23:08,855 --> 00:23:11,890 And I think this is an assumption which may not be... 339 00:23:11,959 --> 00:23:15,295 may not be true, because carbon-14 is produced as a 340 00:23:15,331 --> 00:23:19,970 result of certain cosmic ray interactions in the atmosphere. 341 00:23:19,972 --> 00:23:23,642 But if those cosmic ray interactions changed in the 342 00:23:23,677 --> 00:23:26,847 past, which they may well have done, then the production of 343 00:23:26,883 --> 00:23:30,086 carbon-14 that is present in the atmosphere at the time when it 344 00:23:30,154 --> 00:23:33,091 was fixed in whatever it is that are being tested, will have not 345 00:23:33,159 --> 00:23:34,827 been the same as it is now. 346 00:23:35,563 --> 00:23:39,701 NARRATOR: But if the fossil evidence of dinosaurs cannot be 347 00:23:39,737 --> 00:23:44,275 reliably dated, might some bones actually be from a time 348 00:23:44,343 --> 00:23:48,415 thousands, or even millions, of years after paleontologists 349 00:23:48,450 --> 00:23:50,986 believe they became extinct? 350 00:23:51,355 --> 00:23:56,895 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is yes, and 351 00:23:56,931 --> 00:24:02,070 they point to additional evidence found in South America. 352 00:24:06,210 --> 00:24:08,212 Ica, Peru. 353 00:24:08,249 --> 00:24:15,725 Here, in 1961, workers in the Ocucaje Desert unearthed a 354 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,399 collection of carved andesite stones, many depicting what 355 00:24:20,435 --> 00:24:24,205 appear to be human encounters with dinosaurs. 356 00:24:24,574 --> 00:24:29,113 And since then, approximately 50,000 of these mysterious 357 00:24:29,148 --> 00:24:32,586 stones have been found across the region. 358 00:24:33,090 --> 00:24:36,157 VON DANIKEN: I have photographed some hundreds of 359 00:24:36,193 --> 00:24:38,660 them in a collection in the city of Ica. 360 00:24:39,765 --> 00:24:43,602 And there was an old professor, Dr. Cabrera. 361 00:24:43,637 --> 00:24:49,345 The Indians brought him stones from all over the country of 362 00:24:49,414 --> 00:24:53,685 Peru, and on these stones is these fantastic engravings. 363 00:24:53,754 --> 00:24:58,593 NARRATOR: Peruvian physician Javier Cabrera began researching 364 00:24:58,628 --> 00:25:03,801 what have become known as the Ica stones in 1966. 365 00:25:04,271 --> 00:25:09,009 Ranging in size from small pebbles to large boulders, 366 00:25:09,045 --> 00:25:15,219 Dr. Cabrera's museum preserves over 20,000 of the strange rock carvings. 367 00:25:15,288 --> 00:25:19,392 VON DANIKEN: All dinosaurs died about 60 millions of years 368 00:25:19,461 --> 00:25:25,300 ago, so normally, no human being should ever have seen a dinosaur. 369 00:25:25,471 --> 00:25:29,810 But there are wonderful pictures, engravings on stone, 370 00:25:29,845 --> 00:25:34,249 where you see humans and dinosaurs together. 371 00:25:34,318 --> 00:25:39,492 Sometimes the humans are even riding on the back of the dinosaurs. 372 00:25:40,595 --> 00:25:44,732 DYE: What we have here is an Ica burial stone, which is very 373 00:25:44,768 --> 00:25:50,109 unique, and what it depicts is that man and dinosaurs lived 374 00:25:50,177 --> 00:25:51,979 contemporaneously. 375 00:25:52,881 --> 00:25:59,790 We see the various triceratops, brachiosaurus and T. rex-- 376 00:25:59,859 --> 00:26:02,561 those type of creatures. 377 00:26:02,597 --> 00:26:08,805 So these Icas had to either see them or they knew a lot more 378 00:26:08,874 --> 00:26:14,080 about the dinosaurs, because they drew them precisely. 379 00:26:15,015 --> 00:26:18,119 NARRATOR: Although many ancient astronaut theorists 380 00:26:18,155 --> 00:26:21,658 believe the stones date from the fifth century BC to the early 381 00:26:21,727 --> 00:26:26,332 13th century AD, there are those in the scientific community 382 00:26:26,401 --> 00:26:29,405 who remain skeptical about their origin. 383 00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:34,812 But consider this-- just the enormous number of stones would 384 00:26:34,881 --> 00:26:38,552 have required that an artist carve more than 1,000 of them 385 00:26:38,587 --> 00:26:42,725 a year every year for 45 years. 386 00:26:42,761 --> 00:26:48,801 But even if the Ica stones are proven to be real, more questions remain. 387 00:26:49,070 --> 00:26:51,506 What happened to the dinosaurs? 388 00:26:51,641 --> 00:26:54,744 Did they simply get hunted to extinction? 389 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:56,981 If so, by whom? 390 00:26:57,016 --> 00:26:58,617 And why? 391 00:26:59,019 --> 00:27:01,989 COPPENS: Imagine a period in time when there are very 392 00:27:02,024 --> 00:27:03,991 few human beings about on this planet. 393 00:27:05,029 --> 00:27:08,097 And maybe there are dinosaurs about. 394 00:27:08,335 --> 00:27:12,571 These beings could easily kill our ancestors. 395 00:27:12,841 --> 00:27:16,111 If our ancestors were in an environment where there were 396 00:27:16,146 --> 00:27:20,519 dinosaurs, this would be the greatest threat to their survival. 397 00:27:21,054 --> 00:27:25,827 NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs have proven to be too big... 398 00:27:25,862 --> 00:27:31,669 too territorial... or simply too deadly for mankind 399 00:27:31,704 --> 00:27:33,941 to allow their survival? 400 00:27:34,876 --> 00:27:40,684 Or was their demise part of a larger plan, not by humans, 401 00:27:40,719 --> 00:27:46,460 but by otherworldly beings, as many ancient astronaut theorists speculate? 402 00:27:46,995 --> 00:27:50,565 And they believe further evidence can be found in the 403 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:53,969 study of Earth-threatening asteroids. 404 00:27:59,694 --> 00:28:03,996 NARRATOR: The United States Capitol, 1992. 405 00:28:04,134 --> 00:28:08,840 Congress authorizes funding for the Spaceguard program, a global 406 00:28:08,875 --> 00:28:13,181 network of telescopes designed to scan the skies for 407 00:28:13,216 --> 00:28:15,851 Earth-threatening asteroids. 408 00:28:15,886 --> 00:28:21,394 As of 2011, NASA has identified approximately 10,000 near-Earth 409 00:28:21,429 --> 00:28:25,300 objects that could potentially hit our planet. 410 00:28:27,037 --> 00:28:32,745 MORRISON: Of all the natural hazards that we know of-- 411 00:28:32,780 --> 00:28:40,491 earthquakes, volcano, hurricanes, typhoons-- 412 00:28:40,526 --> 00:28:45,165 the impact hazard, the possibility of us being hit by a comet or 413 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,571 asteroid, is the only one we can eliminate. 414 00:28:48,572 --> 00:28:52,410 You could never stop an earthquake or a volcano. 415 00:28:52,445 --> 00:28:56,549 But if we had a decade, two decades warning of an object 416 00:28:56,584 --> 00:28:59,954 that might hit the Earth, we do have the technology, at least 417 00:29:00,023 --> 00:29:03,427 in principle, to send a spacecraft out and give it a 418 00:29:03,462 --> 00:29:10,772 nudge and just slightly change its orbit so it misses. 419 00:29:10,774 --> 00:29:15,245 TSOUKALOS: If we can control the trajectories of asteroids 420 00:29:15,281 --> 00:29:20,387 to direct them away from Earth, then it's certainly possible 421 00:29:20,422 --> 00:29:24,060 that highly advanced extraterrestrials could have had 422 00:29:24,096 --> 00:29:28,834 the technology to direct an asteroid towards Earth. 423 00:29:30,972 --> 00:29:36,813 RUEHL: Did advanced E.T.'s direct an asteroid to that spot? 424 00:29:36,849 --> 00:29:40,954 It's within the realm of feasibility that advanced E.T.'s 425 00:29:40,989 --> 00:29:45,294 indeed directed an asteroid to the Yucatan Peninsula. 426 00:29:47,531 --> 00:29:49,767 CHIAPPE: The question is, 427 00:29:49,803 --> 00:29:54,341 Was the impact enough to trigger the extinction? 428 00:29:54,376 --> 00:29:55,977 And that's what's controversial. 429 00:29:56,012 --> 00:29:58,448 Some people believe that that was enough; some people 430 00:29:58,483 --> 00:30:01,118 believe that it wasn't. 431 00:30:02,555 --> 00:30:06,828 NARRATOR: For decades, mainstream scientists believed 432 00:30:06,863 --> 00:30:10,000 that the asteroid that may have been responsible for wiping 433 00:30:10,035 --> 00:30:15,807 out the dinosaurs was a fragment of a giant asteroid called Baptistina. 434 00:30:16,178 --> 00:30:21,852 But on September 19, 2011, NASA concluded that the deadly 435 00:30:21,887 --> 00:30:25,592 asteroid may have had a different origin. 436 00:30:28,897 --> 00:30:33,102 MORRISON: Some people think that they can guess what the 437 00:30:33,171 --> 00:30:37,176 origin was of the object that hit us 65 million years ago. 438 00:30:37,212 --> 00:30:39,046 Others disagree. 439 00:30:39,081 --> 00:30:41,781 We simply don't have enough data. 440 00:30:41,851 --> 00:30:45,523 NARRATOR: But if the asteroid did not break off of Baptistina, 441 00:30:45,558 --> 00:30:47,726 where did it come from? 442 00:30:47,761 --> 00:30:51,198 And is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists 443 00:30:51,234 --> 00:30:55,304 believe, that the object may not have been an asteroid, but an 444 00:30:55,373 --> 00:30:58,576 extraterrestrial weapon? 445 00:31:01,148 --> 00:31:06,056 RUEHL: Perhaps the extinction was triggered by advanced E.T.'s. 446 00:31:06,057 --> 00:31:10,096 Specifically, they might have used something to destroy the dinosaurs. 447 00:31:11,132 --> 00:31:16,639 NARRATOR: In 1980, physicist Luis Alvarez discovered a thin, 448 00:31:16,674 --> 00:31:20,945 global layer of sediment nearly 65 million years old that 449 00:31:20,980 --> 00:31:28,389 contains high levels of iridium, an element not naturally found on Earth. 450 00:31:28,426 --> 00:31:31,796 MORRISON: Those materials probably came from an asteroid. 451 00:31:31,831 --> 00:31:33,966 They could have come from a comet. 452 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:37,638 But they definitely came from somewhere in the solar system 453 00:31:37,674 --> 00:31:40,376 far beyond the Earth and moon. 454 00:31:40,445 --> 00:31:43,648 NARRATOR: Iridium is believed to be deposited on Earth by 455 00:31:43,684 --> 00:31:48,823 celestial masses like meteors, comets and asteroids. 456 00:31:48,858 --> 00:31:52,896 But the rare element can also be introduced into the atmosphere 457 00:31:52,964 --> 00:31:55,766 as a byproduct of something else. 458 00:31:59,475 --> 00:32:03,179 Fallout from a nuclear weapon. 459 00:32:03,214 --> 00:32:07,252 But could the Earth's iridium layer be physical proof that 460 00:32:07,321 --> 00:32:12,260 advanced nuclear weapons had at one time devastated our planet? 461 00:32:12,329 --> 00:32:15,031 And might they have been deliberately deployed in an 462 00:32:15,066 --> 00:32:17,769 effort to wipe out the dinosaurs? 463 00:32:23,578 --> 00:32:26,048 BARA: Most people don't realize that most of the T.Rex 464 00:32:26,084 --> 00:32:28,952 skeletons that are on display at various museums 465 00:32:29,021 --> 00:32:32,725 around the world-- for instance the Field Museum in Chicago has 466 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,696 these dinosaur skeletons, these T. rex skeletons, and they're 467 00:32:35,732 --> 00:32:40,138 painted with a very specific high-density lead paint. 468 00:32:41,274 --> 00:32:44,210 Now, the reason they had to paint them with lead paint is 469 00:32:44,245 --> 00:32:46,981 because when they discovered the bones of these T. rexes, 470 00:32:47,050 --> 00:32:51,389 they discovered that they were very, very intensely radioactive. 471 00:32:52,625 --> 00:32:55,995 NARRATOR: But if dinosaurs really fell victim to a nuclear 472 00:32:56,064 --> 00:33:00,469 attack, might there be some sort of tangible evidence? 473 00:33:03,141 --> 00:33:06,578 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the evidence does, in 474 00:33:06,614 --> 00:33:12,422 fact, exist-- in the pages of the ancient Hindu texts. 475 00:33:12,457 --> 00:33:14,625 MARTELL: We can look into the ancient Indian texts like the 476 00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:18,999 Mahabharata, and there are clear stories that describe lizards of 477 00:33:19,068 --> 00:33:25,977 various sizes-- some even the size of buildings-- at were 478 00:33:26,045 --> 00:33:27,779 all mass-exterminated. 479 00:33:27,815 --> 00:33:30,616 And it was because of the angry gods. 480 00:33:30,619 --> 00:33:33,990 Now, we can look at this and say it's mythology, or was there 481 00:33:34,058 --> 00:33:40,099 some type of mass extinction-level event caused by ancient aliens? 482 00:33:40,634 --> 00:33:45,273 CREMO: If we look at the records left in the ancient 483 00:33:45,309 --> 00:33:50,281 Sanskrit writings of India, we see descriptions of weapons 484 00:33:50,317 --> 00:33:54,521 resembling modern atomic weapons. 485 00:33:55,158 --> 00:34:01,432 We also see descriptions of advanced technology, such as spacecraft. 486 00:34:01,769 --> 00:34:05,039 TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata and other sacred Indian texts, 487 00:34:05,107 --> 00:34:09,045 we can read that weapons of mass destruction were used that were 488 00:34:09,113 --> 00:34:13,952 brighter than a thousand suns when they were deployed. 489 00:34:16,992 --> 00:34:21,733 And afterwards, silence fell over the affected land. 490 00:34:23,370 --> 00:34:27,474 If nuclear weapons were deployed, the only logical 491 00:34:27,509 --> 00:34:32,316 conclusion is that their origin was in fact extraterrestrial. 492 00:34:32,851 --> 00:34:36,488 Is it possible that what we have here was in fact not an 493 00:34:36,523 --> 00:34:40,627 extinction, but an extermination event? 494 00:34:43,401 --> 00:34:46,370 NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs really have been exterminated by 495 00:34:46,406 --> 00:34:52,214 extraterrestrial beings, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe? 496 00:34:52,249 --> 00:34:56,587 And if so, could it be that some of them have in fact 497 00:34:56,622 --> 00:34:58,590 survived to this day? 498 00:35:01,362 --> 00:35:05,467 There are those who believe the answer is yes and that the 499 00:35:05,536 --> 00:35:11,277 evidence can be found in the creatures that exist right before our eyes. 500 00:35:17,278 --> 00:35:19,682 NARRATOR: Solnhofen, Germany. 501 00:35:19,750 --> 00:35:21,586 1861. 502 00:35:23,022 --> 00:35:28,095 Archaeologists discover a strange fossil embedded in limestone. 503 00:35:28,130 --> 00:35:33,370 Its features clearly identify it as a dinosaur, but with one 504 00:35:33,439 --> 00:35:36,208 exception: it has wings. 505 00:35:36,277 --> 00:35:41,015 They called it Archeopteryx, or "ancient wing." 506 00:35:41,017 --> 00:35:46,156 CHIAPPE: Archaeopteryx-- it's like the-the Mona Lisa of the fossil world. 507 00:35:46,192 --> 00:35:49,730 It's an animal that lived about 150 million years ago. 508 00:35:52,635 --> 00:35:58,175 It had a long bony tail, big claws, teeth in its mouth. 509 00:35:58,212 --> 00:35:59,311 It was a small animal. 510 00:35:59,346 --> 00:36:01,815 It was certainly a flyer. 511 00:36:01,851 --> 00:36:04,819 WILSON: We don't know anything about feathers before then. 512 00:36:04,855 --> 00:36:07,758 But we certainly see in Archaeopteryx that has feathers 513 00:36:07,826 --> 00:36:10,262 that are designed for flying. 514 00:36:13,067 --> 00:36:15,537 RUEHL: Now, the feathers may have been for warmth, they may 515 00:36:15,572 --> 00:36:18,541 have been for display to attract mates or perhaps to help them 516 00:36:18,577 --> 00:36:23,749 move faster when either chasing prey or being pursued themselves. 517 00:36:25,755 --> 00:36:29,592 The evidence appears to be very strong, because there are 518 00:36:29,628 --> 00:36:34,467 actually over 100 anatomical characteristics that are similar 519 00:36:34,536 --> 00:36:37,472 to birds and dinosaurs. 520 00:36:37,541 --> 00:36:40,811 And one theory is that T. rex, for example, has relatives 521 00:36:40,879 --> 00:36:46,119 today among chickens and ostriches. 522 00:36:46,154 --> 00:36:50,659 CHIAPPE: Nowadays, it's very well accepted that dinosaurs are not extinct. 523 00:36:50,728 --> 00:36:55,667 If you consider that we live with 10,000 species of living 524 00:36:55,736 --> 00:36:58,939 birds, that means 10,000 species of living dinosaurs. 525 00:36:58,974 --> 00:37:03,580 So many primitive birds that are very dinosaur-like, these are 526 00:37:03,615 --> 00:37:05,950 all missing links, if you want. 527 00:37:08,288 --> 00:37:12,694 NARRATOR: To date, Archaeopteryx is the only species of dinosaur 528 00:37:12,763 --> 00:37:16,634 paleontologists believe capable of flight. 529 00:37:16,669 --> 00:37:21,174 But if this is the only flying dinosaur ever discovered, how is 530 00:37:21,209 --> 00:37:25,314 it, as ancient astronaut theorists argue, that all modern 531 00:37:25,350 --> 00:37:28,621 birds could have stemmed from this one creature? 532 00:37:29,656 --> 00:37:33,561 And how is it possible that birds and certain reptiles with 533 00:37:33,630 --> 00:37:37,101 dinosaur genes were able to evolve? 534 00:37:38,003 --> 00:37:42,241 VON DANIKEN: According to evolution, all dinosaurs died 535 00:37:42,310 --> 00:37:45,680 out about 60 millions of years. 536 00:37:45,715 --> 00:37:49,886 First, there are many speculations what the reason is. 537 00:37:49,922 --> 00:37:54,394 It was said that it was an impact maybe created by a meteorite. 538 00:37:54,429 --> 00:38:00,470 But if this would be true, why only the dinosaurs died? 539 00:38:00,506 --> 00:38:04,677 It should be that all kind of animal were killed on Earth if 540 00:38:04,712 --> 00:38:06,346 you have a meteorite impact. 541 00:38:06,381 --> 00:38:07,748 So that's not the case. 542 00:38:07,817 --> 00:38:11,154 So the question is: why only the dinosaurs died? 543 00:38:15,494 --> 00:38:17,397 JONATHAN YOUNG: Some creatures that we are familiar 544 00:38:17,433 --> 00:38:21,704 with have survived from very long ago, cockroaches, 545 00:38:21,739 --> 00:38:25,209 crocodiles, sharks, lizards. 546 00:38:25,211 --> 00:38:28,348 So the possibility exists that there are some that we have not 547 00:38:28,383 --> 00:38:31,353 seen that may live at the very deep part of the ocean or in 548 00:38:31,388 --> 00:38:32,755 unexplored lakes. 549 00:38:32,790 --> 00:38:34,758 We don't know. 550 00:38:37,429 --> 00:38:41,636 RUEHL: We have a number of reports of lake monsters around the world. 551 00:38:41,704 --> 00:38:45,241 The most famous, of course, Loch Ness in Scotland. 552 00:38:45,277 --> 00:38:50,283 Are these dinosaurs that actually survived the devastation from 65 million 553 00:38:50,318 --> 00:38:53,254 years ago and found an ecological niche to survive in? 554 00:38:53,290 --> 00:38:57,761 For skeptics who believe that the dinosaurs died out 65 555 00:38:57,796 --> 00:39:02,902 million years ago, I point to the case of the coelacanth. 556 00:39:02,938 --> 00:39:06,676 This is a so-called fossil fish that was discovered off the 557 00:39:06,744 --> 00:39:09,445 coast of Madagascar back in 1938. 558 00:39:09,481 --> 00:39:12,251 Now, it was believed extinct for millions of years. 559 00:39:12,286 --> 00:39:14,787 It actually predated the dinosaurs. 560 00:39:14,823 --> 00:39:20,095 This is a large fish about five to six feet in length and 100 pounds. 561 00:39:24,171 --> 00:39:26,940 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the so-called evolutionary 562 00:39:26,977 --> 00:39:31,214 offspring of dinosaurs are a result of extraterrestrial 563 00:39:31,283 --> 00:39:35,822 intervention, as many ancient astronaut theorists believe? 564 00:39:35,857 --> 00:39:39,828 And if so, how and why? 565 00:39:39,863 --> 00:39:43,734 Some believe the answers can be found in the very bones of the 566 00:39:43,802 --> 00:39:45,738 dinosaurs themselves. 567 00:39:48,809 --> 00:39:53,216 In 1993, paleontologist Mary Schweitzer publishes a 568 00:39:53,251 --> 00:39:56,788 groundbreaking study concerning the fractured leg bone of a 569 00:39:56,857 --> 00:40:02,797 Tyrannosaurus rex, one presumed to be almost 70 million years old. 570 00:40:03,267 --> 00:40:07,405 Here, Schweitzer discovered the remains of blood vessels and 571 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,809 what appeared to be whole cells. 572 00:40:12,747 --> 00:40:17,087 Her discovery contradicted what most mainstream scientists had 573 00:40:17,122 --> 00:40:20,125 long believed about the perishable nature of the soft 574 00:40:20,161 --> 00:40:22,697 body tissue of dinosaurs. 575 00:40:23,933 --> 00:40:28,405 CHIAPPE: I think that the possibility of finding proteins 576 00:40:28,441 --> 00:40:33,246 or portions of DNA, say, in animals that lived hundreds of 577 00:40:33,282 --> 00:40:38,655 millions of years ago is certainly exciting because it opens up a world of 578 00:40:38,690 --> 00:40:43,362 paleogenetics, a world in which we can look at the genetic 579 00:40:43,431 --> 00:40:46,633 structure of this ancient organism in a way that 580 00:40:46,669 --> 00:40:49,137 we haven't been able to do thus far. 581 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,608 RUEHL: Now, the current thinking has been that 582 00:40:51,643 --> 00:40:55,482 everything of a soft nature like that would've been ossified and 583 00:40:55,517 --> 00:40:57,451 would not exist today. 584 00:40:57,487 --> 00:41:02,126 Her research apparently shows that there could be DNA samples 585 00:41:02,161 --> 00:41:07,334 inside dinosaur fossils that could be extracted and it could 586 00:41:07,369 --> 00:41:11,340 be used to actually recreate one or more dinosaurs, to actually 587 00:41:11,375 --> 00:41:15,346 give us a real Jurassic Park. 588 00:41:18,552 --> 00:41:21,356 NARRATOR: If scientists are getting closer to extracting 589 00:41:21,391 --> 00:41:26,030 viable DNA from dinosaur fossils, is it possible, as 590 00:41:26,065 --> 00:41:30,770 ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that extraterrestrials 591 00:41:30,839 --> 00:41:34,209 may have pioneered this technique thousands, or perhaps 592 00:41:34,244 --> 00:41:37,214 millions of years ago? 593 00:41:37,249 --> 00:41:40,786 And might they have manipulated that genetic material to make 594 00:41:40,855 --> 00:41:46,595 dinosaurs into numerous smaller, and arguably more manageable, species? 595 00:41:49,068 --> 00:41:52,973 TSOUKALOS: I think it is possible that the coelacanth 596 00:41:53,042 --> 00:41:59,317 survived due to a direct guarantee by extraterrestrials. 597 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:06,360 That they might have saved the coelacanth DNA and reintroduced 598 00:42:06,395 --> 00:42:08,731 the coelacanth into the world's 599 00:42:08,766 --> 00:42:13,604 oceans millions of years after it was extinct. 600 00:42:15,410 --> 00:42:19,381 And the same counts for crocodiles and turtles and all 601 00:42:19,416 --> 00:42:23,387 of those animals that we know of today that have survived from 602 00:42:23,422 --> 00:42:25,391 the age of the dinosaurs. 603 00:42:28,631 --> 00:42:32,002 CHIAPPE: It's very difficult to say what would have happened 604 00:42:32,070 --> 00:42:36,874 if the large dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era didn't become extinct. 605 00:42:37,245 --> 00:42:42,685 But there's no doubt that the world as we know it today, in my 606 00:42:42,754 --> 00:42:48,326 opinion, must have been forged by the disappearance of the dinosaurs. 607 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:53,835 VON DANIKEN: Maybe it was made on purpose by 608 00:42:53,871 --> 00:42:57,809 extraterrestrials simply because if the dinosaurs would have 609 00:42:57,844 --> 00:43:02,049 survived, they would have overtaken the planet Earth, and 610 00:43:02,117 --> 00:43:04,152 that was not in their plan. 611 00:43:04,187 --> 00:43:08,726 It was in their plan to create something like themselves, a 612 00:43:08,795 --> 00:43:10,395 human-like being. 613 00:43:10,464 --> 00:43:13,967 So the dinosaurs were not helpful in this game. 614 00:43:17,842 --> 00:43:21,680 NARRATOR: Might the extinction of dinosaurs have actually been a planned 615 00:43:21,716 --> 00:43:25,186 extermination by extraterrestrials? 616 00:43:25,722 --> 00:43:29,993 And could some dinosaurs have actually survived the event and 617 00:43:30,029 --> 00:43:35,270 even coexisted with man and still exist in another form? 618 00:43:36,405 --> 00:43:42,079 Perhaps the answers lie buried in every region of our globe. 619 00:43:42,148 --> 00:43:45,885 Because the more we learn about dinosaurs, the closer we may 620 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,924 come to discovering the truth about the extraterrestrial 621 00:43:49,993 --> 00:43:54,097 nature of the strangest creatures that ever lived on 622 00:43:54,297 --> 00:43:57,499 Planet Earth: ourselves. 623 00:43:57,599 --> 00:44:01,101 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com