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First Fossil Evidence That Velociraptors Hunted in Packs
Ponca City, We Love You writes "The New Scientist reports that palaeontologists have excavated a fossil trackway in Shandong Province in China 100 to 120 million years old that contains footprints left by six Dromeosaurs, the more formal name for raptors, showing evidence of group behavior. Up until now, the popular stereotype from Jurassic Park of raptors hunting in packs has had no fossil evidence to back it up. The paths of the six 90 kilo raptors do not overlap where the animals walked alongside a river or stream. '"The odds of these tracks being made by different individuals that just happen to be moving in the same direction, without their tracks stepping on one another, are small," said Jerry D. Harris, director of paleontology at Dixie State College. "Groups that do that usually have relatively sophisticated behavior, and they're relatively intelligent," Harris added. "By moving together in groups, it's entirely possible that they hunted in groups."'"
Eh, Hollywood sucks, but who is to say that they WOULDN'T have been able to figure out how to open a door, given the right motivation?
If by motivation you mean claws you could fillet a buffalo with, then probably they could, at least with most of the doors I see.
Granted, the mammalian brain has tens of millions of years of evolution over the dinos,
The dinosaurs had no need for a large brain, they were the dominant species, most of them were big, there was food, water, it was warm, and they either ate each other or vegetation. Intelligence would not confer an evolutionary advantage.
Same's true for most mammals today. They don't need large brains because what they have gives them all the advantages they need. We only got them because we were being stomped on, chased, mauled and eaten by almost anything else alive. It was get smart or die out. Ok that's a simplification, but how many truly smart top predators are there?
Don't worry, there's still mind control parasites to contend with - tinfoil hats won't help against those.
Well, not Jesus, but in the book of Daniel, you can read about a dragon called Bel in Babylon:
1:23 Now there was a large dragon, and the Babylonians used to revere it. 1:24 The king said to Daniel, "Surely you can't claim that this is not a living god. So worship it!" But Daniel replied, "I will worship the Lord my God alone, for he is the living God. 1:26 But, O king, if you will grant me authority I will put the dragon to death using neither sword nor staff." The king replied, "I grant you authority."
Most of the dragon stories (and most stories about other gods) were excised from the Bible by King James, but this one slipped through.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!