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NARRATOR: Ancient carvings,

depicting dinosaurs with humans.

VON DANIKEN: Sometimes the
humans are even writing on the back

of the dinosaurs.

NARRATOR: The fossilized tracks
of the dinosaurs and men

discovered side by side...

DR. WILLIE E. DYE: We've

found human footprints,
dinosaurs and all types of

fossils that scientists tell us that
should not be in the same level,

we find them coexisting.

NARRATOR: And high levels of
radiation found in the bones

of a tyrannosaurus rex.

MICHAEL BARA: The reason they
had to paint them with lead

paint is because they discovered were
very, very intensely radioactive.

NARRATOR: Did the dinosaurs fall
victim to a cosmic collision?

Or were they deliberately killed off?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Is it
possible that what we have here

was in fact not an extinction,
but an extermination event?

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, will science reveal
the connection between aliens

and dinosaurs?

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NARRATOR:
Oxfordshire, England, 1819.

In a quarry just outside the
village of Stonesfield,

paleontologist William Buckland
discovers several fossilized

bones of an enormous unknown
animal, including portions of a

lower jaw with teeth still in place.

Though similar bones had
been found in the past,

Dr. Buckland was the first
European to officially record

the discovery of a "dinosaur,"

or as he called it, a megalosaurus.

Since then, dinosaurs have been
discovered on every continent

in the world.

LUIS CHIAPPE: There are all kinds
of dinosaurs that have been found.

You have plated dinosaurs
like the stegosaurus,

you have horn dinosaurs, you
have meat-eating dinosaurs, you

have all sorts of dinosaurs.

They live in very different
environments, deserts,

that we know, and no doubt
thousands more that we don't know.

They ranged in size from chicken-size
to the largest land animals ever.

CHIAPPE: The largest land animal
that we see today is the elephant.

But the elephant would be a
midget in comparison to one

of these titanosaurs.

You're talking an animal that
weighed maybe 25 times the

weight of an adult male elephant.

These animals reached lengths
of about a 120 feet and weights

of a hundred tons.

The plant-eaters would have been
dangerous simply because of their size.

Walking in between a herd of
titanosaurs that weighed at a

hundred tons, you know, would
have been deadly, probably,

let alone being
face-to-face with a T rex.

PHILIP COPPENS: The dinosaur
really speaks to us.

Every child has his fascination
with dinosaurs, and we know that

they were able to fly.

We know that they are
able to frighten you.

They are, to some extent,
supernatural creatures.

DAVID CHILDRESS: One of the
things with planet Earth was

that in ancient times,
everything was bigger and all

the animals were bigger
and plants were bigger.

Everything was gigantic.

CHIAPPE: The world of the dinosaurs was
completely different from our world.

During the age of the dinosaurs,
many other animals lived.

You have giant reptiles swimming
in the ocean, flying reptiles

flying over the heads of dinosaurs.

You also have insects, mammals,
amphibians and other creatures.

But dinosaurs were the
king of the land.

TSOUKALOS: We imagine in science
fiction what it would be

like to travel to an exotic,
exciting, strange alien world

where these giant creatures
roaming around the planet,

and it happened here on
Earth in our pre-history.

NARRATOR: While scientists
have been studying dinosaur

fossils for nearly 200 years,
their theories about what these

giant creatures were and how
they lived often change with

each new discovery.

Recently, paleontologists have
determined that tyrannosaurus

rex was most likely covered not
with scales, but with feathers.

WILSON: We found feathers of
dinosaurs that are actually

preserved in amber, and so
dinosaurs, we now believe that

many, if not most of them, had a
feathery covering of some kind.

We know they had very
complex behaviors.

They ate eggs that we find show
that many dinosaurs made nests

on the ground that they
protected from predators,

and they brought food to
the developing young.

CHIAPPE: In the past, we
envisioned dinosaurs as

lethargic, gigantic reptiles
that were slow and sluggish.

That notion has changed completely.

We interpret them now as
being much more active.

Many of them were feathered and
presumably they were warm-blooded.

We know that they grew very fast.

Essentially dinosaurs were very
atypical reptile, if you want.

We still have a lot to
learn about the dinosaurs.

WILSON: It used to be easy
to define a dinosaur.

But defining a dinosaur
has become more complex.

NARRATOR: But while
paleontologists continue to

discover information on the
lives of dinosaurs, ancient

astronaut theorists believe
there may be an otherworldly

connection to their demise.

JASON MARTELL: When looking
at dinosaurs,

there's some key questions that
really need to be answered.

We don't know their level
of intelligence, we don't

really know what happened to them.

More importantly, where
do they come from?

TSOUKALOS: Scientists truly believe
that dinosaurs ruled this planet for

165 million years.

In comparison, modern homo
sapiens-- humans-- have only

been around for about 200,000 years.

So dinosaurs are by far the dominant
species in the history of this Earth.

(roaring)

But in the early 1800's, if you
told someone the Earth used to

be teaming with giant beasts,
some of which weighed over a

hundred tons, that person would
say to you, "You're crazy."

And yet, today, the dinosaurs
are scientific fact.

Dinosaurs could very well have
been an early experiment by

extraterrestrials with life on Earth.

This planet has been capable of
supporting life for millions if

not billions of years.

NARRATOR: The accepted belief
within the scientific community

is that dinosaurs dominated the
planet until a catastrophic

event wiped them out
65 million years ago.

CHIAPPE: There was a mass
extinction that essentially

exterminated maybe 50%

of what was alive.

Among the 50% are the last
dinosaurs that lived during

the age of the dinosaurs.

Things like triceratops, T rex.

COPPENS: We are speculating, and
we have seen science trying

to come up with answers, and so
how the dinosaur disappeared is

something which is still an open
question to which science has

no answer so far.

TSOUKALOS: It is possible that
extraterrestrials may have

wanted to trade out the
dinosaurs for a more

intelligent species
in their likeness...

and Earth was the
perfect place to do it.

NARRATOR: Were the dinosaurs
killed off by a cosmic natural

event as mainstream
scientists believe?

Or might the dinosaurs have been
the target of extermination?

Perhaps the answer may be found
by examining numerous ancient

carvings and other artworks
-- in which dinosaurs and man

are shown to have coexisted.

NARRATOR: Planet Earth...
65 million years ago.

An eight-mile-wide asteroid
hurtles towards the planet at

approximately 12 miles per
second and strikes the region

now known as the Yucatan Peninsula...
with a force of

100 million megatons of TNT.

According to mainstream science,
this catastrophic event forever

changed the climate and the
topography of Earth and ended

the reign of the dinosaurs.

DAVID MORRISON: The object
that came in was eight or ten

miles in diameter.

That impact dug a deep hole,
lofted material into the

atmosphere, black dust, which
shrouded the planet in darkness

for months, maybe for
a couple of years.

MARK A. WILSON: There would
have been a time in which the

sunlight was simply shut out
from the Earth's surface, and

photosynthetic organisms, like
plants, would begin to die.

FRANKLIN RUEHL: The plant-
eating dinosaurs would have

nothing to eat and
would have died off.

The meat-eating dinosaurs would
then have nothing to eat either,

and this might've lasted
anywhere from five to ten years.

How quickly the extinction took
place is a matter of debate.

NARRATOR: But is it possible
that some species of dinosaur

actually survived this
cataclysmic event?

And not only survived but
thrived for several thousands,

or even millions, of years?

Perhaps clues can be recovered
near a crater where scientists

believe the giant asteroid
struck the Earth, right in the

heart of what is now
the Yucatan Peninsula.

Today, less than 90 miles
from the epicenter of the

asteroid impact, lies one of
the largest and best-preserved

cities of the ancient Maya,

Chichen Itza.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder
if it's not some strange

coincidence that the same spot,
the Yucatan, which experienced

this devastating asteroid
strike, which caused extinction

of the dinosaurs, is also the main
habitation area of the ancient Maya.

PHILIP COPPENS: Chichen Itza is
said to have been the place where

the Mayans made contact with the gods.

And I find it an extraordinary
coincidence of all the potential

places around the Gulf of
Mexico, which they could've

chosen, they took a place where
literally something fell from

the sky 65 million years ago.

And the Mayans believed that
this contact with the gods, this

contact with the sky, happened there,
up until the most recent of times.

And so, what we have here
is either a coincidence or

something else going on.

And, really, this something
else is only something, which

hardly anybody has touched
upon, but I think it is

something which really needs to
be explored in far more detail.

CHILDRESS: In the Mayan area
and other areas of Mexico,

there are curious
depictions of dinosaurs.

There's pterosaurs.

There's a famous dinosaur that
appears on one of the paintings

at Bonampak.

So you have to wonder just how
the Mayans knew about dinosaurs.

Supposedly, dinosaurs have been
extinct for millions of years.

NARRATOR: But if, as
mainstream scientists believe,

the dinosaurs had been
extinct for millions of years

before the evolution of
mankind on this planet,

then what would explain
the wealth of Mayan art

depicting interactions between
humans and what appear to be

dinosaurs-- found in the very area
where they supposedly died off?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that additional evidence

can be found in northern
Cambodia, at one of the largest

temple complexes in the world,

Angkor Wat.

Here, among the intricate stone
carvings that adorn the walls of

the sacred site, researchers
have been fascinated by numerous

images of animals that
supposedly roamed the region

where the temple was built.

But one, depicting what
appears to be a dinosaur, has

archaeologists and scholars
scratching their heads.

MARK A. WILSON: There's a
temple called Ta Prohm, and it

has a series of medallions that
are carved into its surface and

one medallion in particular has
attracted attention because it

looks like a stegosaurus.

And so some have cited this as
an example of a dinosaur that

lived into historical times.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: It's a
stegosaurus not as a skeleton,

but it's a stegosaurus with its
skin and muscles, as if somebody

saw it while it was alive.

So how is it possible that
the artist was able to carve

something like this?

Did they receive the knowledge
of something like this?

LUIS CHIAPPE: There is no doubt
that ancient civilizations

must have encountered
dinosaur remains.

Many of them lived in areas
where dinosaurs are very

abundant and I'm sure they
found them here and there.

I think that the fact that they
have incorporated what appears

to be dinosaurs in their
artistic depictions speaks of an

attempt to interpret them.

How exactly they interpret them,
I don't believe is clear.

Even 200 years ago, we had a
hard time figuring out how

the bones of dinosaurs fit together.

NARRATOR: What could explain
the ancient builders of

Angkor Wat having such a sophisticated
knowledge of dinosaur anatomy?

Could it be, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

that their knowledge came firsthand,
as the result of actual interaction?

NARRATOR: The Tsodilo Hills,
Northern Botswana, Africa.

Here, in 2001, archaeologists
discover what many believe to be

the world's oldest-known
religious artifact,

a 20-foot-long serpentine rock carving,
made over 70,000 years ago, by

the ancient San People.

DAVID ICKE: Serpent worship
is one of the oldest known

form of religious worship.

And it's absolutely
everywhere that you look.

NARRATOR: But might the enormous scale
of the serpent's head, measuring

six-and-a-half feet tall,
suggest that the carving

represented not a python...
but a dinosaur?

MICHAEL BARA: There's a lot of
ancient artwork that clearly

shows a actual reptilian species
being worshiped by humans.

Some sort of reptilian presence
that was here on the Earth in

the ancient past.

TSOUKALOS: The question is,
is it possible that our

ancestors saw something that
they tried to imitate and the

answer is a resounding yes.

COPPENS: Whenever it comes to
evidence of the possibility

that dinosaurs and mankind
existed, each time science has

tried to explain it away.

But we know the archeological
evidence really suggests that it

is not that straightforward.

It is definitely possible that our
earliest ancestors met dinosaurs.

NARRATOR: Might ancient
depictions of dinosaurs really

be proof that humans and dinosaurs
did, at one time, coexist?

According to mainstream
scientists, the notion is not

only incredible, but
downright impossible.

Unless, of course, they are
confronted with evidence

in the form of a fossilized
footprint of a dinosaur, side by

side with that of a human being.

NARRATOR: Dinosaur Valley
State Park.

Glen Rose, Texas.

Here, in 1930, Roland T.Bird, field
explorer for the American Museum,

reported finding "clearly defined"
human footprints alongside dinosaur

tracks in the same exposed
layer of riverbed limestone.

MICHAEL CREMO: Some researchers found
human footprints alongside the

footprints of dinosaurs.

There is other evidence, from
other parts of the world, that

shows that human beings like us
were present during the time of

the dinosaurs.

DYE: We've found human
footprints, dinosaurs and all

types of fossils that scientists
tell us that should not be in

the same level as man, but
we find them coexisting.

COPPENS: Now, we have never
thought about this because

science has told us that there are 65
million years between us and them.

But there is, again,
archaeological and geological

evidence to suggest that
this is not the case.

There are footprints which show
ancestors of ours and dinosaurs

in the same stratum.

NARRATOR: Could these
fossilized footprints really be

evidence that, at some point, humans
actually coexisted with dinosaurs?

According to mainstream
scientists, the fossil evidence

found at Dinosaur Valley
is inconclusive at best.

RUEHL: There are three basic
dinosaur eras-- the Triassic,

Jurassic and Cretaceous.

Actually, these were named not
for the dinosaurs, but for the

various rock structures that
were found at that time.

The Triassic dates back about
250 to 200 million years ago;

the Jurassic, 200 to 135 million
years ago; and the final, the

Cretaceous, 135 to 65
million years ago.

COPPENS: It is simply
impossible to say that every

single dinosaur of planet Earth
completely disappeared, and the

likelihood is that at least some
definitely survived for at least

several more million years.

NARRATOR: The most widely
used scientific method to

determine the age of fossils is by
a process known as carbon dating--

a technique that measures the rate
of decay and radioactivity in

an organic object.

BEN FIRMSTON: Carbon-14, it's
not a stable isotope, so it

decays over time, whereas the
C-12, carbon-12, does not decay,

so by measuring the two against
each other, we're able to get

very general age.

GRAHAM HANCOCK: In order to do carbon
dating, you need organic material.

You need wood or bone--
something that lived.

A piece of stone can't be
carbon-dated, and often,

archaeologists are reduced to
finding something under that

piece of stone, which is
organic, and dating that, and

then making the assumption, not
necessarily correct, that the

carving of the stone dates to the
period of the thing under it.

MICHAEL CREMO: For objects that
are millions of years old,

there is no scientific method
that will allow us to date the

object or bone itself.

They have to date the dinosaur
bone according to the age of the

deposits in which it is found.

There are methods that will allow
them to date these deposits.

COPPENS: Carbon dating results
don't get published in

peer review journals.

We have so many things happening
in the world of science whereby

it is clear that scientists
are playing a game.

And so this notion that somehow
dinosaurs completely disappeared

65 million years ago is now
something which science as such

is really beginning to
push holes in, as well.

CHRISTOPHER BUSBY: Carbon
dating assumes that the

concentration of radiocarbon,
carbon-14, is always a constant.

And I think this is an
assumption which may not be...

may not be true, because
carbon-14 is produced as a

result of certain cosmic ray
interactions in the atmosphere.

But if those cosmic ray
interactions changed in the

past, which they may well have
done, then the production of

carbon-14 that is present in the
atmosphere at the time when it

was fixed in whatever it is that
are being tested, will have not

been the same as it is now.

NARRATOR: But if the fossil
evidence of dinosaurs cannot be

reliably dated, might some
bones actually be from a time

thousands, or even millions,
of years after paleontologists

believe they became extinct?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is yes, and

they point to additional
evidence found in South America.

Ica, Peru.

Here, in 1961, workers in the
Ocucaje Desert unearthed a

collection of carved andesite
stones, many depicting what

appear to be human
encounters with dinosaurs.

And since then, approximately
50,000 of these mysterious

stones have been found
across the region.

VON DANIKEN: I have
photographed some hundreds of

them in a collection
in the city of Ica.

And there was an old professor, Dr.
Cabrera.

The Indians brought him stones
from all over the country of

Peru, and on these stones is
these fantastic engravings.

NARRATOR: Peruvian physician
Javier Cabrera began researching

what have become known as
the Ica stones in 1966.

Ranging in size from small
pebbles to large boulders,

Dr. Cabrera's museum preserves over
20,000 of the strange rock carvings.

VON DANIKEN: All dinosaurs died
about 60 millions of years

ago, so normally, no human being
should ever have seen a dinosaur.

But there are wonderful
pictures, engravings on stone,

where you see humans and
dinosaurs together.

Sometimes the humans are even riding
on the back of the dinosaurs.

DYE: What we have here is an Ica
burial stone, which is very

unique, and what it depicts is
that man and dinosaurs lived

contemporaneously.

We see the various triceratops,
brachiosaurus and T. rex--

those type of creatures.

So these Icas had to either see
them or they knew a lot more

about the dinosaurs, because
they drew them precisely.

NARRATOR: Although many
ancient astronaut theorists

believe the stones date from the
fifth century BC to the early

13th century AD, there are those
in the scientific community

who remain skeptical
about their origin.

But consider this-- just the
enormous number of stones would

have required that an artist
carve more than 1,000 of them

a year every year for 45 years.

But even if the Ica stones are proven
to be real, more questions remain.

What happened to the dinosaurs?

Did they simply get
hunted to extinction?

If so, by whom?

And why?

COPPENS: Imagine a period
in time when there are very

few human beings about on this planet.

And maybe there are dinosaurs about.

These beings could easily
kill our ancestors.

If our ancestors were in an
environment where there were

dinosaurs, this would be the
greatest threat to their survival.

NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs
have proven to be too big...

too territorial...
or simply too deadly for mankind

to allow their survival?

Or was their demise part of a
larger plan, not by humans,

but by otherworldly beings, as many
ancient astronaut theorists speculate?

And they believe further
evidence can be found in the

study of Earth-threatening asteroids.

NARRATOR: The United
States Capitol, 1992.

Congress authorizes funding for
the Spaceguard program, a global

network of telescopes designed
to scan the skies for

Earth-threatening asteroids.

As of 2011, NASA has identified
approximately 10,000 near-Earth

objects that could
potentially hit our planet.

MORRISON: Of all the natural
hazards that we know of--

earthquakes, volcano,
hurricanes, typhoons--

the impact hazard, the possibility
of us being hit by a comet or

asteroid, is the only
one we can eliminate.

You could never stop an
earthquake or a volcano.

But if we had a decade, two
decades warning of an object

that might hit the Earth, we do
have the technology, at least

in principle, to send a
spacecraft out and give it a

nudge and just slightly change
its orbit so it misses.

TSOUKALOS: If we can control
the trajectories of asteroids

to direct them away from Earth,
then it's certainly possible

that highly advanced
extraterrestrials could have had

the technology to direct an
asteroid towards Earth.

RUEHL: Did advanced E.T.'s
direct an asteroid to that spot?

It's within the realm of
feasibility that advanced E.T.'s

indeed directed an asteroid
to the Yucatan Peninsula.

CHIAPPE: The question is,

Was the impact enough to
trigger the extinction?

And that's what's controversial.

Some people believe that
that was enough; some people

believe that it wasn't.

NARRATOR: For decades,
mainstream scientists believed

that the asteroid that may have
been responsible for wiping

out the dinosaurs was a fragment of
a giant asteroid called Baptistina.

But on September 19, 2011,
NASA concluded that the deadly

asteroid may have had
a different origin.

MORRISON: Some people think
that they can guess what the

origin was of the object that
hit us 65 million years ago.

Others disagree.

We simply don't have enough data.

NARRATOR: But if the asteroid did
not break off of Baptistina,

where did it come from?

And is it possible, as some
ancient astronaut theorists

believe, that the object may not
have been an asteroid, but an

extraterrestrial weapon?

RUEHL: Perhaps the extinction was
triggered by advanced E.T.'s.

Specifically, they might have used
something to destroy the dinosaurs.

NARRATOR: In 1980, physicist
Luis Alvarez discovered a thin,

global layer of sediment nearly
65 million years old that

contains high levels of iridium, an
element not naturally found on Earth.

MORRISON: Those materials
probably came from an asteroid.

They could have come from a comet.

But they definitely came from
somewhere in the solar system

far beyond the Earth and moon.

NARRATOR: Iridium is believed
to be deposited on Earth by

celestial masses like meteors,
comets and asteroids.

But the rare element can also be
introduced into the atmosphere

as a byproduct of something else.

Fallout from a nuclear weapon.

But could the Earth's iridium
layer be physical proof that

advanced nuclear weapons had at
one time devastated our planet?

And might they have been
deliberately deployed in an

effort to wipe out the dinosaurs?

BARA: Most people don't realize
that most of the T.Rex

skeletons that are on
display at various museums

around the world-- for instance
the Field Museum in Chicago has

these dinosaur skeletons, these T.
rex skeletons, and they're

painted with a very specific
high-density lead paint.

Now, the reason they had to
paint them with lead paint is

because when they discovered
the bones of these T. rexes,

they discovered that they were
very, very intensely radioactive.

NARRATOR: But if dinosaurs
really fell victim to a nuclear

attack, might there be some
sort of tangible evidence?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the evidence does, in

fact, exist-- in the pages
of the ancient Hindu texts.

MARTELL: We can look into the
ancient Indian texts like the

Mahabharata, and there are clear
stories that describe lizards of

various sizes-- some even the
size of buildings-- at were

all mass-exterminated.

And it was because of the angry gods.

Now, we can look at this and say
it's mythology, or was there

some type of mass extinction-level
event caused by ancient aliens?

CREMO: If we look at the
records left in the ancient

Sanskrit writings of India, we
see descriptions of weapons

resembling modern atomic weapons.

We also see descriptions of advanced
technology, such as spacecraft.

TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata
and other sacred Indian texts,

we can read that weapons of mass
destruction were used that were

brighter than a thousand suns
when they were deployed.

And afterwards, silence fell
over the affected land.

If nuclear weapons were
deployed, the only logical

conclusion is that their origin
was in fact extraterrestrial.

Is it possible that what we
have here was in fact not an

extinction, but an extermination event?

NARRATOR: Might the dinosaurs
really have been exterminated by

extraterrestrial beings, as some
ancient astronaut theorists believe?

And if so, could it be that
some of them have in fact

survived to this day?

There are those who believe the
answer is yes and that the

evidence can be found in the creatures
that exist right before our eyes.

NARRATOR: Solnhofen, Germany.

1861.

Archaeologists discover a strange
fossil embedded in limestone.

Its features clearly identify
it as a dinosaur, but with one

exception: it has wings.

They called it Archeopteryx,
or "ancient wing."

CHIAPPE: Archaeopteryx-- it's like
the-the Mona Lisa of the fossil world.

It's an animal that lived
about 150 million years ago.

It had a long bony tail, big
claws, teeth in its mouth.

It was a small animal.

It was certainly a flyer.

WILSON: We don't know anything
about feathers before then.

But we certainly see in
Archaeopteryx that has feathers

that are designed for flying.

RUEHL: Now, the feathers may
have been for warmth, they may

have been for display to attract
mates or perhaps to help them

move faster when either chasing
prey or being pursued themselves.

The evidence appears to be
very strong, because there are

actually over 100 anatomical
characteristics that are similar

to birds and dinosaurs.

And one theory is that T.
rex, for example, has relatives

today among chickens and ostriches.

CHIAPPE: Nowadays, it's very well
accepted that dinosaurs are not extinct.

If you consider that we live
with 10,000 species of living

birds, that means 10,000
species of living dinosaurs.

So many primitive birds that are
very dinosaur-like, these are

all missing links, if you want.

NARRATOR: To date, Archaeopteryx
is the only species of dinosaur

paleontologists believe
capable of flight.

But if this is the only flying
dinosaur ever discovered, how is

it, as ancient astronaut
theorists argue, that all modern

birds could have stemmed
from this one creature?

And how is it possible that
birds and certain reptiles with

dinosaur genes were able to evolve?

VON DANIKEN: According to
evolution, all dinosaurs died

out about 60 millions of years.

First, there are many
speculations what the reason is.

It was said that it was an impact
maybe created by a meteorite.

But if this would be true,
why only the dinosaurs died?

It should be that all kind of
animal were killed on Earth if

you have a meteorite impact.

So that's not the case.

So the question is: why
only the dinosaurs died?

JONATHAN YOUNG: Some creatures
that we are familiar

with have survived from
very long ago, cockroaches,

crocodiles, sharks, lizards.

So the possibility exists that
there are some that we have not

seen that may live at the very
deep part of the ocean or in

unexplored lakes.

We don't know.

RUEHL: We have a number of reports
of lake monsters around the world.

The most famous, of course,
Loch Ness in Scotland.

Are these dinosaurs that actually
survived the devastation from 65 million

years ago and found an
ecological niche to survive in?

For skeptics who believe that
the dinosaurs died out 65

million years ago, I point to
the case of the coelacanth.

This is a so-called fossil fish
that was discovered off the

coast of Madagascar back in 1938.

Now, it was believed extinct
for millions of years.

It actually predated the dinosaurs.

This is a large fish about five to
six feet in length and 100 pounds.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the so-called evolutionary

offspring of dinosaurs are a
result of extraterrestrial

intervention, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe?

And if so, how and why?

Some believe the answers can be
found in the very bones of the

dinosaurs themselves.

In 1993, paleontologist
Mary Schweitzer publishes a

groundbreaking study concerning
the fractured leg bone of a

Tyrannosaurus rex, one presumed to
be almost 70 million years old.

Here, Schweitzer discovered the
remains of blood vessels and

what appeared to be whole cells.

Her discovery contradicted what
most mainstream scientists had

long believed about the
perishable nature of the soft

body tissue of dinosaurs.

CHIAPPE: I think that the
possibility of finding proteins

or portions of DNA, say, in
animals that lived hundreds of

millions of years ago is certainly
exciting because it opens up a world of

paleogenetics, a world in which
we can look at the genetic

structure of this ancient
organism in a way that

we haven't been able to do thus far.

RUEHL: Now, the current
thinking has been that

everything of a soft nature like
that would've been ossified and

would not exist today.

Her research apparently shows
that there could be DNA samples

inside dinosaur fossils that
could be extracted and it could

be used to actually recreate one
or more dinosaurs, to actually

give us a real Jurassic Park.

NARRATOR: If scientists are
getting closer to extracting

viable DNA from dinosaur
fossils, is it possible, as

ancient astronaut theorists
suggest, that extraterrestrials

may have pioneered this
technique thousands, or perhaps

millions of years ago?

And might they have manipulated
that genetic material to make

dinosaurs into numerous smaller, and
arguably more manageable, species?

TSOUKALOS: I think it is
possible that the coelacanth

survived due to a direct
guarantee by extraterrestrials.

That they might have saved the
coelacanth DNA and reintroduced

the coelacanth into the world's

oceans millions of years
after it was extinct.

And the same counts for
crocodiles and turtles and all

of those animals that we know of
today that have survived from

the age of the dinosaurs.

CHIAPPE: It's very difficult to
say what would have happened

if the large dinosaurs of the
Mesozoic era didn't become extinct.

But there's no doubt that the
world as we know it today, in my

opinion, must have been forged by
the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

VON DANIKEN: Maybe it
was made on purpose by

extraterrestrials simply because
if the dinosaurs would have

survived, they would have
overtaken the planet Earth, and

that was not in their plan.

It was in their plan to create
something like themselves, a

human-like being.

So the dinosaurs were not
helpful in this game.

NARRATOR: Might the extinction of
dinosaurs have actually been a planned

extermination by extraterrestrials?

And could some dinosaurs have
actually survived the event and

even coexisted with man and
still exist in another form?

Perhaps the answers lie buried
in every region of our globe.

Because the more we learn about
dinosaurs, the closer we may

come to discovering the truth
about the extraterrestrial

nature of the strangest
creatures that ever lived on

Planet Earth: ourselves.

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