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Could humans have tamed dinosaurs, if they had coexisted?

Beast of burden? Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Universal
Beast of burden? Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/Universal

If early modern man had coexisted with dinosaurs – and I know that their time on earth didn’t coincide, but if it did – could humanity have domesticated dinosaurs in the same way that we did, say, with cows? I appreciate that we wouldn’t have exactly been riding them around as transport, but could we have put harnesses on the big placid ones to drag or move things, for example?

Kathryn Dignan

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