The Reptilians: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has the Silurians and their aquatic cousins the Sea Devils<ref>Both of these are technically [[Fantastic Slurs]]: the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] has "Earth Reptiles" as a more respectful term, and the Eleventh Doctor uses the taxonomically inaccurate "homo reptilia"</ref>. They are not extraterrestrials, but the previous inhabitants of Earth before humans came around. They do live underground and abduct people, though, which still fits in with Reptilian lore. There are also the Ice Warriors, the inhabitants of Mars, though their reptilian features aren't emphasized as much.

* [[David Icke]] is the most prominent advocate of the idea that Reptilians are real. He claims that they come from the Alpha [[Meaningful Name|Draconis]] star system, and that [[George W. Bush]], Elizabeth II, and many other world leaders are among their ranks.

* In [[The Eighties|the early eighties]], Dale Russell, curator of vertebrate fossils at a Canadian museum, proposed that, if the dinosaur genus Troodon [[Alternate History|hadn't died out]], it could have evolved into a sentient humanoid creature, christened "[http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodon#The_The .22Dinosauroid.22 |Dinosauroid]]" by Russel. Since then, the Dinosauroid (in appearance vaguely resembling a scaly [[The Greys|Grey alien]]) has been criticized as being implausible, because it is too anthropomorphic. Also, [[Science Marches On]], and now we know that Troodon's appearance probably had more in common with birds than with reptiles. Thus, when paleontologist [http://darrennaish.blogspot.com/2006/11/dinosauroids-revisited.html Darren Naish] and artist Nemo Ramjet revisited the concept during [[The Noughties]], the result was a decidedly less humanoid, err... [http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8094/2150/1600/dinosauroid.jpg Bird Folk].