Morning Walk New York, July 12, 1976 760712MW.NY
Ramesvara:They are convinced that dinosaurs, these gigantic animals, were living on this planet millions of years ago. They found some bones, and they have created the form of the animal body. Tamala Krsna: Is it true that there were big dinosaur bodies? Prabhupada:If they were, it is still now. Tamala Krsna:Oh, wow. Prabhupada:We don't say it is extinct. Tamala Krsna:But you've explained that even if not here then it must be on another planet. Prabhupada: Yes, another. This planet, what you have seen? Ramesvara:That's the point, what we have seen about this planet? Devotee (1):Could still be here. They found one in, where is that? In Ireland? Prabhupada:Cannot be extinct, that is not possible. Devotee (1):In that lake? Tamala Krsna:But do you think they were on this planet? Prabhupada:No, no, may be on this planet, but it doesn't matter that it is extinct. You have not seen. Tamala Krsna:No, that's a fact. Ramesvara: Their idea is that at that time man was living in the form of half monkey, half man in a cave, and gradually he evolved to become more civilized. Prabhupada: That is still there. Kinnaras. Kinnaras means it is doubtful whether he is man or monkey. Tamala Krsna:Wow. Prabhupada:There is a Kinnara-loka. Kimpurusa. Kinnara. They are still existing. It is not that they are finished. Hari-sauri:I was reading a magazine when we were on the plane, and it was describing this type of monkey man, that they are being called, they existed in snow wastes. Prabhupada:Or what is called? The big…? Tamala Krsna:Orangutan, gorilla. Prabhupada:Gorilla, they are like men. Tamala Krsna:Yes, they are. Very much like men. We see them in the zoo. Prabhupada:They have got their senses like men. Hari-sauri:There's another species they call the Yetti. They say it exists in the Himalayan regions. But they've not been able to capture one because, uh… But there's been many citings and reportings of it.
Slideshow Discussion, Washington D.C., July 3, 1976 760703SS.WDC
Svarupa Damodara:Do we know that in detail, Srila Prabhupada? What type of species are extinct? Not all the species extinct. As it is during Brahma's day, that partial annihilation, devastation, now some species are extinct? Prabhupada:No species extinct. What you are reading? This is garbage.(?) Svarupa Damodara:The physical forms. Prabhupada:No, nothing is extinct. Everything is going on. Svarupa Damodara: At that point, they are going to come up with the point that “How about dinosaurs?” They are going to ask like that. Prabhupada:That is imagination, where is dinosaur finding. Svarupa Damodara:They say they have all the bones. Prabhupada:No, they are describing maybe another animal. That is existing. That is Timingila, they can swallow up big, big whale fishes. That big, bones, they are living still. Nothing is extinct. They are already there. Rupanuga:Did these dinosaurs exist, or is it just their imagination? Prabhupada:The big animal exists. I call it dinosaur or finosaur, that is your choice. Big animals existing. Timingila, I said the name, Timingila, still exist. Rupanuga: Still exist. Prabhupada:Oh, yes. They are always existing. Water elephants. There are elephants in water. Everything. Rupanuga:So there is no such thing as extinction. Prabhupada:No extinction, there is no question of extinction. Rupanuga:If these animals were on this planet some millions of years ago, they are still here, is that correct? Prabhupada:Yes. What do you know what are there within the water? You can take information from the sastras. It is not possible for you to see and go into the water, how big, big animals are there. Hari-sauri:But it's possible that an animal may disappear from one planet, but still be on another planet, though, like that. Prabhupada:No. Hari-sauri:Because they claim that even within recorded history… Prabhupada:They claim everything. That is… There is no question. Svarupa Damodara:(indistinct) fossil, they are called fossil record. Prabhupada: That is another thing. You can get a dead animal's body, but what is that? Svarupa Damodara: They claim that many species are extinct. Prabhupada:How they are extinct? Hari-sauri:Well, like, they say that within modern history, Prabhupada:First thing is they are all imperfect speculators. So what is the value of their sport? We don't take any value of it. Rupanuga:They don't know where these animals are, that's all. Prabhupada: They, simply like child, they are speculating. If he's imperfect, then what is the value of his speculation? There is no value. Svarupa Damodara:But then what happens at the time of partial devastation? At the end of Manu, the partial devastation, what happens to the species? Prabhupada:Happens means these different ways become destroyed, but again, during creation, they come in.
Morning Walk, Los Angeles, June 8, 1976 760608MW.LA
Ramesvara:Srila Prabhupada, I was once told by some devotees that you had said in some previous age of Kali, the dinosaurs, gigantic animals, were on the earth. Prabhupada: I said? Ramesvara:They say that you said. (laughs) Prabhupada:(laughs) I never said. I never bother with these nonsense things. Ramesvara:They have got so many bones in the museums showing these gigantic animals. Prabhupada:Not gigantic. There are bones. But that animal is still there, whalefish. Ramesvara:Whalefish. Prabhupada:Oh, yes. Very big body. Ramesvara:Some have become extinct. Prabhupada:Why they should be extinct? Hrdayananda:No longer on the earth. Ramesvara:No longer on this planet. Prabhupada:(too much noise) Not necessarily. They are within the ocean. Hari-sauri:No, other animals. Prabhupada: What other animals? Ramesvara: Those gigantic, they called them… Hrdayananda:Brontosaurus. Ramesvara:Tyrannosaurus. Gigantic animals, they say are meat-eaters. Hrdayananda:Dinosaurus. Hari-sauri:Tetrasaurus. Prabhupada:Another imagination. These are actual facts.(?) Hari-sauri:They just made up different compositions of bones and then drew some outlines on them. Prabhupada:Yes. They are imagination. Hari-sauri:But you said in Hawaii though that there are some animals that are as big as skyscrapers? Prabhupada: Yes, these are birds. It is far from this earth though. They travel from one planet to another. Ramesvara:So these bones that they have found of these gigantic animals, they were all living underneath the water. Prabhupada:Yes. Ramesvara:Not on the land. Prabhupada:Maybe. But the list is there: jalaja nava-laksani. There are 900,000 different forms, and how many we have seen? There is information in the sastra. Pasavas trimsal-laksani. Three million different types of animals. Hari-sauri:We've seen a few hundred at most. Prabhupada:That's all. (laughs) That is also doubtful.
Room Conversation, Hyderabad, April 14, 1975 750414RC.HYD
Devotee:Srila Prabhupada, the other day we were talking about proving different assumptions through archeological findings. Prabhupada: That is also bogus. Archeological findings is bogus. Brahmananda: But it seems that big skeletons of all these big dinosaurs… Prabhupada:That we have already information. We have got timingila. Just like big house. They can swallow up, what is called? Devotee:Whale. Whale. Prabhupada:Whale (indistinct). Tamala Krsna:No but these dinosaurs move on the land. They're not fish. And they're very big and we have information… Prabhupada:So what is to you? You are also a created being. He's also created being. That's the (indistinct). You are not creator of the (indistinct) Tamala Krsna:But you say that there was more intelligent life previously, whereas we see these dinosaurs were previously. Prabhupada:But you do not see, you simply imagine. Tamala Krsna:No. We have the skeletons. Devotee: We have the bones, the bones of animals. Prabhupada:But that's all right. There was a big animal, that's all. Just like you are a foolish animal, so there was a big animal. What is the difference? They are animals. Tamala Krsna:But we have skeletons showing the men at that time also and their brains were very tiny. Prabhupada:That you say. But I don't believe it. I have not seen.