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Yet there doesn't seem to have been a dinosaur nimble enough to perform intricate tasks like humans can. I guess evolutionary wise anything that could have headed down the path of human like ability would have been destroyed by the larger species before it had a chance to get to the level of out thinking and building them.

Dinosaurs were a superorder, not a species. To make it fair, you'd have to compare dinosaurs with euarchontoglires (rodents, rabbits, shrews, and primates collectively, humans included with primates). And you might even have to include birds with dinosaurs.

Give us a chance, despite all appearances, it isn't over yet for us.