Children playing in wet weather clothes near a replica of a velociraptor.
Children playing in a dinosaur exhibit in in Woodland Hills, California. A paleontologist has weighed in on which dinosaurs would be most dangerous to humans.
  • Dinosaurs have fascinated humans for centuries, even though they never overlapped with humankind. 
  • Still, we know enough about their characteristics to imagine living together. 
  • A paleontologist helped Insider rank which dinosaurs would have been the most dangerous to us. 

Humans and dinosaurs never lived at the same time. But what if they did? Which would be the dinosaurs you should be most afraid of? 

Paleontologists have been studying dinosaur remains for decades, uncovering the incredible ways they developed to protect themselves and attack others.