I thought the drop bear was a cryptid in the form of a fanged koala, not a real creature in any time in history.
Go fishing for Tully monsters. We’ll finally get some answers.
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Strictly speaking yes, but there are a few extinct species (Thylacoleo spp. in particular) that were effectively drop bears. Large, toothy koala-like marsupials that probably did hunt from trees :)
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I would like to see extinct plants come back to life. Then I could explore a Carboniferous forest of tree ferns and tree-sized club mosses, horsetails, and seed ferns. Of course, I would have to watch out for those alligator-like amphibians such as Eryops and Seymouria.
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I’d be excited to see some of the more recently extinct ones! The Las Vegas Dace is one of my favorite species ever and I think it would be especially neat to see one.
If dinosaurs came back suddenly, it would be cool to look at but I’d probably be a little concerned too lol
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I’ll just stick to Micropachycephalosaurus.
I’d probably freak out, buy a lot of PPE and a larger caliber gun or two, as well as a lot of bear spray. I have no way of knowing what diseases they bring or how they’d interact with us.
Passenger pigeons would be cool to see, but Utahraptor? Smilidons? Whatever extinct viruses have come and gone?
If dinosaurs would come back to life in their classic form (birds are somehow evolved dinosaurs) and no human would survive anyway, I’d spend all my money on a super good camera and iNat all dinosaurs in my way 
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If dinosaurs came back, I would spend most of my time INSIDE, and when going out I would make sure to not go alone and bring a bow and some arrows along (which I am pretty bad at using, but whatever).
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some can open door
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Not if I’m in an underground bunker.
The times that we killed them or the times that we jumped in bed with them?
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The bed aspect would be more comfortable both on a physical and metaphysical level.
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Not sure if many of these organisms would survive long in the modern world. The atmosphere has changed a lot since they were around. Less oxygen now I think.
Well if Steven Spielberg is correct.
I’d go iNatting for moa, adzebills, huia, piopio, and all sorts of birds in the NZ forest while watching out for Haast’s Eagle and Eyle’s Harrier. I’d travel to Australia and take a selfie with a Thyacline (are they extinct?) before going to Mauritius to feed some dodo. Then I would I would go to Hawaii to see some honeycreepers, and then go to North America to see some cool giant sloths.
How to train your Quetzalcoatlus. 
If nothing else it would be great to see how accurate scientific illustrations have been. Before the inevitable chaos anyway.
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Wait for the inevitable “World’s Deadliest: Dinos!” reboot on NatGeo.
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