2006-11-23 08:58:06 · 36 answers · asked by cristian.t@btopenworld.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Probably a komodo dragon or crocodile. Most people don't know what a komodo dragon is so I have included a link with some pictures.
2006-11-23 12:42:10 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately most people have replied with alligators or crocodiles. However, these are not descended from dinosaurs but are descended from other reptiles that were around at the same time. The actual descendants of dinosaurs today are birds.
2006-11-24 03:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birds are the direct descendents of dinosaurs. Check the link for the publication from 2005.
2006-11-23 09:25:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many people would say to this that the crocodile or alligator is the closest thing to dinosaurs. This could be due to the fact that they are descended from creatures from prehistoric times that very closely resembled them (the name escapes me). However I would say the closest thing to modern day dinosaurs would be the Komodo Dragon (very large carnivorous lizard).
2006-11-23 09:09:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the closest relative is a dinosaur skeleton
2006-11-24 03:15:21 · answer #5 · answered by knowledge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might be surprising to you, but current thinking is that the nearest relatives of dinosaurs in today's world are the ordinary barnyard chickens we eat and that supply us with eggs.
2006-11-23 10:51:38 · answer #6 · answered by JIMBO 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Birds
2006-11-23 08:59:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
pigeons are the closest to dinosaurs
2006-11-23 09:06:05 · answer #8 · answered by tony200423man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some birds because some smaller dinosaurs had evolved in to
them and they still exist today!i am not joking
compsugnathus had a similiar bone structure to Archeopteryx.
so compsugnathus could have evolved.
2006-11-23 09:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by ustaadji 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Margerat Thatcher
2006-11-23 08:59:54 · answer #10 · answered by tfd 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋