are dinosaurs still alive?

Question

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Non-avian dinosaurs died out in the KT extinction event 65 million years ago, along with many avian dinosaurs. But the consensus among scientists now is that birds are direct descendants to the theropod dinosaurs (a group that included Tyrannosaurus, Gallimimus, Spinosaurus and Velociraptor, for all you Jurassic Park fans).

Indeed, in cladistic taxonomy the vertebrate class Aves is a monophyletic clade of Saurischian dinosaurs. Whether or not you then wish to consider birds to be living, avian dinosaurs or the dinosaur's only successors is up to you.

Turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodilians and tuataras all represent reptilian groups that existed during the Mesozoic alongside the dinosaurs, but they are not dinosaurs, nor are they descended from them. However, both crocodiles and dinosaurs evolved from archosaurs, extinct reptiles that pre-dated them both and represent their most recent common ancestors.

Answer 3

Well, actual huge T rex/Stegosarus type dinos are extinct, but there are many reptiles such as crocodiles and turtles that were alive back then and are sometimes called "living dinosaurs" Some amphibians have survived as well, so I suppose you could say that some dinosaurs are living, but not really

Answer 4

no, but some of the animals still alive were alive in the ages of dinosaurs like turtles. some descended from dinosaurs.

Answer 5

No, but crocodiles lived the same time as dinosaurs, and they are still alive. And birds are descended from dinosaurs.

Answer 6

yes the Nautilus a deep sea shell fish ,that fish with all the tentacles i forgot the name .they had a dinosaur shark on tv the other week with enormous teeth

,the great white is a dinosaur,so is the crocodile,ostrich ,and komodo dragon
and birds are supposed to be the dinosaurs continued ,
so that is lots

Answer 7

I think so here is why. there is a swamp in africa about the size of tenesse and if anyone goes in there they die because of a really poinese bug. but the people who make out alive and had never seen a pitchure of a dinisour they describe a lizard that is about the size and shape of a dinisour

Answer 8

technically, YES. crocodiles, alligatrors, birds, lizards and all ORIGINATED from dinosaurs........, and recently, i think that scientists found ONE living dinosaur(a turle type_) in the rainforest, or somethin' like that...........atleast that's what i heard(then turtleish dinsosaur was supposed to be the LAST on on earth!YIKES!THAT WOULD BE REALLY KOOL IF I GOT A CHANCE TO SEE THAT! I WOULDN'T MISS THAT LEGENDARY CHANCE FORSANYTHING;WELL, EXCEPT CHOCOLATE.), WAELL, SO YA..........

Answer 9

Evolutionists say the dinosaurs died out about 65 million years ago. How? Well, I’ve read that there are over 50 different theories. Let me just list a few.
-Mammals eating dinosaur eggs.
-New narcotic plants evolving.
-Global cooling/global warming.
-Loss of plants causing herbivores to starve which in turn caused the carnivores to starve.
-A supernova exploded nearby, spraying the earth with radiation.
-A passing comet poisoned the earth with chemicals.
-One of the current favorites is the “deep impact” theory proposed by the geologist Walter Alvarez in about 1980. This theory states that a meteor strike caused dramatic climate changes much like a “nuclear winter” which supposedly caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other animals. His evidence was his discovery of an alleged world-wide layer of clay with a high iridium content, which is found in meteorites. Well, there are plenty of papers that talk about the problems with this theory. One, is that the earth’s core also has iridium in it that can be brought up by volcanos. Many Creationists believe Noah's Flood would have caused the greatest volcanoes that there have ever been, and some believe God pelted the earth with meteors during the Flood as well.

Many evolutionists though, don’t think dinosaurs are extinct anyway. The entrance to the bird exhibit at the Cincinnati zoo in Ohio has or had a sign that said: “Dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago—or did they? No, birds are essentially modern short-tailed feathered dinosaurs.”

First of all, bird evolution is one of the most controversial areas in evolutionary paleontology and evolutionists often disagree and criticize each other.

We hear a lot of reports of feathered dinosaurs being found, but what you rarely hear, is that the main candidates are believed by many experts to simply be frayed collagen fibers, or hair like structures that could have supported a frill or crest like those on iguanas, or are on animals that are not dinosaurs, but flightless birds. The drawings are certainly not what we find; they are just the artists’ imagination. Dr. Alan Feduccia, a world authority on birds and an evolutionist, along with his coworkers have presented a substantial body of evidence to support their view that there are, in fact, no known dinosaurs with feathers (they believe birds evolved from different reptiles, but not dinosaurs).

And then you have ones like Archaeoraptor that was proven to be a hoax. Who knows how many times that will happen.

All these announcements of feathered dinosaurs cause a lot of media fanfare, but when they are refuted, there is scarcely a whimper in the media. There is usually a deafening silence when the latest “evidence” for evolution joins the long list of items which are no longer believed by evolutionists themselves.

You may be thinking, “But what about Archaeopteryx? That has been used for years and years.” Archaeopteryx was a true perching bird with fully formed wings and flight feathers, as well as a large wishbone for the attachment of muscles used for the downstroke of the wings.

So what is all the fuss about; why is Archaeopteryx such an icon of dino to bird evolution? Well, it had teeth in the bill, claws on the wings, no keel on the breast bone, an unfused backbone, and a long, bony tail, which are all characteristics most people associate with reptiles.

But as Dr. Gary Parker said, “...the reptile-like features are not really as reptile-like as you might suppose. The familiar ostrich, for example, has claws on its wings that are even more ‘reptile-like’ than those of Archaeopteryx. Several birds, such as the hoatzin, don’t have much of a keel. The penguin has unfused backbones and a bony tail. No living birds have socketed teeth, but some fossil birds do. Besides, some reptiles have teeth and some don’t, so the presence or absence of teeth is not particularly important in distinguishing the two groups.”

Dr. Alan Feduccia (like I said, an evolutionist, and by the way, one who doesn’t like creationists quoting him) said, “Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it’s not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of ‘paleobabble’ is going to change that.”

On top of that, scientists have found fossils of what they would call “true birds” in layers of rock that they date as being older than Archaeopteryx. That presents a problem for them.

I believe Archaeopteryx was something of a mosaic like a bat or platypus. Similar structures can just as easily point to a common designer. God knew what designs would work well in multiple animals. What they need to find, is a fossil showing scales turning into feathers, or a leg turning into a wing, or the reptile lung turning into the avian lung. How you can take a “two-way” reptile lung and evolve it into a fully functional “one-way” bird lung without causing extinction of the species is quite a conundrum.

And there are other problems. Feduccia and his team studied bird embryos under a microscope and published their study in the journal Science. They reported, “New research shows that birds lack the embryonic thumb that dinosaurs had, suggesting that it is ‘almost impossible’ for the species to be closely related.”

And then there is the new T-rex and chicken link based on that T-rex soft tissue they found. But as usual, we don’t ever get to hear the whole story. Dr. David DeWitt commented on this and said, “Of all the organisms in the sequence database, the one that matched T. rex the closest was the chicken. Now, before assuming that this would be strong evidence that birds are related to dinosaurs, it must be put into perspective. The sequence similarity between the T. rex and the chicken was 58%, while it was only 51% similar to both frogs and newts. This compares with a reported 81% similarity between humans and frogs, and 97% between humans and cows. Moreover, while some of the peptide fragments showed sequence matches to chickens, others matched frog, or newt, or even fish and mice. The authors did point out that not all organisms are in the database. Although the chicken was the closest match from the database, it is possible that animals not included could be a closer match. Regardless, such similarity does not prove that the organisms shared an evolutionary ancestor.”

There is no credible evidence that dinosaurs evolved into birds. Dinosaurs have always been dinosaurs and birds have always been birds.

I’m sorry to say, but many of the dinosaurs and maybe all of them are extinct today. So why did they die off? Well, many Creationists believe the flood would have drastically changed the climate of the earth (cooler temperatures, more radiation, etc.), and that there was a short ice age after the Flood. Some Creationists think the dinosaurs that survived the Flood where not able to cope so well in the new environment. They also believe that is the reason why man’s life-span shortened so much after the flood.

Another possibility is that dinosaurs may have become extinct for the same reason that many animals become extinct today. Why do we have endangered species programs? Extinction is the rule. Why? People killing them, lack of food, man destroying the environment, catastrophes, disease, genetic problems, and so on. I’ve read that in the last 350 years, about 400 species have disappeared and some say the number is much greater. Of course we are talking about species and not Genesis kinds.

Let’s think for a minute—countries all over the world have stories of dragon slayers. Perhaps man killed them for food, sport, or because they were a nuisance. I think we just didn’t start our endangered species programs early enough.

Another thing, is that there have been (even recently) reports of strange animals in the amazon and the congo that sound a lot like dinosaurs. And there are reports of giant flying reptiles in Indonesia, and so forth. There are thousands of square miles of almost impenetrable swamps and thick jungle in the world. Natives in some of these places describe beasts that fit with what just might be dinosaurs. And what about all the sightings of lake monsters? This is a field called cryptozoology—the search for hidden animals. There just might be a few dinosaurs left, teetering on the edge of extinction. We are constantly discovering new species of animals and plants in remote areas. A tree can’t run away and hide and yet the Wollemi pine tree avoided detection until just recently (said to have become extinct millions of years ago). An evolutionist has to say, “No way.” But a creationist has no problem with this and can say, “Maybe.”

Answer 10

No, dinosaurs are extinct. They've been dead for many years. Their remains (bones) is the only thing left of them.

Answer 11

maybe it's just your imagination going wild.


but some creature like the frill shark existed
only it died not long after