Are Dinosaurs Still Alive? (2024)

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Are Dinosaurs Still Alive? ›

The non-avian dinosaur part of the evolutionary tree went extinct about 66 million years ago, likely due to a catastrophic event such as an asteroid impact, leaving no real dinosaurs alive today except for their bird descendants.

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.

They are a group of reptiles that lived between 245 and 66 million years ago. Approximately 66-65 million years ago, the non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The reasons for extinction are still debated.

God told Noah, “And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female” (Genesis 6:19). A few small dinosaurs would have been on the ark. The larger species of dinosaurs were probably young and smaller on the ark.

It is exciting to imagine that gigantic dinosaurs are still rumbling and lumbering around in some remote part of the world. But no evidence of this exists. There are no cousins of Tyrannosaurus rex stomping through the vast woods of Siberia, no Apatosaurus ambling through the Congo rainforest.

Studies of air bubbles trapped in amber show that the atmosphere of the Cretaceous may have had up to 35 per cent oxygen, compared to today's 21 per cent. For T. Rex this would feel like he was at the base camp of Everest. In such thin air dinosaurs would be too breathless to chase hapless tourists.

Unfortunately, dinosaurs probably cannot be cloned and brought back to life. Their DNA is too old since dinosaurs have been extinct for over 65 million years. Any genetic information is not likely to survive for one million years, so the dinosaurs are simply too old to be cloned.

Dinosaurs lived on all of the continents. At the beginning of the age of dinosaurs (during the Triassic Period, about 230 million years ago), the continents were arranged together as a single supercontinent called Pangea. During the 165 million years of dinosaur existence this supercontinent slowly broke apart.

This belief is based on the supposition that the Bible teaches in Genesis chapter 1 that the earth and the human race was created by God some 6000 years old and therefore the dinosaurs – a part of creation -- lived with Adam and Eve and their children.

After the dinosaurs died out, nearly 65 million years passed before people appeared on Earth. However, small mammals (including shrew-sized primates) were alive at the time of the dinosaurs.

Did dinosaurs exist at the same time as Jesus? ›

Based on the Bible's account of both creation and the flood, we should expect that dinosaurs and men were contemporaries. We are continually told, however, that dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago.

The Bible does not give a date for the creation of the Earth, and does not even seem to care what that date may have been.

The other planets are individualized in the Bible only by implication. The worship of gods connected with them is denounced, but without any manifest intention of referring to the heavenly bodies.

Birds: Flying Descendants of Dinosaurs

Birds are the only direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs. In an evolutionary sense, they're the closest thing we have to living dinosaurs. The theropods — which include the Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor and other dinosaurs — were a diverse group of bipedal carnivores.

All non avian and some avian dinosaurs died in the extinction event 66 million years ago along with many other animals and species. But a few branches of what we call birds survived. So dinosaurs exist today as birds. Yes.

Not all dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Avian dinosaurs—in other words, birds—survived and flourished.

were NEVER seen by humans because they went extinct when a huge meteor slammed into the Earth some 66 Million years ago. The first human beings did not exist until around 65 Million years later. They could not have seen them because there were no humans back then.

Scientists believe dinosaurs, which have been extinct on Earth for over 65 million years, might actually be living on other planets, according to research in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Dinosaurs went extinct about 65 million years ago (at the end of the Cretaceous Period), after living on Earth for about 165 million years.