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Yes, there are dinosaurs alive today and dinosaurs are not considered extinct.
There was a mass extinction event about 65 million years ago, which killed off most dinosaur groups, such as the hadrosaurs, stegosaurs, allosaurs, tyrannosaurs, ceratopsians etc.
So there are no dinosaurs alive today that existed 65 million years ago, like Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops etc, that is, non-avian dinosaurs.
It is now widely accepted by paleontologists that birds are theropod dinosaurs and therefore the group dinosauria has survived to the present.
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In response to the first answer, birds are the ONLY descendants of dinosaurs, and no other reptiles.
-Ecoguru
I have modified the answer to btter reflect current thinking.
-Dinosauria.
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Actually the closest species to the dinosaur is the Tuatara considering it was around back when the dinosaurs went extinct
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No, it isn't. The tuatara is a sphenodontian and while members of that clade indeed did exist during the Mesozoic, they were not and are not the closest relatives of dinosaurs (they are no more closely related to dinosaurs than lizards or snakes). The closest living relatives of dinosaurs are the birds (who are actually dinosaurs themselves) and after that, the crocodilians, which are archosaurs (a group to which the dinosaurs belong).
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Is there any type of dinosaur left?
Scientists consider birds a type of dinosaur. Birds are still alive and abundant.
What the largest living DINOSAUR?
Dinosaurs are not alive any more duma$$
Are any known dinosaurs alive today?
Crocodile is an ivolved dinosaur if that's any help
What is the smartest dinosaur in the world?
None. There are none alive. If any of them were smart, they wouldn't be extinct
What was the fastist dinosaur alive?
Drowiceiomimus.
What year did the dinosaurs of dinosaur tracks alive?
The dinosaur tracks dinosaurs were alive from the late Cretaceous period up to the Phrongassic period.
The oldest dinosaur on Earth?
The oldest dinosaur was alive in the triassic period and is called the Melanorosaurus.
Is the minmi dinosaur still alive today?
No.
Is a dinosaur biotic?
"Biotic" refers to anything that is alive. Dinosaurs were alive, so they were biotic.
What did the dinosaur look like when it was alive?
It depends what type of dinosaur it is, most dinosaur books have pictures of them though, but most of them looked like big lizards or monsters.
Is a rhino a dinousaur?
No the rhino is not a dinosaur because dinosaurs have been gone for thousands of years and rhinos wouldn't be alive if it was a dinosaur and that is your answer.
When did the first dinosaur alive?
The earliest known dinosaur Eoraptor lived about 230 million years ago in the Triassic period.
