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Are cassowary birds related to dinosaurs?
Yes. All birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs and are considered by many to be dinosaurs.
What is a direct living descendant of Dinosaurs?
Birds
Are birds dinosares?
They are direct decendants of dinosaurs
Did dinosaurs completely die out?
Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs so they did not die out.
Are there any living relatives of the dinosaur?
Yes. In fact birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs, and many consider them to be dinosaurs. Crocodiles are also related to dinosaurs.
Are turkeys dinosaurs?
No. Turtle are from a branch of reptiles completely separate from dinosaurs.
do lizards descend directly from dinosaurs?
The prevailing opinion of evolutionary biologists is that lizards are not directly descended from dinosaurs but are related species which diverged from the dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago. However, dinosaurs do have direct living descendants, and those are the birds. Birds descend from dinosaurs.
Are there any gigantic dinosaurs living today?
No, the dinosaurs are now all extinct, though some people believe that birds are evolved from dinosaurs and are their direct descendants.
How are birds and dinosaurs closely related?
Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs and are considered by many to be dinosaurs. Birds emerged in the later Jurassic period, branching of from a group of dinosaurs called theropods, two legged animals that accounted for all carnivorous dinosaurs. Many theropod dinosaurs show birdlike traits (including feathers on many species), particularly dromaeosaurs such as velociraptor.
Is a direct living descendant of dinosaurs a parrot or an alligator or a dragonfly or a hippo?
The Parrot would be the direct ancestor of the Dinosaur. The therapod line is believed to be the line that turned into our modern day birds. There are many similarities between therapods and our modern birds. There is some debate on this theory still but there are many who believe that the birds are direct descendants of the dinosaurs
Did dinosaurs morph into early birds?
In all likelihood, yes. Their are mountains of evidence pointing to birds having a dinosaur ancestor.
Currently there is a controversy over whether which of the following organisms is a direct descendant of dinosaurs?
Recent discoveries have virtually proved the the birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs.In fact the similarities between birds and some avian dinosaurs have lead scientists to begin to consider birds as not only evolving from dinosaurs but actually being dinosaurs in their own right.
