Could dinosaurs be living today

Answer 1

It depends on which environment and which dinosaur. You couldn't have a carcharadontosaurus in Siberia but you could have a spinosaurus in the everglades, there are to many variables to give a defanit answer but yes certain dinosaurs could live in certain environments around the world.

Answer 2

Yes and no.

Dinosaurs themselves died out 65 million years ago.

However, those that survived have evolved into some of the creatures around us today.

For example, the skeleton of the Meyerasaurus is extremely similar to the skeleton that modern-day turtles have. The Protosphyraena is very similar to the modern day swordfish and the Ichthyosaur resembles dolphins.

Some believe that dinosaurs evolved into birds. In some sense this is correct, but in another sense this is not correct. Flying creatures were not dinosaurs, they were actually a completely different class called pterosaurs.

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The above answer was given to the question 'Are dinosaurs still alive today?" which was merged with the question ''Coulddinosaurs still be alive today?" - which probably means: 'could they survive today if they somehow were magically brought back to life again?'

Here the answer is also 'yes and no', but for different reasons. There were a great many species of dinosaurs, living off a wide variety of food. The marine species living off a fairly wide assortment of fish would - if brought to life in seas with the right temperature - probably have no problem feeding and surviving.

Land species would face a much harder challenge, since most of the plants or prey animals they fed on do no longer exist, and changing your hunting or grazing habits (and getting your intestines to process that new food) usually takes generations. So most of them would probably starve. They might also be much more vulnerable to the changes in our climate and CO2 and oxygen levels that happened since their heyday.

Answer 3

No, they depended too greatly on the vast openness of the world and the prey they were easily presented with. Being such huge creatures, they wouldn't be able to survive the on-going destruction of man. There is no location in which they could live freely, and so many of the creatures they preyed upon are extinct, dying, or don't have a high enough population to maintain such a massive creatures diet. Man has a tendency to kill what he fears or what gets in his way, especially in this day and age, animals are locked in zoos or hardly survive in what little area of wild is left. Dinosaurs sadly, have no hope of survival in this world.

answ2. The closest relative of the dinosaurs living today is the Tuatara of New Zealand, but even it has evolved somewhat since the dinosaur age.

The age of the dinosaurs (and many other genera and species) ended with the destruction caused (probably) by the bolide that landed at Chixculub in the Yucatan peninsula, Mexico, about 65 million years ago.

Modern thought tends to suggest that our birds descended from dinosaurs.

And by the way, not all dino's were large, many were small animals.