Yes they were and still are :)
no. they were around way before dinosaurs.
No. While alligators are related to dinosaurs they are not dinosaurs.
Because alligators were born after
In a sense, yes. Alligators are related to dinosaurs, or rather, are the only surviving dinosaurs that did not "evolve." Birds are also surviving dinosaurs, but they evolved from the larger, reptilian types of dinos. Alligators, and crocodiles, just got smaller. I know what you are thinking, "How does that answer the question? It asks if alligators are related to dragons, not dinosaurs." In ancient times, people referred to dinosaurs as dragons. Dragons are also mentioned in the Bible to refer to dinosaurs.
They are descended from archosaurs as dinosaurs are but an alligator is not a dinosaur.
Alligators
YES. Alligators
No. Dinosaurs and alligators (crocodilians) are two separate groups of archosaurs. They are related but dinosaurs are not "advanced" alligators. And evolutionarily it makes no sense to say an animal "just developed."
yes!
yes crocodiles and alligators are dinosaurs and some dinosaurs turned into birds
NO. Alligators are not dinosaurs. They are related though. Dinosaurs, Alligators and Crododiles belong to a group called archosauria. The only descendants of dinosaurs alive today are birds.
birds and alligators are ancestors of dinosaurs