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Which is a direct living descendant of dinosaurs parrot allagator hippo or dragon fly?

Parrots


Is a Hippo a direct descendant of dinosaurs?

No. Hippos are mammals, which are a completely separate branch of animals from the dinosaurs.


What present day animal is most likely to be related to the Parasaurolophus?

No living creatures are vaguely similar to Parasaurolophus - if there are please correct me - but I would say birds, since they are the dinosaurs' direct descendant.


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


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.


What animal is the direct living decendant of dinosaurs?

A Chicken


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 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.


Who is the direct living descendant of Robert the Bruce?

The direct living descendant of Robert the Bruce is the current head of the House of Stuart, namely the 21st Earl of Elgin, who is known as the Honorable Simon Fraser. He is a direct descendant through the line of Robert the Bruce's daughter, Marjorie Bruce, who married Walter Stewart, the 6th High Steward of Scotland. This lineage connects back to the royal line of Scotland, stemming from Bruce's reign in the early 14th century.


What are the living ancestors of dinosaurs?

Birds are considered the living ancestors of dinosaurs. Modern birds evolved from a group of two-legged dinosaurs known as theropods, which also included the iconic Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor. Birds share many similar traits with their dinosaur ancestors, such as hollow bones and feathers.


Do dinosaurs exist today?

Many tribes deep in the amazon have elders that have reportedly seen live giant lizards described like our "long neck".There have been enough sightings of unusually large creatures through the years to raise the question of whether or not dinosaurs still exist. For scientific purposes, however, it seems the dinosaurs' closest living reptile is not the crocodile, as many imagine, but in fact the tuatara of New Zealand.


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.