0
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.
Wiki User
∙ 10y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
What is better lizards or dinosaurs?
Lizards are still around. The dinosaurs are extinct. Advantage lizards.
Is the Komodo dragon the last relative to dinosaurs?
No. As lizards, Komodo dragons are not closely related to dinosaurs. Birds are directly descended from dinosaurs and are considered to be dinosaurs be evolutionary bilogists. After that the closest relatives of dinosaurs are Komodo dragons.
Are dragons and dinosaurs lizards?
No, they are totally different from say Komodo dragons and lizards. Dinosaurs are reptiles and the main difference was the way they walked. They walked with their legs directly under their hips which is different from the way a lizard walks. Komodo dragons are lizards but huge ones.
Are frill lizards dinosaurs?
No. Frilled lizards are not dinosaurs, nor is any kind of lizard.
Are dinosuars even lizards?
Yes. Dinosaurs are lizards because the only kind of animals on earth with scales are lizards and dinosaurs have scales.
What are the release dates for Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards - 1970?
Dinosaurs the Terrible Lizards - 1970 was released on: USA: 1970
Are dinosaurs giant lizards?
yes because dinosaurs are big
What were dinosaurs called before they were called dinosaurs?
giant lizards
Why where dinosaurs so big?
Why dinosaurs were so big is because in prehistoric times there was no winter. and dinosaurs are lizards and lizards never stop growing. so mixed with humidity and surplus of food the dinosaurs or lizards lived for hundreds of years and grow all that time.
Are beaded dragons decended from dinosaurs?
Bearded dragons are lizards, and, like dinosaurs, lizards are reptiles. However, no lizards, including bearded dragons, evolved from dinosaurs. Birds, on the other hand, evolved from small, feathered, insectivorous or meat eating dinosaurs that lived in trees.
When is a saurus not a dinosaur?
No, dinosaurs are not lizards.
Did birds evolve from lizards?
No, birds didn't evolve from lizards, but they did evolve from dinosaurs, a different group of reptiles. Dinosaurs are different from lizards especially because of their hip structure. Birds descended from a group of dinosaurs known as theropods (bipedal carnivores)
