Are dinosaurs alive today?

Are dinosaurs alive today?

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs

because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs.

                                                                     Dr Abe V Rotor

Author's children Marlo and Anna pose before a dinosaur fossil

 in an exhibit on natural history in QC-MM 1987

Even your tree has been felled,

your phylogeny now a memory;

for you were lost in the current,

in the repetitious mechanism

of the universe,

when one day stood still

while you were acting

in too many parts of the play,

in too long a time.

Your life is twice told, 

understanding it backward,

through the art 

of marble and mud. ~

Dinosaurs lived during three periods of geological time - the Triassic period (which was 252-201 million years ago), the Jurassic period (about 201-145 million years ago) and the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago). These three periods together make up the Mesozoic Era. Are dinosaurs still alive? In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. Internet ~