• Question: is it possible that dinosaurs could live in our world today ?

    Asked by 101owen101 to Jonathan, Samantha, Sam on 5 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Jonathan Kay

      Jonathan Kay answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      Dinosaurs do live in our world today. All living birds are dinosaurs. Honestly. Isn’t that great?

      The giant dinosaurs that don’t exist any more could almost certainly live in our world. We don’t know anything in the environment that would stop them.

    • Photo: Samantha Weaver

      Samantha Weaver answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      Absolutely – as long as there was enough food for them to eat. Some lizards and reptiles are very dinosaur-like such as komodo dragons and crocodiles and like Jonathan said birds are descended from dinosaurs!

    • Photo: Sam Chilka

      Sam Chilka answered on 5 Jul 2012:


      The large dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago. Scientists think that a huge meteorite crashed into the earth, causing a rapid change in climate, and the dinosaurs couldn’t adapt quick enough. If the dinosaurs hadn’t become extinct, there doesn’t seem to be anything in today’s world that could stop them living.
      However, if dinosaurs had survived til today, it’s likely that human beings wouldn’t have evolved. So it’s not likely that we would be living among dinosaurs today!

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