Living dinosaur

Living dinosaurs is a term sometimes used to denote birds, which are the only clade of dinosaurs, other than a controversial group of fossils known as Paleocene dinosaurs, to have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. The term is also used for extinct species of dinosaurs that are claimed to exist today, a belief which is unsupported by scientific research.

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Science

• Origin of birds, the evolution of birds from dinosaurs.
• Living fossil, an informal term for animals such as crocodiles and tuataras, which are also occasionally called "living dinosaurs" by journalists.
• Paleocene dinosaurs, controversial fossils of non-avian dinosaurs which may have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
• Lazarus taxon, a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later.

Pseudoscience

• Living dinosaur (cryptozoology), the belief in surviving dinosaurs in cryptozoology.
  • Kasai rex, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living theropod.
  • Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living stegosaur.
  • Muhuru, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living stegosaur.
  • Mokele-mbembe, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living sauropod.
  • Emela-ntouka, an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living ceratopsian.

• Creationist perspectives on dinosaurs, creationist beliefs on living dinosaurs, mainly in Young Earth creationism.

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