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Living dinosaur
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. See: • , a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later.
Pseudoscience
• , the belief in surviving dinosaurs in cryptozoology. • , an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living theropod. • , an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living stegosaur. • , an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living stegosaur. • , an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living sauropod. • , an alleged animal claimed by some to be a living ceratopsian. • , creationist beliefs on living dinosaurs, mainly in Young Earth creationism.
Science
• , the evolution of birds from dinosaurs. • , an informal term for animals such as crocodiles and tuataras, which are also occasionally called "living dinosaurs" by journalists. • , controversial fossils of non-avian dinosaurs which may have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
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