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Living dinosaurs is a term sometimes used to denote birds, which are the only descendants of dinosaurs known to have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.
See:
- Living fossil, an informal term for animals such as crocodiles and tuataras, that are also occasionally called "living dinosaurs" by journalists.
- Origin of birds for information on the evolution of birds from dinosaurs.
- Lazarus taxon is a taxon that disappears from one or more periods of the fossil record, only to appear again later.
- Paleocene dinosaurs, controversial fossils of non-avian dinosaurs which may have survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction.
Mythology, fiction and speculation
The term is also used for non-avian dinosaurs that are either mythological or are claimed to exist today.
- Cryptozoology for speculation about dinosaurs surviving into modern times, although current scientific research does not support the existence of these dinosaurs.
- Creationist perspectives on dinosaurs for creationist beliefs on living dinosaurs, mainly in young earth creationism
- Jurassic Park for fiction about making dinosaurs live again
- The Lost World for seminal fiction about surviving dinosaurs
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