Not BBC.There was a BBC series out a few years back called Primeval. It had plenty of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.
In the US, the show aired on BBC America? It was a great show.Not BBC.
Sadly, that show ended because of low ratings. I enjoyed it anyway.
It was made for ITV, but they did a distribution deal with BBC America.In the US, the show aired on BBC America? It was a great show.
proto teeth are still fairly common in some birds.
So what is the closest living animal to a dinosaur?
On superficial looks alone, I guess a Saltwater Croc, Komodo Dragon or those species of lizard that resort to a bipedal gait when in a hurry spring to mind.
In reality though, would it be a chicken, goose or ostrich?
What about armadillos?Crocodilians, as they're archosaurs like dinosaurs, pterosaurs and some assorted other scaly things. Birds can't be dinosaur relatives as they are themselves dinosaurs.
Crusty on the outside smooth on the inside.What about armadillos?
Crocodiles share a more recent ancestor with dinosaurs than squamates (lizards and snakes). Among the dinosaurs, theropods like t-rex and velociraptor share a more recent ancestor with birds (which are also dinosaurs) than with triceratops or brachiosaurus. So the mighty t-rex is more closely related to chickens than to the triceratopses he was always scrapping with.So what is the closest living animal to a dinosaur?
On superficial looks alone, I guess a Saltwater Croc, Komodo Dragon or those species of lizard that resort to a bipedal gait when in a hurry spring to mind.
In reality though, would it be a chicken, goose or ostrich?
What about armadillos?
What about armadillos?
Convergent evolution. More so with the glyptodonts, the ankylosaurs of their time.Isn't it odd, though, how an armadillo looks so dinosaur-like?
Did you mean “armadillos” of their time? They were early armadillos.Convergent evolution. More so with the glyptodonts, the ankylosaurs of their time.
No, I meant through convergent evolution they resembled ankylosaurs. To say 'they were the armadillos of their time' would certainly have been literally true, but wouldn't have had much to do with convergent evolution.Did you mean “armadillos” of their time? They were early armadillos.
I didn't know about them. I'll Google them tomorrow.Another group the Meiolaniidae also adopted the characteristics of thick body armour and clubbed tail shared by glyptodonts and ankylosaurs, although as they were land turtles, the thick body armour part isn't too surprising. This lot get overlooked but like the land crocodiles they shared their environments with, they were remarkable animals which survived until very recently.
I didn't know about them. I'll Google them tomorrow.
Armadillos are mammals, not reptiles and not related to dinosaurs at all.What about armadillos?
So what is the closest living animal to a dinosaur?
On superficial looks alone, I guess a Saltwater Croc, Komodo Dragon or those species of lizard that resort to a bipedal gait when in a hurry spring to mind.
In reality though, would it be a chicken, goose or ostrich?
Flying lizards?Birds are Dinosaurs so the question should be what are the closest living animals to birds?
Birds are Dinosaurs so the question should be what are the closest living animals to birds?
Sorry I wasn't trying to be smart its just a lot of people don't think that birds are dinosaurs at all, in the same way that they think that Pterosaurs, Mosasaurs, pliosaurs etc were Dinosaurs when they were not.Extinct non-avian dinosaurs then (which is what most people mean when referring to dinosaurs.
When Alfred Hitchcock's brilliant thriller The Birds is shown on TV, the description will never call it a movie about dinosaurs.
As for what bird most closely resembles its therapod ancestors, goosy-teeth notwithstanding, I would have to plump for the Cassowary, Ostrich or, our old friend, the Shoebill Stork.
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Good call.My vote would be for the Hoatzin. The chicks have claws on the wings to enable them to climb. The claws disappear in adulthood
.. in the same way that they think that Pterosaurs, Mosasaurs, pliosaurs etc were Dinosaurs when they were not.
There is nothing about these claims that is remotely believable. I very strongly disagree with Shuker's unfounded promotion of dinosaur survivors. The good evidence for this is nil.*bump*
Living dinosaurs in Papua New Guinea?
"Tim Neville is an Australian who worked for the Wallindi Plantation Resort at Kimbe, West New Britain in Papua New Guinea. In 1992-93, Tim was diving off the east coast of Alage (Aui) Island, located off the south coast of West New Britain between Kandrian and Gasmata. While diving, Tim observed some large three toed foot prints of an unknown animal in the mud on the ocean floor. Tim later enquired at the neighbouring Ambungi and Sep Sep Islands about the existence of a living dinosaur. No one at these islands had knowledge of any such creature at that time. However, sightings of an animal resembling a theropod dinosaur commenced around Ambungi Island a couple of years later.1"
https://karlshuker.blogspot.com/2023/08/is-large-non-avian-dinosaur-alive-and.html