What animal is the largest living relative to the dinasours?

The largest arthropod still living today is the Japanese spider crab. This one is small-fry compared to a whopper caught in 1921 which had an arm-span of 3.8 metres. Blue whales are the largest animals ever to have lived. They are bigger than even the largest of the dinosaurs.

1. What animal alive is closest to dinosaurs?
2. What is the largest animal to have ever lived on earth?
3. Which of the following is most likely the closest living relative to dinosaurs?
4. Are chickens related to T rex?
5. Which bird is most closely related to dinosaurs?
6. Are dinosaurs still alive in 2021?
7. What is Spinosaurus closest relative?
8. Is Megalodon bigger than blue whale?
9. Is blue whale bigger than dinosaurs?
10. What's the largest prehistoric animal?
11. What is the oldest animal alive?
12. What animals were alive with cavemen?
13. Can dinosaurs come back?
14. Is an alligator a dinosaur?

What animal alive is closest to dinosaurs?

Dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, a group that includes crocodiles, lizards, turtles, and snakes. Of this large group of animals, other than birds, crocodiles are the closest living things to dinosaurs.

What is the largest animal to have ever lived on earth?

In terms of mass, Earth's largest mammal is the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus). Weighing approximately 136 metric tons (150 tons) and growing to a length of more than 30 meters (98 feet), it is also the largest animal that ever lived.

Which of the following is most likely the closest living relative to dinosaurs?

It is correct to say that birds are the closest living relatives to all EXTINCT dinosaurs. The closest living relatives of ALL dinosaurs are the crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators, gharials).

Are chickens related to T rex?

Chickens are the closest living relative to the T. rex. That's right the mighty fearsome Tyrannosaurs has evolved into a chicken. You thought those tiny arms were ridiculous.

Which bird is most closely related to dinosaurs?

Chickens and turkeys appear to be closer to dinosaurs than other birds are Chickens and turkeys appear to be closer to dinosaurs than other birds are, having experienced fewer genomic changes, according to a paper published in BMC Genomics.

Are dinosaurs still alive in 2021?

In an evolutionary sense, birds are a living group of dinosaurs because they descended from the common ancestor of all dinosaurs. Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive.

What is Spinosaurus closest relative?

This conclusion was further supported in 2018 by Arden and colleagues, who consider Sigilmassasaurus to be a distinct genus, though a very close relative of Spinosaurus, the two unified in the tribe Spinosaurini, coined in the study.

Is Megalodon bigger than blue whale?

No, the blue whale is much bigger. Megalodon was up to 60 feet long, while blue whales are 80 to 100 feet long.

Is blue whale bigger than dinosaurs?

Blue whales are the largest animals that have ever lived—they're even bigger than dinosaurs! Blue whales reach 34 meters (110 feet) long and weigh as much as 172,365 kilograms (190 tons). ... The world's largest dinosaur may have been Patagotitan mayorum, which became extinct about 102 million years ago.

What's the largest prehistoric animal?

The ancient remains of a gigantic marine reptile have been found in southwestern England. Known as an ichthyosaur, the animal lived about 205 million years ago and was up to 85 feet long—almost as big as a blue whale, say the authors of a study describing the fossil published today in PLOS ONE.

What is the oldest animal alive?

Oldest land animal (living)

Jonathan, a Seychelles giant tortoise, is the oldest land animal alive in the world. He is believed to have been born in 1832, making him 189 years old in 2021. Originally from the Seychelles, he is a long-time resident of the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena.

What animals were alive with cavemen?

animals in Chauvet Cave in France Animals that lived in Ice Age Europe around 40,000 years ago at same time modern humans and Neanderthal roamed the continent included wooly mammoths, cave bears, mastodons, saber tooth tigers, cave lions, wooly rhinoceros, steppe bison, giant elk, and the European wild ass.

Can dinosaurs come back?

The answer is YES. In fact they will return to the face of the earth in 2050. We found a pregnant T. rex fossil and had DNA in it this is rare and this helps scientists take a step closer of animal cloning a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs.

Is an alligator a dinosaur?

Crocodylians, which include alligators and crocodiles, are not dinosaurs. They are the closest living relatives of dinosaurs, however (because birds are theropod dinosaurs). Dinosauria is a group that was originally defined by anatomist Richard Owen based on a few described taxa, including Iguanodon and Megalosaurus.