• Question: Does Dinosaurs extinct because i wanna know that some dinosaurs exist in Africa.

    Asked by anon-187768 to Stewart, Miriam, Marton, Laura, Kathryn, David on 8 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: David Ho

      David Ho answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Unfortunately all the evidence seems to suggest that the dinosaurs are extinct. The youngest dinosaur fossils we’ve found are about 65 million years old. There have been loads of dinosaur fossils found in Africa though! There’s a list of them here:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_dinosaurs

    • Photo: Stewart Martin-Haugh

      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Some dinosaurs survived, and we can see them all around us. They’re called birds!

      Creatures older than the dinosaurs have survived. They’re called sharks!

    • Photo: Marton Olbei

      Marton Olbei answered on 8 Nov 2018:

      Stewart is absolutely correct (it’s the best kind of correct)! Birds are, by definition, dinosaurs! 65 million years ago a huge extinction event wiped out all dinosaur groups, except them.

      So, technically, the largest current living dinosaur is the Ostrich 🙂

    • Photo: Miriam Hogg

      Miriam Hogg answered on 9 Nov 2018:

      I think the guys have answered this one very well. The dinosaurs we see in museums are extinct but animals that evolved from them are everywhere!

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