What is the closest pet to a dinosaur?

16 Great Pets For Fans of Dinosaurs
  • Caiman.
  • Hornbill.
  • Jackson Chameleon.
  • Sailfin Dragon.
  • Green Basilisk.
  • Snake-Head Turtle.
  • Crocodile Skink.
  • Caiman Lizard.
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What is the closest animal to Dino?

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).
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Can you have a dinosaur as a pet?

At this time, the only dinosaurs any of us can keep as pets are of the bird variety, and those involve quite a bit of responsibility.
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What dinosaur is closest to a dog?

The First Canids: Hesperocyon and the "Bone-Crushing Dogs"

Paleontologists agree that the late Eocene (about 40 to 35 million years ago) Hesperocyon was directly ancestral to all later canids — and thus to the genus Canis, which branched off from a subfamily of canids about six million years ago.
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Who was the nicest dinosaur?

The Stegosaurus is one of the friendliest dinosaurs to have ever been discovered. The Stegosaurus was a lizard-like, herbivorous dinosaur that lived in areas around the United States and Portugal between 155 and 150 million years ago.
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What is the safest dinosaur?

Magyarosaurus. You can't have a dinosaur park without a sauropod, and Magyarosaurus offers a safer, scaled-down option compared to some of its enormous cousins. This 70 million year old dinosaur was what scientists term an “insular dwarf” – a species that shrunk in size during its time cordoned off on an island.
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What is the cutest dinosaur?

Top 10 Cutest Dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era
  • of 10. Gigantoraptor. ...
  • of 10. Leaellynasaura. ...
  • of 10. Limusaurus. ...
  • of 10. Mei. ...
  • of 10. Micropachycephalosaurus. ...
  • of 10. Minmi. ...
  • of 10. Nothronychus. ...
  • of 10. Unaysaurus. Fossils of the Unaysaurus have been found in the Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil.
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What is the scariest dinosaur?

We've seen some scary dinosaurs before, the T-Rex, Utahraptor and Jeholopterus all come to mind, but the newly discovered Heterodontosaur may be the scariest of all. It was a small, fanged dinosaur species that wandered around the toes of other dinosaurs.
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Are dinosaur still alive today?

Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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What animal is closest to a dragon?

Described as 'the closest thing to a real life dragon,' scientists have discovered a new 'fearsome beast' from the time of the dinosaurs! The creature's fossil was found in Australia and is thought to be a new species of pterosaur, a group of winged reptiles that were the largest flying animals that have ever existed.
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What if T. rex was alive today?

rex were alive today, chances are they'd be an endangered species. Their terrifying reputation would be no match for the habitat loss, pollution, and food shortages caused by humans. Because of this, T. rex populations would be a lot smaller, and it's even possible that they would have evolved to be a smaller size.
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Is there dinosaur DNA?

Oct 26, 2021. A team has extracted what could be DNA molecules from a 125-million-year-old fossil dinosaur, according to a study published last month (September 24) in Communications Biology. But other experts have voiced caution or outright skepticism about the findings.
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Do dragons exist?

Dragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom. It would have taken quite a few turns for natural selection to have produced dragons, but if you're willing to stretch a bit, most classic dragon characteristics do exist in other species.
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Are dinosaurs coming back in 2050?

The Adam Smith Institute, a British think tank, has released a new report predicting what life will be like in 2050. According to the report: "Several species of dinosaur will be recreated, making their appearance on Earth for the first time in 66 million years.
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How many dinosaurs are there 2021?

In 2016, the estimated number of dinosaur species that existed in the Mesozoic was 1,543–2,468. In 2021, the number of modern-day birds (avian dinosaurs) was estimated to be at 10,806 species. Some are herbivorous, others carnivorous, including seed-eaters, fish-eaters, insectivores, and omnivores.
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What is the rarest dinosaur?

Complete Deinonychus fossils are among the rarest of all dinosaur skeletons, and Hector is the only complete specimen in private hands, according to Christie's (two others reside in museum collections).
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Who is the weakest dinosaur?

17 Weakest: Gallimimus Were Herbivore Grazers Who Traveled In Herds.
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What is the ugliest dinosaur?

The 10 Ugliest Dinosaurs
  • of 10. Hippodraco. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Isisaurus. Dmitri Bogdanov. ...
  • of 10. Jeyawati. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Masiakasaurus. Lukas Panzarin. ...
  • of 10. Nigersaurus. Australian Museum. ...
  • of 10. Pegomastax. Pegomastax (Tyler Keillor). ...
  • of 10. Suzhousaurus. Wikimedia Commons. ...
  • of 10. Tianyulong. Nobu Tamura.
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What is the weirdest dinosaur name?

The 10 Strangest Dinosaur Names
  • of 10. Drinker. ...
  • of 10. Gasosaurus. ...
  • of 10. Irritator. ...
  • of 10. Yamaceratops. ...
  • of 10. Piatnitzkysaurus. ...
  • of 10. Bambiraptor. Ballista/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0. ...
  • of 10. Micropachycephalosaurus. IJReid/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0. ...
  • of 10. Titanophoneus. Wikimedia Commons.
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What do you call a baby dinosaur?

Dinosaurs are hatched from eggs, therefore new baby dinosaurs are called hatchlings, just like their reptile cousins the turtles and crocodiles. Young dinosaurs, beyond the hatchling stage, are referred to as juveniles.
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What is the fastest dinosaur?

The speediest dinosaurs were the ostrich mimic ornithomimids, such as Dromiceiomimus, which could probably run at speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour.
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What was the first dinosaur?

Nyasasaurus Parringtoni is believed to be the earliest dinosaur to have ever lived on Earth. It predates all other dinosaurs by more than 10 million years.
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What is the deadliest dinosaur in Jurassic world?

The most dangerous dinosaur in the Jurassic Park/World franchise is undoubtedly the Indominus Rex.
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Are fire-breathing dragons real?

After all, a flying, fire-breathing reptile could never exist in real life, right? It's true no fire-breathing dragons have ever been discovered, yet flying lizard-like creatures exist in the fossil record. Some may be found in the wild today.
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