Do dinosaurs exist today?

There is no conclusive answer to this topic since scientists are still unsure regarding dinosaur demise. Some people think that tiny populations of dinosaurs may still persist in remote corners of the earth, however there is no actual evidence to back this up. If dinosaurs still exist, they would be extremely difficult to detect and research since they would live in extremely distant places.

It is widely assumed that current birds are descended from dinosaurs. The fossil records of Archaeopteryx and Xiaotingia, two taxa of theropod dinosaurs with anatomical characteristics comparable to birds, provided the first evidence for this notion.