Is it possible that water dinosaurs are still alive?

Thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago (along with the mass extinction of dinosaurs), the coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was rediscovered in 1938. The coelacanth is predicted to belong to a lineage that has been around for 360 million years and it is a fish unlike many others.

What water dinosaurs are still alive today?

Prehistoric Deep Sea Creatures That Are Still Alive Today

• Jellyfish. Starting with the most common-sighted creature, jellyfish are another creature that has been around for millions of years – another 500 million, to be exact.
• Horseshoe Crab.
• Nautilus.
• Coelacanth.
• Lamprey.
• Pygmy Right Whale.

Are sea dinosaurs extinct?

Ichthyosaur. Around 252 million years ago, there was a mass extinction that led to the disappearance of a large number of animals, plants and other species. In fact, about 90\% of ocean species and 70\% of land species vanished as a result.

Is the frilled shark still alive?

Does the frilled shark still exist? Yes. The frilled shark is one of the only surviving species in its particular shark family, but it can still be found throughout the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What killed the water dinosaurs?

The impact of the Chicxulub asteroid — so named for the crater it carved out around the Gulf of Mexico — sent columns of rock into Earth’s atmosphere, incinerated the planet’s forests and drove tsunamis far across the oceans.

When did the Megalodon go extinct?

2.6 million years ago
Extinction of a mega shark We know that megalodon had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago), when the planet entered a phase of global cooling. Precisely when the last megalodon died is not known, but new evidence suggests that it was at least 3.6 million years ago.

Was a megalodon found?

Fossil remains of the megalodon have been found off the coast of every continent except Antarctica. Between 2007 and 2009, researchers collected a number of juvenile megalodon teeth in the waters off the coast of Panama.

What shark goes the deepest?

Another species that has one of the deepest diving records are frilled sharks. This ancient shark species normally lives at 3,300 feet of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but once caught at 5,150 feet. Scientists believe that some of them even hunt deeper but there is no evidence yet.

Why is it dark under the ocean?

The ocean is very, very deep; light can only penetrate so far below the surface of the ocean. As the light energy travels through the water, the molecules in the water scatter and absorb it. In the aphotic zone; all that’s left of sunlight is a dim, dark, blue-green light, too weak to allow photosynthesis to occur.

What is the only water dinosaur to exist?

Spinosaurus is the only water dinosaur to have ever existed. It was discovered only a few years after the Tyrannosaurus. Its fossils had been destroyed during World War II when an Allied bombing raid took occurred in Munich.

Could dinosaurs still exist today?

If dinosaurs had existed up until much more recently — say, the Nixon administration or even Shakespeare’s time — the likelihood of a few remaining, lonely huge dinosaurs might be plausible. But 65 million years is a long time for giant dinosaurs to live and die without leaving any recent fossils.

Do dinosaurs still lurk in the wild?

There are no photographs or films of the creature, no bones or teeth, no evidence beyond stories and anecdote. Of course the fatal flaw in the idea that giant dinosaurs still lurk in remote jungles or cold, deep lakes is that all the evidence suggests they died out about 65 million years ago.

Are there any non-avian dinosaurs that lived in the sea?

As of now there are no known non-avian dinosaurs that lived in the sea. The animals that lived in the sea that are often confused with dinosaurs are reptiles of a different sort. Mosasaurs are marine lizards while Icthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs and yet another branch of reptiles only very distantly related…