Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Do dinosaurs still exist in some parts of the world today? – Ruben M., age 5 Did all dinosaurs become extinct, killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction event – with their descendants living even today? It is exciting to imagine that gigantic dinosaurs are still rumbling and lumbering around in some remote part of the world. But no…
Author: Hans Sues, Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Institution
