-Chickens are the closest living animals to the dinosaurs, specifically the T-Rex
-In fact it is suspected that almost all birds are descended from Dinosaurs that survived the final extinction event.
-The Stegosaurus lived during the Late Jurassic Period, about 150 million years ago. The Tyrannosaurus rex lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 72 million years ago. Stegosaurus was extinct for 66 million years before Tyrannosaurus walked on Earth.
-The oldest dinosaur we know of is the Eoraptor, which lived in what is now known as Argentina approximately 231 to 228 million years ago
-Many dinosaurs were not the scaly things we see in books and "pictures" they had feathers