Types of Dinosaurs: The Major Groups, Clades, and Families Explained

Dinosaur evolution tree showing major clades including theropods, sauropods, ceratopsians, ankylosaurs, and birds

There are more types of dinosaurs alive today than there were during the Cretaceous Period. That statement sounds wrong — but it is scientifically accurate. Modern birds are dinosaurs in the full evolutionary sense, and with roughly 10,000 living bird species compared to an estimated 700–900 known non-avian dinosaur species in the fossil record, the … Read more