Living dinosaur

Living dinosaur may refer to:

• Birds, the only known living dinosaurs
• Living fossils, extant taxa that closely resemble organisms otherwise known only from the fossil record
• Paleocene dinosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs alleged to have survived into the beginning of the Paleocene epoch
• Living dinosaurs, in beliefs adherent to the pseudosciences of cryptozoology and young Earth creationism, such as the Mokele-mbembe.
• Partridge Creek monster, the subject of a story by French writer Georges Dupuy

• Lazarus taxon, a taxon that disappears from the fossil record only to appear again later