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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 223872, member: 4626&quot;]The word &quot;dinosaur&quot; is a more restrictive designation for animals than most people think.&nbsp; People tend to lump in a lot of extinct reptiles and other animals in with them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whether there is such thing as a living dinosaur depends on how strict your definition is.</p><p><br /></p><p>However the two species of tuataras in New Zealand are the last surviving species of an entire order of reptiles (Sphenodontia) that especially thrived about 200 million years ago, so that&#039;s something.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway for the dinosaur/not a dinosaur explanation can check Wikipedia or any other reliable source on biology.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, they were on New Zealand&#039;s 5 cent coin, until the coin was discontinued last year.&nbsp; They&#039;re also on a 5 dollar silver coin New Zealand minted this year.</p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting animal... a lot of my foreign coin collecting has to do with seeking out interesting animals that are depicted on them, lol... many countries use animals that are endemic to their countries or symbolic of them in some way.&nbsp; Can be fun collecting by theme and seeing how many different animals you can find on coins, or pick a single animal and find how many different types you can find that depict it.&nbsp; I&#039;ve actually sought out depictions of dragons on coins for a while; mostly Asian of course, but did find a few nice European ones too, including a 2000 sterling silver proof 1 pound coin from the UK that depicts a Welsh dragon on the reverse (as well as Pistrucci&#039;s classic &quot;St. George and the Dragon&quot; design on the reverse of a 1951 crown.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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