"Dinosaurs have always lived with man. They were on the ark with Noah. Some of them are probably still alive today in the remote jungles."
Kent Hovind, Creation Seminar Series, Part 3 January 2003 Watch clip ↗

What the evidence says

Non-avian dinosaurs went extinct approximately 66 million years ago, confirmed by radiometric dating, the iridium layer at the K-Pg boundary, and the complete absence of dinosaur fossils above this boundary. Modern humans appeared roughly 300,000 years ago. No credible evidence supports dinosaur-human coexistence.

This claim requires ignoring virtually the entire geological and paleontological record:

The K-Pg extinction event (~66 Mya): The Chicxulub asteroid impact is supported by a global iridium anomaly layer, shocked quartz, tsunami deposits, and the 180-km impact crater in the Yucatán Peninsula. Above this layer, no non-avian dinosaur fossils have ever been found — anywhere on Earth.

The gap between dinosaurs and humans: Non-avian dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years before the earliest Homo sapiens fossils (~300,000 years ago). The gap is approximately 65.7 million years.

“Living dinosaurs” claims: Hovind references legends like Mokele-mbembe (a supposed sauropod in the Congo) as evidence. No expedition has produced physical evidence — no bones, no tissue, no verified photographs. Cryptozoological claims do not constitute scientific evidence.

The “physical evidence” Hovind cites has been debunked: The Ica Stones of Peru — carved stones depicting humans with dinosaurs — were exposed as forgeries. The farmer who supplied them, Basilio Uschuya, admitted in a 1977 BBC documentary to carving them himself using a dentist’s drill, baking them in cow dung to fake a patina, and drawing the designs from comic books and textbooks.

The Paluxy River “human tracks” in Texas — long cited alongside dinosaur prints as proof of coexistence — were investigated thoroughly by researcher Glen Kuban in the 1980s. The supposed human prints were elongated metatarsal dinosaur tracks, erosion features, or carvings. Even Answers in Genesis, a leading creationist organization, now advises against using the Paluxy tracks as evidence.

Birds are dinosaurs: Modern birds are the living descendants of theropod dinosaurs. In a sense, dinosaurs do live among us — but as sparrows and eagles, not as the creatures Hovind imagines on Noah’s ark.