The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World: The Definitive Dinosaur Encyclopedia with Stunning Illustrations, Embark on a Prehistoric Quest!

by Steve Brusatte

THE REALIZATION THAT birds are dinosaurs is probably the single most important fact ever discovered by dinosaur paleontologists. Although we’ve learned much about dinosaurs over the past few decades, this is not a radical new idea pushed by my generation of scientists. Quite the opposite: it’s a theory that goes back a long way, to the era of Charles Darwin.

Birds are dinosaurs