Richard Collins: Are dinosaurs still around today — masquerading as birds?

Discoveries of a 'fuzzy raptor' and the missing link fossil, archaeopteryx, have given us ancestral links between birds and reptiles and birds and dinosaurs

Could modern doves — symbols of peace and tranquillity — be related, even distantly, to the Tyrannosaurus Rex?

Thomas Henry Huxley, aka Darwin’s bulldog, described birds as ‘glorified reptiles’.

The famous ‘missing link’ fossil had been found in Bavaria: Archaeopteryx had the teeth and long bony tail of a reptile, but it also had feathered wings. Here was the first known bird.