Dino-birds - Angela Milner

What do Tyrannosaurus rex and the common European Robin have in common? Much more than you might realise, for the robin in your garden is a modern dinosaur, albeit a small one. The origins of the birds has until now been one of the great enigmas of evolution. Fossils rarely show soft tissues such as hair and feathers, the crucial proof needed to find the missing links in the evolutionary trail from reptile to bird. Until the discovery in 2000 of the first feathered dinosaur from the fine-grained slate of the Lianoning Province of China, there was no hard evidence to prove the theory that birds came from a family of feathered dinosaurs. Now it is believed that feathers were relatively common among the meat-eating dinosaurs.

Dino-birds explores the ever-growing evidence supporting the evolution of dinosaurs to birds. Dinosaur expert Angela Milner looks at the astounding fossil 'feathery' dinosaurs from China and the bird fossils from other sites around the world, to take us on a journey from those dinosaurs to the birds we see today. Looking at the people involved and the debates that ensued, this is an exciting little book packed with information on every page and illustrated throughout.