Ancestor Quote by David M. Raup

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds.…

— Neil Gaiman

The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs.

— Robert T. Bakker

Dinosaurs grew feathers for heat regulation, but the ones that started flying started becoming birds.

— Howard Rheingold

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring…

— Anonymous

Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs…

— Jack Horner

“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like strands of…

— Steve Brusatte

“Distinguishing the first true birds from their feathered dinosaur relations has become increasingly difficult. If we define birds as warm-blooded, feathered, bipedal animals that…

— Brian Switek

Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.

— Steve Miller

Kiss me if I'm wrong but dinosaurs still exist right ?

— RMKATTA

Why dinosaurs are extinct.

— Alla