Dinosaur DNA clues

Dinosaur DNA clues unpicked by researchers at University of Kent

"The fossil evidence and now our evidence reinforces the idea that rather than birds and dinosaurs being distant relatives, they are one in the same. The birds around us today are dinosaurs."

Very interesting. So how did they reach that conclusion?

Recently, Prof Darren Griffin's team used mathematical techniques to identify the possible genetic characteristics of the very first dinosaurs. They did this by working backwards from their closest modern-day relatives - birds and turtles.

Neat. They start by assuming that birds and dinosaurs are related, and reach the astounding conclusion that birds and dinosaurs are related.