How dinosaur arms turned into bird wings

Published: Sept. 28, 2014, 11 p.m.

b'You can forget Jurassic Park because actually dinosaurs are all around us! And I\'m not joking because the fact is that when you see a chirping bird, you\'re actually looking at a modern dinosaur. Evidence has been growing for some time that our feathered friends are descended from small carnivorous dinosaurs called therapods. For example, the arrangement of bones in a bird\'s fingers, encased in the wing, is very similar to the bones in fossilised therapods. But there are still some biologists who study early development, as a chick grows in an egg, who aren\'t convinced by the dinosaur story.Now... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists'