Dinosaurs are a source of enormous fascination and ever-growing popularity with people of every age.
The really compelling fascination of dinosaurs is not how different but how similar they are to the animals we know. Despite their monstrous reputation many dinosaurs were, in fact, no longer than animals that can be found living today. All of them had to meet the same basic challenges of survival. In their search for food and space, their methods of moving and eating and their social organization, dinosaurs show striking similarities to modern groups, particularly birds and mammals. Over the last fifteen years spectacular new discoveries made in the field and laboratory have demonstrated even more clearly how much dinosaurs and todays' animals have in common.