At a preview of the new American Museum of Natural History exhibition “Dinosaurs Among Us,” scientists gave a tip of the hat to Thomas Henry Huxley, the man who proposed in the 1860s that dinosaurs never really vanished from Earth. Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives all around us. They are birds, all 18,000 species of them.
Image: Archaeopteryx was described in the 1860s by Thomas Henry Huxley from its fossil specimen as having feathers but many reptilian features. Credit Zhao Chuang/Peking Natural Science Organization, via American Museum of Natural History
