"I AM DINOSAUR!" - Thinks Local Golden Eagle

Although this item of interest may not match perfectly with this blogs intention of highlighting how dinosaurs are imagined in the modern day - it really is too cool to take a pass on.

Even the most lay-dinophiles support the theory that some dinosaurs evolved to become modern day birds, although this theory didn't gain popularity until the last couple of decades. Its hard for some people to imagine that delicate little multi-colored, weightless birds could be related to dinosaurs - who still exist in most of our imaginations as immense and formidable creatures.

 Of course, folks who only think of 10 ton beasts when they think of dinosaurs aren't remembering all our tiny feathered friends like Epidendrosaurus and Xiaotingia, but thinking about birds as being delicate and minute is wrong, too.

A camera in Russia recently caught this image of a massive eagle taking attacking a deer in the most dinosaurian of take downs.

If this doesnt cause you to start thinking about birds in a new way, I don't know what will. 

 http://strangebehaviors.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/eagle-schools-deer-on-dinosaur-ancestry/