Biological Connection To Birds In Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park

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Throughout the story of Jurassic Park, it becomes apparent that the de-extinct dinosaurs have a biological connection to birds. As described in the book, the movie shows the audience different characteristics of the dinosaurs that can be traced to their aviating descendants. A few examples from the Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton are: “She noticed that the lizard left three-toed tracks that looked exactly like bird tracks,” from page 13; “He walked like a bird, too. He jerked his head like this, up and down,” page 17; “but he ducks his whole head under the water. Like a bird,” page 102. Timmy Murphy, an eleven-year-old, even explained how a velociraptor looked like “a gigantic, silent bird of prey, (Crichton 230)” as he was being stalked