There was a flare up of dinosaur enthusiasm when Jurassic Park came out. One of the people that got a lot of exposure was a paleontologist called Robert Bakker who had a book out at the time that was notorious for saying T-Rex was the "roadrunner from hell". I took my nephew to see him when he lectured at the natural history museum here. He pointed out that dinos had a lot of bird like qualities. He drew a lot of pictures which he gave to the kids. It was a fun lecture.