 With the discovery and description of "Deinonychus", however, Ostrom had laid out the strongest evidence yet of the close link between birds and dinosaurs.The artistic reconstructions of "Deinonychus" by his student, Robert Bakker, remain iconic of what came to be known as the Dinosaur Renaissance.Bakker's influence during this period on then-fledgling paleoartists, such as Gregory S. Paul, as well as on public consciousness brought about a paradigm shift in how dinosaurs were perceived by artist, scientist and layman alike.