The crurotarsan archosaur - a distant relative of today's crocs - were 40ft long, ten tons and had 45cm serrated teeth.

But the centenary of her death seemed to me the perfect time to re-examine her life, particularly because she is a distant relative.

Sometimes only in retrospect is the significance of the genetic load that a distant relative carried understood.

A distant relative of the elephant, it spends its life in the sea, its slow progress grazing sea grass making it easy prey.

I'm tempted to think that the court was designed by a distant relative of the man who invented the pinball machine.