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Author | : David B. Weishampel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1996-05-21 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
The great dinosaur bonebeds of the American and Canadian West are world famous for spectacular fossil yields. But the eastern U.S. and maritime Canada have been equally inportant to the study of these extraordinary creatures. Dinosaurs of the East Coast combines science, history, and modern reporting to offer a new look at an always fascinating subject. 29 line, 110 halftone illustrations.
Author | : Dougal Dixon |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2019-05-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1515856135 |
When dinosaurs first appeared, the lands of North America and Europe were much different. The continents and oceans were changing. See how dinosaurs lived similarly to today's animals in this evolving region.
Author | : William B. Gallagher |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813523491 |
He points out places in New Jersey and nearby where specimens characteristic of each era can be found. He shows how fossil evidence discovered in the state is helping paleontologists reconstruct the ecological interactions and behavior of dinosaurs, and discusses such continuing scientific controversies as the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Author | : David E. Fastovsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2005-02-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780521811729 |
This 2005 edition of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs is a unique, comprehensive treatment of this fascinating group of organisms. It is a detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction. The book can easily be used as a teaching textbook for a class, but it is also written as a series of readable, entertaining essays covering important and timely topics appealing to non-specialists and all dinosaur enthusiasts: birds as 'living dinosaurs', the new feathered dinosaurs from China, 'warm-bloodedness'. Along the way, the reader learns about dinosaur functional morphology, physiology, and systematics using cladistic methodology - in short, how professional paleontologists and dinosaur experts go about their work, and why they find it so rewarding. The book is spectacularly illustrated by John Sibbick, a world-famous illustrator of dinosaurs, commissioned exclusively for this book.
Author | : Dougal Dixon |
Publisher | : Picture Window Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-07 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781404848986 |
Dinosaur Find - Written by dinosaur expert Dougal Dixon, this series presents a diverse selection of dinosaurs, based on their behavior, continent, ecosystem, and region. Life-like illustrations and size comparisons provide readers with an up-close look at these extinct creatures.
Author | : Kathryn Lasky |
Publisher | : StarWalk Kids Media |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1623342082 |
In the Badlands of Montana, many stories are waiting to be told – about Triceratops and Ankylosaurus and ancient crocodiles. There, scientists search for the bones of animals that lived millions of years ago. In Dinosaur Dig, Kathryn Lasky and Christopher G. Knight, the award-winning writer-and-photographer team, describe the dirty, sweaty, and exciting job they and five other families perform as they search for fossils in the Badlands. Dinosaur Dig is a feast of keen observation, magnificent photography, and information about Earth’s ancient past. Like any good story, it captures expectations and disappointments, close calls, and finally success as the diggers uncover and race to preserve the bones of a creature that died 67 million years ago.
Author | : Anthony J. Martin |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2013-01-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0253006090 |
Have you ever wondered what left behind those prints and tracks on the seashore, or what made those marks or dug those holes in the dunes? Life Traces of the Georgia Coast is an up-close look at these traces of life and the animals and plants that made them. It tells about how the tracemakers lived and how they interacted with their environments. This is a book about ichnology (the study of such traces) and a wonderful way to learn about the behavior of organisms, living and long extinct. Life Traces presents an overview of the traces left by modern animals and plants in this biologically rich region; shows how life traces relate to the environments, natural history, and behaviors of their tracemakers; and applies that knowledge toward a better understanding of the fossilized traces that ancient life left in the geologic record. Augmented by illustrations of traces made by both ancient and modern organisms, the book shows how ancient trace fossils directly relate to modern traces and tracemakers, among them, insects, grasses, crabs, shorebirds, alligators, and sea turtles. The result is an aesthetically appealing and scientifically grounded book that will serve as source both for scientists and for anyone interested in the natural history of the Georgia coast.
Author | : David B. Weishampel |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 2007-12-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0520254082 |
This second edition includes coverage of dinosaur systematics, reproduction, life history strategies, biogeography, taphonomy, paleoecology, thermoregulation & extinction.
Author | : Mark Hallett |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1421420287 |
Anyone with a passion for dinosaurs or prehistoric life will cherish this once-in-a-generation masterpiece.The book includes the following features: Over 200 full-color illustrations More than 100 color photographs from museums, field sites, and collections around the world Thoughtfully placed drawings and charts Clearly written text reviewed by major sauropod researchers Descriptions of the latest sauropod concepts and discoveries A field guide to major groups of sauropods Detailed skeletal reconstructions and anatomical restorations A comprehensive glossary
Author | : Paige Williams |
Publisher | : Hachette Books |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2018-09-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0316382507 |
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.