Myke Mollards signature illustrations and engaging text, delivered with a cinematic punch, bring kids up close and personal with dozens of the largest and most fascinating of Australias dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. The book includes over 400 animals that lived in Australia at various times from 250 million years ago.
Journey back to the age of dinosaurs and uncover the secrets of some of the prehistoric world's most remarkable beasts. From the Tyrannosaurus rex and Diplodocus to the Triceratops and Stegosaurus, get up close and discover how these fascinating creatures lived, hunted, evolved and ultimately died out. In Discovering Dinosaurs we've ......
From Allosaurus to Zuniceratops, travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs with The World's Most Amazing Dinosaurs and discover these `terrible lizards' for yourself. Did Velociraptors hunt in packs? Why did Herbivores grow so massive? Find out how the dinosaurs survived and thrived and about the mass extinction event that ended it all.
This beautifully illustrated exploration of the diversity, anatomy, and evolution of dinosaur feeding adaptations is the first and only in-depth look at this crucial aspect of paleoecology. In An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology, experts Ali Nabavizadeh and David B. Weishampel bring dinosaurs to life on the page by exploring and ......
Reveals the fascinating behaviors and social lives of dinosaurs. What do we truly know about the intelligence of dinosaurs? In What Did Dinosaurs Think About? paleontologist Jean Le Loeuff takes us beyond these captivating animals' cinematic portrayals in Jurassic Park to illustrate how these creatures truly lived, hunted, socialized, and ......
How can paleontologists know what a living dinosaur was like more than a hundred million years ago, particularly when only partial skeletons remain? Focusing on one large carnivorous dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus ("high-spined lizard"), paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter explains the process, pairing scholarly findings with more than 75 color ......
In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles. More than a century later, Russell's great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor's forgotten ......
The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ......
Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia ......
