Dinosaurs : a concise natural history / David E. Fastovsky, David B. Weishampel ; with illustrations by John Sibbick.
From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, comes a general introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers about science by using the ever-popular animals the dinosaurs to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history and evolution. Wh...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. |
| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Remembrance of things past
- To catch a dinosaur
- Dinosaur days
- Who's related to whom : and how do we know?
- Who are the dinosaurs?
- Dinosaurs : in the beginning
- Saurischia : meat, might and magnitude
- Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and claw
- Theropoda II : meet the theropods
- Theropoda III : the origin and early evolution of birds
- Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic
- Ornithischia : armored, horned, and duck-billed dinosaur
- Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers
- Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks
- Euornithopoda : magnificent mesozoic herbivores
- Endothermy, endemism, and extinction
- Dinosaur thermoregulation : some like it hot
- The flowering of the mesozoic
- A history of paleontology through ideas
- The cretaceous, tertiary extinction : the frill is gone
- Glossary.