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Dinosaurs.
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Weird dinosaurs : th...
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Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew / John Pickrell.
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Pickrell, John, author.
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Subjects
Dinosaurs.
Animals, Fossil.
Paleontological excavations.
ISBN:
9780231180986
0231180985
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xv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Foreword / by Philip Currie -- Introduction: A new golden age for dinosaur science -- Monster from the Cretaceous lagoon: The Sahara, Egypt -- All hail the dino-bat: Hebei Province, China -- Dwarf dinosaurs and trailblazing aristocrats: Transylvania, Romania -- Horny ornaments and sexy ceratopsians: Alberta, Canada -- The 'unusual terrible hands': Gobi Desert, Mongolia -- Scandalous behaviour and enfluffled vegetarians: Siberia, Russia -- Cretaceous creatures of the frozen north: Alaska, United States -- The hidden treasures Down Under: Lightning Ridge, Australia -- Record-breaking titans: Patagonia, Argentina -- Southern killers set adrift: Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar -- Polar pioneers and the frozen crested lizard: Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica -- Future potential.
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From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the breakthroughs and technologies that are transforming our understanding of the distant past.
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