Weird Dinosaurs : : The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew / / John Pickrell.
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearth...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 26 color illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- World Map
- Foreword
- Introduction: A New Golden Age for Dinosaur Science
- 1. Monster from the Cretaceous Lagoon
- 2. All Hail the Dino-Bat
- 3. Dwarf Dinosaurs and Trailblazing Aristocrats
- 4. Horny Ornaments and Sexy Ceratopsians
- 5. The 'Unusual Terrible Hands'
- 6. Scandalous Behaviour and Enfluffled Vegetarians
- 7. Cretaceous Creatures of the Frozen North
- 8. The Hidden Treasures Down Under
- 9. Record-Breaking Titans
- 10. Southern Killers Set Adrift
- 11. Polar Pioneers and the Frozen Crested Lizard
- Future Potential
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Credits
- Index