Dinosaurs a concise natural history
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...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2009
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Inhaltsangabe:
- To catch a dinosaur
- Dinosaur days
- Who's related to whom--and how do we know?
- Who are the dinosaurs?
- Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers
- Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks
- Ornithopoda : the tuskers, antelopes, and "mighty ducks" of the Mesozoic
- Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic
- Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and claw
- Theropoda II : the origin of birds
- Theropoda III : early birds
- 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