| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
In the beginning ... there was no rent -- Dinosaur prehistory -- The breakup of the earth -- The early bone hunters -- The Triassic -- In evolution, sometimes you're a fly, sometimes you're the windshield -- Dinosaurs become winners by default -- The Jurassic -- Mother Nature's 70-million-year midlife crisis -- The real big-game hunters: in search of Jurassic wildlife -- Warm-blooded theories -- Lost epochs found in Asia -- The Dinosaur trackers -- In the footsteps of giants -- The Cretaceous -- From flowers to T. Rex: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times -- The strange mutations of the early cretaceous -- Her majesty's terrible lizards find a home -- Mongolia: journey to the flaming cliffs in a Molotov cocktail -- Where the duckbills roam -- The joy of Rex -- Extinction: the final chapter -- Picking up the pieces -- The dinosaur road warrior. |
| Summary |
Go on a trek with dinosaur hunters from bone quarries to laboratories to exhibit halls. Famous figures in paleontology are introduced, such as Bob Bakker. |
| Subject |
Paleontology.
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| Added Author |
Knoebber, John.
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| ISBN |
0679431241 |
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