| Description |
224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Life in the distant past: The beginning of life -- Earth's first animals -- How animals evolve -- Evidence from the past -- How fossils form -- Studying fossils -- Continents on the move -- Setbacks and disasters -- Dividing up time -- The age of ancient life: The Cambrian period -- Cambrian animals -- The Burgess shale -- The Ordovician period -- Ordovician animals -- The Silurian period -- Silurian animals -- The Devonian period -- Devonian animals -- The carboniferous period -- Carboniferous animals -- The Permian period -- Permian animals -- End of an era -- The age of reptiles: The Triassic period -- Triassic animals -- Early dinosaurs -- The Jurassic period -- The Cretaceous period -- Dinosaur groups -- Plant-eating giants: Cetiosaurs -- Brachiosaurs and camarasaurs -- Feeding on plants -- Diplodocids -- A question of size -- Fossil hunting in South America -- Titanosaurs -- Ornithopods: Life in a group -- Hypsilophodonts -- Fabrosaurs and Heterodontosaurs -- Iguanodonts -- Colors and camouflage -- Hadrosaurs -- Fossil hunting in Asia -- Sounds -- The meat eaters: Ceratosaurs -- Moving on two legs -- Studying dinosaur tracks -- Bird mimics -- Dromaeosaurs -- Troodonts -- Dinosaur brains -- Eggs and parental care -- The origin of birds -- Early birds -- Giant meat eaters Carnosaurs -- Megalosaurs and segnosaurs -- Allosaurs -- Tyrannosaurs -- Fossil hunting in North America -- Were dinosaurs warm-blooded? -- Armored dinosaurs: Dinosaur defenses -- Ceratopsids -- Stegosaurs -- Fossil hunting in Africa -- Weapons and ornaments -- Nodosaurs and ankylosaurs -- Dome-headed dinosaurs -- Dinosaur droppings -- Reptiles in the air: Wings of skin -- Long-tailed pterosaurs -- Pterodactyls -- How pterosaurs fed -- How pterosaurs bred -- Reptiles in the sea: Adapting to life in water -- Nothosaurs -- Plesiosaurs -- Pliosaurs -- Ichthyosaurs -- Swimming styles -- Fossil hunting in Europe -- Mosasaurs -- Shelled reptiles -- The age of mammals: The end of the dinosaurs -- Early Tertiary -- Late Tertiary -- Quaternary -- Human evolution. |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs -- Encyclopedias, Juvenile.
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Dinosaurs -- Encyclopedias.
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| Added Author |
Sibbick, John.
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| ISBN |
0753452871 |
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