| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
63 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Eyewitness books |
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Eyewitness books.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Text and photographs explore the world of the dinosaurs, focusing on such aspects as their teeth, feet, eggs, and fossils. From cover to cover, this openly invites the reader to discover the delights of dinosaurs. The visual appeal is impressive. The text is informative. Fossilization, skeleton reconstruction, and a superb time scale round out a stunning and compelling book. Complete, authoritative, exact, and imaginative, it is sure to survive when other dinosaur books become extinct. |
| Contents |
What were the dinosaurs? -- Early discoveries -- Dinosaur landscape -- Little and large -- Long-necked beast -- Tale of defense -- Dinosaur diets -- Meat eaters -- Plant eaters -- Peculiar heads -- Three-horned face -- Tough skin -- Plated dinosaurs -- Fast movers -- Two feet or four? -- Ancient footprints -- Claws and their uses -- Eggs and nests -- Birth and growth -- Death of the dinosaurs -- Dinosaur or bird? -- How to find a dinosaur -- How to rebuild a dinosaur -- Timescale -- End of an era -- Myths and legends -- Index. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.6 1.0 17218. |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs -- Juvenile literature.
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Dinosaurs.
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Fossils.
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Paleontology.
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| Added Author |
Milner, Angela C.
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Keates, Colin, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
0394822536 |
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0394922530 (library binding) |
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