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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NORTH AMERICA IN THE AGE OF DINOSAURS.
Author: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC DINOSAURS OF NORTH AMERICA.
Author: First Big Book of Dinosaurs
Author: Catherine D. HughesPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426308477
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Provides pictures and brief facts about a variety of different kinds of dinosaurs.
North America in the Age of Dinosaurs
Author: National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia
Author: Don LessemPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426329059
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Shares in-depth information about all currently known dinosaur species organized under major periods, providing details on such topics as physical characteristics, diet, and discovery dates.
Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs
Author: Donald R. ProtheroPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231518323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Donald R. Prothero's science books combine leading research with first-person narratives of discovery, injecting warmth and familiarity into a profession that has much to offer nonspecialists. Bringing his trademark style and wit to an increasingly relevant subject of concern, Prothero links the climate changes that have occurred over the past 200 million years to their effects on plants and animals. In particular, he contrasts the extinctions that ended the Cretaceous period, which wiped out the dinosaurs, with those of the later Eocene and Oligocene epochs. Prothero begins with the "greenhouse of the dinosaurs," the global-warming episode that dominated the Age of Dinosaurs and the early Age of Mammals. He describes the remarkable creatures that once populated the earth and draws on his experiences collecting fossils in the Big Badlands of South Dakota to sketch their world. Prothero then discusses the growth of the first Antarctic glaciers, which marked the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and shares his own anecdotes of excavations and controversies among colleagues that have shaped our understanding of the contemporary and prehistoric world. The volume concludes with observations about Nisqually Glacier and other locations that show how global warming is happening much quicker than previously predicted, irrevocably changing the balance of the earth's thermostat. Engaging scientists and general readers alike, Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs connects events across thousands of millennia to make clear the human threat to natural climate change.
National Geographic Kids the Ultimate Dinopedia
Author: Don LessemPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426301650
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
At head of title: National Geographic Kids.
The Complete Dinosaur
Author: Michael K. Brett-SurmanPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253357012
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1161
Book Description
Praise for the first edition "A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" --Science "The amount of information in these] pages is amazing. This book should be on the shelves of dinosaur freaks as well as those who need to know more about the paleobiology of extinct animals. It will be an invaluable library reference." --American Reference Books Annual "An excellent encyclopedia that serves as a nice bridge between popular and scholarly dinosaur literature." --Library Journal (starred review) "Copiously illustrated and scrupulously up-to-date... the book reveals dinos through the fractious fields that make a study of them." --Publishers Weekly "Stimulating armchair company for cold winter evenings.... Best of all, the book treats dinosaurs as intellectual fun." --New Scientist "The book is useful both as a reference and as a browse-and-enjoy compendium." --Natural History What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell us about the process of evolution? And why did typical dinosaurs become extinct? All of these questions, and more, are addressed in the new, expanded, second edition of The Complete Dinosaur. Written by many of the world's leading experts on the "fearfully great" reptiles, the book's 45 chapters cover what we have learned about dinosaurs, from the earliest discoveries of dinosaurs to the most recent controversies. Where scientific contention exists, the editors have let the experts agree to disagree. Copiously illustrated and accessible to all readers from the enthusiastic amateur to the most learned professional paleontologist, The Complete Dinosaur is a feast for serious dinosaur lovers everywhere.
The dinosaurs of North America
Author: Othniel Charles MarshPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334738210
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Excerpt from The Dinosaurs of North America The true place of these reptiles in the animal kingdom has been a matter of much discussion among anatomists, but the best authorities now regard them as constituting a distinct subclass of the Reptilia. Some of the large, earlier forms are apparently related to the Croco dilia, while some of the later, small, specialized ones have various points of resemblance to birds. These diversified characters make it difficult to classify the dinosaurs among themselves, and have led some writers to assert that these reptiles do not form a natural group, but belong to divisions remotely connected and not derived from a common ancestry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dinosaurs
Author: Kathleen Weidner ZoehfeldPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1426307764
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world.