Hunting dinosaurs
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.
| Main Author: | Psihoyos, Louie. |
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| Other Authors: | Knoebber, John. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Random House,
[1994]
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| Physical Description: |
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Subjects: |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes index. 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. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0679431241 9780679431244 |