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. |
|---|---|
| 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: |
Table of 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.