Dinosaurs

Name: Dinosaurs
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ISBN: 9780192804198

ISBN-10: 0192804197

ISBN-13: 9780192804198

Edition: 2005

Authors: David Norman

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The popularity of dinosaurs seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Par and documentaries (Walking with Dinosaurs). But how much do these popular programmes really tell us about the recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur?This is the first book explain the latest findings in dinosaur research and the exciting scientific discoveries that have built up a picture of how dinosaurs looked, what they ate, and how they moved and interacted with each other. Taking a new approach to the subject, David Norman combines many areas of science, such as anatomy, genetics, forensics and engineering design, to piece together the evidence of how…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 4.50" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

David Norman is the Director of the Sedgwick Museum of Geology at Cambridge University & the author of several books on dinosaurs including "Dinosaur!", "Prehistoric Life", & "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs".



List of illustrations


Introduction



Dinosaurs in perspective



Dinosaur renaissance



New light on Iguanodon



Unravelling the genealogy of dinosaurs



Dinosaurs and warm blood



What if ...birds are dinosaurs?



Dinosaur research: observation and deduction



The future of research on the past


Further reading


Index