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Kingfisher Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia

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ISBN-10: 0753452871

ISBN-13: 9780753452875

Edition: 2001 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: David Burnie

List price: $24.95
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Come jaw-to-jaw with an amazing array of awe-inspiring prehistoric reptiles and other incredible creatures in this dramatic trek back in time to the dawn of life on our planet and the age of the dinosaurs. Spectacular, full-color illustrations, photographs, and realistic dinosaur reconstructions based on the latest scientific discoveries bring each creature to life. The text combines hard facts about dinosaurs with interesting and intriguing details about their lifestyle and behavior. Species spreads detail the members of specific dinosaur families, giving information about their habitats and behavior, sizes, and the locations of fossil finds, while special subject spreads focus on various…    
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Publication date: 9/15/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 8.97" wide x 10.74" long x 0.96" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Foreword
Life in the distant past
The beginning of life
Earth's first animals
How animals evolve
Evidence from the past
How fossils form
Studying fossils
Continents on the move
Setbacks and disasters
Dividing up time
The Age of Ancient Life
The Cambrian Period
Cambrian animals
The Burgess Shale
The Ordovician Period
Ordovician animals
The Silurian Period
Silurian animals
The Devonian Period
Devonian animals
The Carboniferous Period
Carboniferous animals
The Permian Period
Permian animals
End of an era
The Age of Reptiles
The Triassic Period
Triassic animals
Early dinosaurs
The Jurassic Period
The Cretaceous Period
Dinosaur groups
Plant-eating giants
Cetiosaurs
Brachiosaurs and Camarasaurs
Feeding on plants
Diplodocids
A question of size
Fossil hunting in South America
Titanosaurs
Ornithopods
Life in a group
Hypsilophodonts
Fabrosaurs and Heterodontosaurs
Iguanodonts
Colors and camouflage
Hadrosaurs
Fossil hunting in Asia
Sounds
The Meat eaters
Ceratosaurs
Moving on two legs
Studying dinosaur tracks
Bird mimics
Dromaeosaurs
Troodonts
Dinosaur brains
Eggs and parental care
The origin of birds
Early birds
Giant Meat eaters
Carnosaurs
Megalosaurs and Segnosaurs
Allosaurs
Tyrannosaurs
Fossil hunting in North America
Were dinosaurs warm-blooded?
Armored dinosaurs
Dinosaur defenses
Ceratopsids
Stegosaurs
Fossil hunting in Africa
Weapons and ornaments
Nodosaurs and Ankylosaurs
Dome-headed dinosaurs
Dinosaur droppings
Reptiles in the Air
Wings of skin
Long-tailed pterosaurs
Pterodactyls
How pterosaurs fed
How pterosaurs bred
Reptiles in the Sea
Adapting to life in water
Nothosaurs
Plesiosaurs
Pliosaurs
Ichthyosaurs
Swimming styles
Fossil hunting in Europe
Mosasaurs
Shelled reptiles
The Age of Mammals
The end of the dinosaurs
Early Tertiary
Late Tertiary
Quaternary
Human evolution
Glossary
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