Pickrell Weird Dinosaurs

The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-54339-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Dispatches from a golden age of fossil discovery, showing dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier, and more diverse than imagined.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickrell, John

Weitere Mitwirkende

Currie, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

World Map
Foreword, by Philip Currie
Introduction: A New Golden Age for Dinosaur Science
1. Monster from the Cretaceous Lagoon: The Sahara, Egypt
2. All Hail the Dino-Bat: Hebei Province, China
3. Dwarf Dinosaurs and Trailblazing Aristocrats: Transylvania, Romania
4. Horny Ornaments and Sexy Ceratopsians: Alberta, Canada
5. The 'Unusual Terrible Hands': Gobi Desert, Mongolia
6. Scandalous Behaviour and Enfluffled Vegetarians: Siberia, Russia
7. Cretaceous Creatures of the Frozen North: Alaska, United States
8. The Hidden Treasures Down Under: Lightning Ridge, Australia
9. Record-breaking titans: Patagonia, Argentina
10. Southern Killers Set Adrift: Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar
11. Polar Pioneers and the Frozen Crested Lizard: Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
Future Potential
Glossary
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
Notes
Credits
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Pickrell is an award-winning science writer and editor of Australian Geographic. He is also the author of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Columbia, 2014).