Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated - Softcover

Norell, Mark; Dingus, Lowell; Gaffney, Eugene

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9780520225015: Discovering Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Lessons of Prehistory, Expanded and Updated
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0520225015 ISBN 13: 9780520225015
Publisher: University of California Press, 2000

Synopsis

Expanded and updated

This handsome book addresses the questions of what the fossil record tells us about the evolution and extinction of dinosaurs, what their relationship to the rest of the organic world was, and what we can learn from them about our own place in the history of life on our planet. This edition has been updated throughout, with a new final chapter that details exciting recent discoveries such as the feathered dinosaur fossils in China.

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"We hope that the following pages will introduce you to some of these questions."

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About the Author

Mark A. Norell, Chairman of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Natural History, has been co-leader of the Museum's Gobi Desert yearly expeditions since 1990, in the course of which he has discovered fossil remains of a number of new species of dinosaurs, a dinosaur nesting its eggs, and a unique dinosaur embryo. Eugene S. Gaffney is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum. He is one of the world's leading specialists on fossil turtles. Lowell Dingus is director of the Museum's Fossil Halls renovation. He has served as head geologist on the Gobi Desert expeditions.

Reviews

"Plenty of fine pictures of fossils, tracks, casts, and older graphics fill the well-written, well-designed volume. . . . The authors, three New York paleontologists, offer fresh, compelling arguments that dinosaurs include both Tyrannosaurus rex and modern birds. Birds retained dinosaur forelimb structures, but at last they invented feathers. Our ostriches and canaries are the last dinosaurs."

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Publisher
University of California Press
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0520225015
ISBN 13 
9780520225015
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
239
Rating
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