Tracking Dinosaurs: A New Look at an Ancient World - Hardcover

Lockley, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521394635 ISBN 13: 9780521394635

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Tracking Dinosaurs is the first non-technical, popular science book on dinosaur footprints and what they reveal about dinosaurs and their habitats. Billions of dinosaur tracks have been found in recent years and through careful examination of these prehistoric clues, dinosaur trackers have discovered much about how and where dinosaurs lived. This book deals with this landslide of new information that has accumulated in recent decades, demonstrating that fossil footprints are neither rare nor insignificant as previously supposed. A complete guide to dinosaur tracking, the book begins with a discussion of the meaning of tracks, how tracks provide information about dinosaur locomotion, behaviour, ecology and environmental impact. The accessible writing style and numerous illustrations, including eight pages of colour photographs, make this book appropriate for all people with a general interest in science and natural history.

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Book Description

Tracking Dinosaurs is the first non-technical, popular science book on dinosaur footprints and what they reveal about dinosaurs and their habitats. This book deals with this landslide of new information that has accumulated in recent decades, demonstrating that fossil footprints are neither rare nor insignificant as previously supposed.

From the Back Cover

A complete guide to dinosaur tracking, the book begins with a discussion of the meaning of tracks, how tracks provide information about dinosaur locomotion, behavior, ecology and environmental impact. A detailed description of dinosaur track locations is included. Popular myths and misconceptions are reviewed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0521394635
• ISBN 13: 9780521394635
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 252