Dinosaurs Ever Evolving

Author : Allen A. Debus
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786499516
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs Ever Evolving written by Allen A. Debus and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the "life through time" narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning to mankind with the advent of the hydrogen bomb. As fears of human extinction escalated during the ecological movement of the 1970s, dinosaurs communicated their metaphorical message of extinction, urging us from our destructive path. Using an eclectic variety of examples, this book outlines the three-fold "evolution" of dinosaurs and other prehistoric monsters in pop culture, from their poorly understood beginnings to the 21st century.

Author : Mark Norell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225015
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Dinosaurs written by Mark Norell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the evolutionary relationship of dinosaurs, answers fifty specific questions about them, profiles forty-one specimens, and describes six expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History.

Author : Darren Naish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781486309849
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Darren Naish and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated and immersive guide to the latest research in these incredible animals. Discover the groundbreaking developments in dinosaur research with this state-of-the-art guide to dinosaur biology. Written by experts from a leading dinosaur research centre, this book begins by tracing the evolution of the dinosaur from 225 million years ago through to the end of the Cretaceous Period, exploring how they lived and what happened during the great extinction event. Research on these fantastic animals is proceeding at a faster pace than ever before. Dinosaurs explores the most recent global discoveries and the major role that new technologies play in revealing previously inaccessible and unknown details about how dinosaurs lived, such as the use of CT-scanning we can now look inside a dinosaur skull and gain new information on brains and sense organs. This engaging book reveals the latest findings about dinosaur anatomy and behaviour, evolution, diversity and lifestyle, and is lavishly illustrated with artwork, photographs and artistic reconstructions that bring these iconic creatures to life.

Author : W. J. T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226532042
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Dinosaur Book written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards.".

Author : David E. Fastovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521811729
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs written by David E. Fastovsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 edition of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs is a unique, comprehensive treatment of this fascinating group of organisms. It is a detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction. The book can easily be used as a teaching textbook for a class, but it is also written as a series of readable, entertaining essays covering important and timely topics appealing to non-specialists and all dinosaur enthusiasts: birds as 'living dinosaurs', the new feathered dinosaurs from China, 'warm-bloodedness'. Along the way, the reader learns about dinosaur functional morphology, physiology, and systematics using cladistic methodology - in short, how professional paleontologists and dinosaur experts go about their work, and why they find it so rewarding. The book is spectacularly illustrated by John Sibbick, a world-famous illustrator of dinosaurs, commissioned exclusively for this book.

Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : W H Freeman & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780716733843
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mistaken Extinction written by Lowell Dingus and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, science has been searching for clues to the disappearance of the dinosaurs without answering a critical question - Are all the dinosaurs really extinct? In The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, crackerjack paleontologists Lowell Dingus, President of Infoquest, a nonprofit education and research foundation, and former Director of the Fossil Hall Renovation at the American Museum of Natural History and Timothy Rowe, J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professor of Geology at the University of Texas, Austin, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Texas Memorial Museum lead us on an adventurous tour through the history of our own planet Earth. And they force us to face a shocking truthThe answer to that critical question is no.

Author : Darren Naish
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345823
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Darren Naish and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaurs are one of the most spectacular groups of animals that have ever existed. Many were fantastic, bizarre creatures that still capture our imagination: the super-predator Tyrannosaurus, the plate-backed Stegosaurus, and the long-necked, long-tailed Diplodocus. Dinosaurs: The Ultimate Guide to How They Lived taps into our enduring interest in dinosaurs, shedding new light on different dinosaur groups. Leading paleontology experts Darren Naish and Paul Barrett trace the evolution, anatomy, biology, ecology, behavior, and lifestyle of a variety of dinosaurs. They also remind us that dinosaurs are far from extinct: they present evidence supporting the evolution of dinosaurs to birds that exist today as approximately ten thousand different species. Throughout their narrative Naish and Barrett reveal state-of-the-art new findings shaping our understanding of dinosaurs. Readers will discover, for example, how the use of CT-scanning enables scientists to look inside dinosaur skulls, thus gaining new insight into their brains and sense organs. Dinosaurs is a must-have for all those wanting to keep up to date about these dynamic, complicated creatures.

Author : David E. Fastovsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139477005
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs written by David E. Fastovsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-12 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs, comes a general introduction to the study of dinosaurs for non-specialists, designed to excite readers about science by using the ever-popular animals - the dinosaurs - to illustrate and discuss geology, natural history and evolution. While it focuses on dinosaurs, it also uses them to convey other aspects of the natural sciences, including fundamental concepts in evolutionary biology, physiology, life history, and systematics. Considerable attention is devoted the nature of science itself: what it is, what it is not, and how science can be used to investigate particular kinds of questions. Dinosaurs is unique because it fills a gap between the glossy, fact-driven dinosaur books for younger readers, and the higher-level academic books, addressing the palaeontology of dinosaurs exactly as professionals in the field do.

Author : John R. Horner
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780525951049
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Build a Dinosaur written by John R. Horner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs - without using prehistoric DNA. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds.

Author : Paul M. Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780792282242
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Geographic Dinosaurs written by Paul M. Barrett and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 300 full-color photos and 90 carefully researched paintings highlight this fascinating, all-new look at dinosaurs. Includes the latest facts, field findings and theories as it reconstructs life in prehistoric times. Young Adult.