Dinosaurs : : how They Lived and Evolved

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Call Number: 567.9 Na, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Animals / Dinosaurs
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch, Traverwood Branch

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History, origins, and their world -- The dinosaur family tree -- Anatomy -- Biology, ecology, and behaviour -- The origin of birds -- The Great Extinction and beyond.
"Discover the most successful--and bizarre--animals ever to inhabit Earth: the dinosaurs. Filled with groundbreaking discoveries in dinosaur research from around the globe, Dinosaurs is a state-of-the-art guide to dinosaur biology, anatomy, behavior, evolution, and diversity, richly illustrated with artistic reconstructions that bring these iconic creatures to life,"--page [4] of cover.

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Comprehensive, up-to-date, and open-ended submitted by saffholter1 on December 6, 2023, 8:57am This is a fantastic comprehensive overview of dinosaur science accompanied by many very useful illustrations and diagrams. I found the explanations and supporting diagrams of cladistics especially helpful-- they are presented throughout the entire book with notes about how they differ from previous classification systems. Unlike many texts that can read as very outdated by the claims they make about certain theories involving things like dinosaur biology and behavior, this text remains transparently open-ended by presenting competing theories and stating when ideas are not wholly agreed upon by the broader scientific community. I really appreciated that, especially because the science seems to be changing so rapidly sometimes. Just a great read and should be considered a perennial resource for dinosaur facts!