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Animals, Fossil.
Paleontology.
Paleontological excavations.
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Pickrell, John.
Dinosaurs.
Animals, Fossil.
Paleontology.
Paleontological excavations.
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Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew /
John
Pickrell
.
by
Pickrell
,
John
.
Columbia University Press, c2016.
Call #:
567.9 P597wd
Subjects
Dinosaurs.
Animals, Fossil.
Paleontology.
Paleontological excavations.
ISBN:
9780231180986
0231180985
Description:
xv, 242 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
First published in Australia by NewSouth, 2016.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / by Philip Currie -- Introduction : a new golden age for dinosaur science -- Monster from the Cretaceous lagoon : the Sahara, Egypt -- All hail the dino-bat : Hebei Province, China -- Dwarf dinosaurs and trailblazing aristocrats : Transylvania, Romania -- Horny ornaments and sexy ceratopsians : Alberta, Canada -- The 'unusual terrible hands' : Gobi Desert, Mongolia -- Scandalous behaviour and enfluffled vegetarians : Siberia, Russia -- Cretaceous creatures of the frozen north : Alaska, United States -- The hidden treasures Down Under : Lightning Ridge, Australia -- Record-breaking titans : Patagonia, Argentina -- Southern killers set adrift : Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar -- Polar pioneers and the frozen crested lizard : Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica -- Future potential.
Summary:
From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast
John
Pickrell
embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past.
Pickrell
opens a vivid portal to a brand-new age of fossil discovery, in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we know and how we think about prehistory's most iconic and fascinating creatures.
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