Author: Dr. Gareth Dyke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119990459
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were related to dinosaurs have been swept away and replaced by new and more difficult questions: How old is the avian lineage? How did birds learn to fly? Which birds survived the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic Era and how did the avian genome evolve? Answers to these questions may help us understand how the different kinds of living birds are related to one another and how they evolved into their current niches. More importantly, they may help us understand what we need to do to help them survive the dramatic impacts of human activity on the planet.
Living Dinosaurs
Author: Dr. Gareth Dyke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119990459
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were related to dinosaurs have been swept away and replaced by new and more difficult questions: How old is the avian lineage? How did birds learn to fly? Which birds survived the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic Era and how did the avian genome evolve? Answers to these questions may help us understand how the different kinds of living birds are related to one another and how they evolved into their current niches. More importantly, they may help us understand what we need to do to help them survive the dramatic impacts of human activity on the planet.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119990459
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Living Dinosaurs offers a snapshot of our current understanding of the origin and evolution of birds. After slumbering for more than a century, avian palaeontology has been awakened by startling new discoveries on almost every continent. Controversies about whether dinosaurs had real feathers or whether birds were related to dinosaurs have been swept away and replaced by new and more difficult questions: How old is the avian lineage? How did birds learn to fly? Which birds survived the great extinction that ended the Mesozoic Era and how did the avian genome evolve? Answers to these questions may help us understand how the different kinds of living birds are related to one another and how they evolved into their current niches. More importantly, they may help us understand what we need to do to help them survive the dramatic impacts of human activity on the planet.
A Living Dinosaur?
Author: Roy P. MacKal
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004085435
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN: 9789004085435
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Living Dinosaurs
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007186738
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Ever wondered why the dinosaurs didn't survive? In this fascinating non-chronological report the success story of crocodiles and lizards (focusing on monitor lizards), and some of the reasons why they have survived since the time of the dinosaurs is explored.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007186738
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Ever wondered why the dinosaurs didn't survive? In this fascinating non-chronological report the success story of crocodiles and lizards (focusing on monitor lizards), and some of the reasons why they have survived since the time of the dinosaurs is explored.
Dinosaurs
Author: Michael J. Benton
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN: 9780831753689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher: Smithmark Publishers
ISBN: 9780831753689
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Living with Dinosaurs
Author: Patricia Lauber
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689826863
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recreates life among the dinosaurs living in North America seventy-five million years ago.
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780689826863
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recreates life among the dinosaurs living in North America seventy-five million years ago.
Dinosaur Habitat
Author: Helen V. Griffith
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780688153243
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
ISBN: 9780688153243
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
After twelve-year-old Nathan's pesky younger brother Ryan claims to have found a dinosaur fossil, they are suddenly transported into a misty world where Ryan's toy dinosaurs are alive.
Dinosaur Bones
Author: Bob Barner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452104085
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1452104085
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.
A Living Dinosaur: On the Hunt in West Africa
Author: Pat Spain
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789046572
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On the Hunt in West Africa finds Bostonian Pat Spain, an inexperienced but enthusiastic traveler and wildlife biologist, on the first shoot of his new National Geographic TV series in Cameroon, the Congo, and the Central African Republic. He was told it would be his “trial by fire” for the world of wildlife TV, and soon finds that to be literally true after their decrepit pick-up truck catches fire while doing 100 MPH on a dirt road. Things only get more uncomfortable for Pat from there as he experiences the wildlife (getting charged by a silverback gorilla and having a killer bee land on his exposed penis), the food (eating rat and face-meltingly hot peppers), and some local traditions (he's almost arrested, accidentally married, and inadvertently invites an evil forest spirit to live in the Pygmy village he's staying in), and somehow manages (in his mind, at least) to solve the mystery of Mokele M'Bembe - a supposed living dinosaur in the riverways connecting these three countries.
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1789046572
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
On the Hunt in West Africa finds Bostonian Pat Spain, an inexperienced but enthusiastic traveler and wildlife biologist, on the first shoot of his new National Geographic TV series in Cameroon, the Congo, and the Central African Republic. He was told it would be his “trial by fire” for the world of wildlife TV, and soon finds that to be literally true after their decrepit pick-up truck catches fire while doing 100 MPH on a dirt road. Things only get more uncomfortable for Pat from there as he experiences the wildlife (getting charged by a silverback gorilla and having a killer bee land on his exposed penis), the food (eating rat and face-meltingly hot peppers), and some local traditions (he's almost arrested, accidentally married, and inadvertently invites an evil forest spirit to live in the Pygmy village he's staying in), and somehow manages (in his mind, at least) to solve the mystery of Mokele M'Bembe - a supposed living dinosaur in the riverways connecting these three countries.
The Last Dinosaur
Author: Jim Murphy
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590448758
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780590448758
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.
I Am Not a Dinosaur!
Author: Will Lach
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
ISBN: 9781454914914
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet some amazing prehistoric creatures that weren't dinosaurs. Simple rhyming text and bright illustrations introduce us to creatures who we have come to know through fossils-- but they are NOT dinosaurs!
Publisher: Sterling Children's Books
ISBN: 9781454914914
Category : Animals, Fossil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet some amazing prehistoric creatures that weren't dinosaurs. Simple rhyming text and bright illustrations introduce us to creatures who we have come to know through fossils-- but they are NOT dinosaurs!