Never too old for Dinosaurs
Dinosaur therapy
Stewart, James, author
2021
Dinomania : why we love, fear and are utterly enchanted by dinosaurs
Sax, Boria.
2018
"At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture and physiology. We have envisioned them in diverse and contradictory ways, reflecting, in part, our changing conceptions of ourselves. Their discovery, around the start of the nineteenth century, was intimately tied to our awareness of geological time; their vast size and power called to mind railroads, battleships and factories, making dinosaurs, paradoxically, emblems of modernity. At the same time, their world was nature at its most pristine, and they simultaneously symbolized childhood innocence and wonder. Dinosaurs provided a sort of code that has enabled people to speak indirectly about the possibility of our own extinction. Not unlike humans today, dinosaurs seem both powerful - almost godly - and helpless in the face of cosmic forces even mightier than themselves. Dinomania tells the story of our romance with the titanic saurians, from early stories that were inspired by their bones to the dinosaur theme parks of today. It concludes that, in our imaginations, dinosaurs are, and always have been, essentially dragons, and their contemporary representation is once again blending with the myth and legend from which it emerged at the start of the modern period."--Publisher's description.
The dinosaur artist : obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy
Williams, Paige, author
2018
The dinosaur hunter
Hickam, Homer H., 1943-
2010
Running a Montana ranch while harboring a secret love for its owner, former homicide detective Mike Wire is approached by a paleontologist who is pursuing a lucrative fossil underneath the ranch, a discovery that attracts ruthless competitors and a brutal murderer.
Dinosaurs -- the grand tour : everything worth knowing about dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
Pim, Keiron.
2019
"A compendium of more than 300 dinosaurs, their key anatomy, geology, and history at a glance."-- Provided by publisher.
Dinosaurs rediscovered : the scientific revolution in paleontology
Benton, M. J. (Michael J.)
2020
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber - complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones, and mummified tail muscles - have caused media sensations. New fossils are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology of course, but it is the advances in technologies and methods that have allowed the revolution in the scope and confidence of the field. Dinosaurs Rediscovered gathers together all the latest palaeontological evidence and takes us behind the scenes on the expeditions and in museum laboratories, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to a highly technical, computational, and indisputably scientific field today. Benton explores what we know of the world of the dinosaurs, how dinosaur remains are found and excavated, and especially how palaeontologists read the details of the life of the dinosaurs from the fossils - their colours, their growth, feeding and locomotion, how they grew from egg to adult, how they sensed the world, and even whether we will ever be able to bring them back to life. Dinosaurs are still very much a part of our world.
Dinosaurs without bones : dinosaur lives revealed by their trace fossils
Martin, Anthony J., 1960- author
2014
Flying dinosaurs : how fearsome reptiles became birds
Pickrell, John, author.
2014
Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic. The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating ritual, or a stepping stone in the evolution of flight? And just how closely related is T. rex to a chicken? Award-winning journalist John Pickrell reveals how dinosaurs developed flight and became the birds in our backyards. He delves into the latest discoveries in China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.
The illustrated dinosaur encyclopedia : a visual who's who of prehistoric life
Cox, C. Barry (Christopher Barry), 1931-
2020
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures is an unmatched reference work distinguished by its erudition and beauty - an illustrated who's who of prehistoric life and a source book of more than 500 million years of evolution on Earth.
The lost world : being an account of the recent amazing adventures of Professor George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Professor Summerlee, and Mr E. D. Malone of the Daily Gazette
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
1998
My beloved Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs
Switek, Brian, author
2013
The rise and fall of the dinosaurs : a new history of a lost world
Brusatte, Stephen, author.
2019
"Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers, themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period, into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today, T. rex, Triceratops, Brontosaurus, and more. He re-creates the dinosaurs' peak during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, when thousands of species thrived, and winged and feathered dinosaurs, the prehistoric ancestors of modern birds, emerged. The story continues to the end of the Cretaceous period, when a giant asteroid or comet struck the planet and nearly every dinosaur species (but not all) died out, in the most extraordinary extinction event in earth's history, one full of lessons for today as we confront a "sixth extinction." Brusatte also recalls compelling stories from his globe-trotting expeditions during one of the most exciting eras in dinosaur research, which he calls "a new golden age of discovery", and offers thrilling accounts of some of the remarkable findings he and his colleagues have made, including primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs; monstrous carnivores even larger than T. rex; and paradigm-shifting feathered raptors.."--Inside dust jacket.
Walking on eggs : the astonishing discovery of thousands of dinosaur eggs in the badlands of Patagonia
Chiappe, Luis M.
2001
