Dinosaurs /
From their origins and evolution to their much-debated extinction, this volume features the latest scholarship on dinosaurs. Coverage includes basic background information distilled from the fossil record as well as more speculative and theoretical material
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
H.W. Wilson Company,
2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 83, no. 2 |
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Table of Contents:
- I. What were the dinosaurs?: Dinosauria / Kevin Padian and Paul M. Barrett
- Dinosaur dreams: reading the bones of America's psychic mascot / Jack Hitt
- Extreme dinosaurs / John Updike
- Flesh & bone: a new generation of scientists brings dinosaurs back to life / Joel Achenbach
- Dinosaurs under the knife / Erik Stokstad
- II. Bone sharps, fossil hunters, and dinosaur experts: Where dinosaurs roamed / Genevieve Rajewski
- For fossil hunters, Gobi is no desert / John Noble Wilford
- Journey to the past / Kylie Piper
- Bone hunt: a reporter's week in the wilds of Montana / Sid Perkins
- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields
- The dino wars / Donovan Webster
- III. Of a feather? The bird-dinosaur link: Are birds dinosaurs? new evidence muddies the picture / Carolyn Gramling
- Which came first, the feather or the bird? / Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush
- Bird's-eye view / Matthew T. Carrano and Patrick M. O'Connor
- Dinotopia / Jeff Hecht
- Origin of species: how a T. Rex femur sparked a scientific smackdown / Evan Ratliff.
- IV. Mass extinction: what killed the dinosaurs?: Were dinosaurs the victims of a single catastrophe? Yes, and an asteroid did the deed / David Fastovsky
- Were dinosaurs the victims of a single catastrophe? No, it only finished them off / J. David Archibald
- New theory on dinosaurs: multiple meteorites did them in / William J. Broad
- Yucatan asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs, study says / Angela Botzer
- I am become death, destroyer of worlds / The Economist
- A theory set in stone: an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, after all / Katherine Harmon
- V. New discoveries: The hunt for predator X / James O'Donoghue
- Bringing up baby: the evidence mounts that some dinosaurs were attentive parents / David J. Varricchio
- Winged victory / Gareth Dyke
- Blood from stone: how fossils can preserve soft tissue / Mary H. Schweitzer
- Dinosaurs' living descendants / Richard Stone