Dinopedia (eBook)

A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore

Darren Naish (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22860-0 (ISBN)

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An illuminating and entertaining collection of dinosaur facts, from A to ZDinopedia is an illustrated, pocket-friendly encyclopedia of all things dinosaurian. Featuring dozens of entries on topics ranging from hadrosaur nesting colonies to modern fossil hunters and paleontologists such as Halszka Osmolska and Paul Sereno, this amazing AZ compendium is brimming with facts about these thrilling, complex, and sophisticated animals.Almost everything we know about dinosaurs has changed in recent decades. A scientific revolution, kick-started in the late 1960s by astounding new discoveries and a succession of new ideas, has shown that these magnificent creatures were marvels of evolution that surpassed modern reptiles and mammals in size, athletic abilities, and more. Darren Naish sheds invaluable light on our current, fast-changing understanding of dinosaur diversity and evolutionary history, and discusses the cultural impacts of dinosaurs through books, magazines, and movies. Naish also shows how our emerging view of these animals is very much a human story about ambition and competing egos, revealing that controversy and disagreement are commonplace in the vigorous field of dinosaur studies.With a wealth of original illustrations by the author, Dinopedia is an informative and entertaining collection of lore for the dinosaur lover in all of us.Features a cloth cover with an elaborate foil-stamped design

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Pedia Books
• Reihe/Serie: Pedia Books
• Illustrationen: Darren Naish
• Zusatzinfo: 50 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Allosauroidea • Allosaurus • Alvarezsaur • anatomy • Ankylosauria • Archaeopteryx • Archosaur • Arthropod • Biology • bird • body cavity • Book • Brachiosauridae • Brachiosaurus • Brontosaurus • Carcharodontosauridae • Caudipteryx • Cenozoic • Centrosaurinae • Ceratosauria • Ceratosaurus • Clade • Coelurus • Compsognathus • Cretaceous • Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event • Darren Naish • Deinonychus • Dinosaur • Dinosaur behavior • Dinosaur renaissance • Diplodocus • Dromaeosauridae • Early Jurassic • Eotyrannus • evolutionary history of life • flightless bird • Forelimb • Friedrich von Huene • George Olshevsky • Herbivore • Heterodontosauridae • Hylaeosaurus • hypsilophodon • Iguanodon • Jack Horner (paleontologist) • Jaw • John Ostrom • Jurassic • Late Cretaceous • Late Jurassic • Mammal • Maniraptora • Marginocephalia • Megalosauridae • Megalosaurus • Mesozoic • Middle Jurassic • Morrison Formation • Mural • Nanotyrannus • Omnivore • Origin of birds • ornithischia • Ornithopod • Osteoderm • Oviraptor • paleontology • Peter Dodson • plateosaurus • predation • Protarchaeopteryx • Protoceratops • pterosaur • Reptile • Rhinoceros • Saurischia • Sauropoda • Sauropodomorpha • Sediment • Sinornithosaurus • Sinosauropteryx • Spinosauridae • Stegosauria • Stegosaurus • Taxon • Therizinosaur • Theropoda • Thyreophora • titanosaur • Triassic • Triceratops • Troodontidae • Typing • Tyrannosauridae • Tyrannosauroidea • Tyrannosaurus • Velociraptor • vertebra • Zigong Dinosaur Museum
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22860-4 / 0691228604
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22860-0 / 9780691228600