Dinosaur Atlas

A Journey Through Time to the Prehistoric World

Tom Jackson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

64 Seiten

2022
Words & Pictures (Verlag)
978-0-7112-7039-8 (ISBN)

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In this follow-on to Football Atlas, Space Atlas and Ocean Atlas readers will be taken on a journey to the prehistoric world! On this Amazing Adventure readers will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived, and why they became extinct.

In this follow-on to Football Atlas, Space Atlas and Ocean Atlas readers will be taken on a journey to the prehistoric world! Dinosaur Atlas is a richly informative, beautifully illustrated book for dinosaur lovers everywhere, with an exciting new global perspective.

Take a trip through time to the prehistoric world! Stare down a Tyrannosaurus Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors’ slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Marvel at the size of the Giganotosaurus in Argentina. On this Amazing Adventure readers will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived, and why they became extinct.

What did the world look like during the Age of Dinosaurs?
What are fossils and how can we learn from them?
Who was the largest and most ferocious dinosaur of all?

This expansive guide to dinosaurs large and small answers all these questions and more as readers journey around a lost world and come face to face with dinosaurs!

Tom Jackson is a leading science writer who has over twenty years of experience writing books, magazine and newspaper articles, as well as pieces for online and for television. He writes about a wide range of subjects, but his specialities are natural history, technology and all things scientific. Previous projects include collaborations with Sir Patrick Moore, Carol Vorderman and 'rock star' scientist, Brian May. Maggie Li is a children's book illustrator and author based in London, UK. She is also art director at popular children's publication Okido magazine. A bit of a fact geek, Maggie loves to discover weird and wonderful things about the world around her. She is currently working on her third book.

Contents
Introduction
An Ever-Changing World
Making Fossils
Fossil Record
Before Dinosaurs
Coelophysis
Plateosaurus
Sinosaurus
Ocean Reptiles
Cryolophosaurus
Megalosaurus
Stegosaurus
Diplodocus
Brachiosaurus
Archaeopteryx
Sinornithosaurus
Nigersaurus
Muttaburrasaurus
Giganotosaurus
Spinosaurus
Maiasaura
Therizinosaurus
Parasaurolophus
Velociraptor
Quetzalcoatlus
Triceratops and
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Extinction
After Dinosaurs
The Dinosaur Family
Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Amazing Adventures
Illustrationen	Maggie Li
Zusatzinfo	color illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	235 x 290 mm
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Geschichte / Politik
	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher ► Tiere / Pflanzen / Natur
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
ISBN-10	0-7112-7039-2 / 0711270392
ISBN-13	978-0-7112-7039-8 / 9780711270398
Zustand	Neuware