The complete dinosaur
by Brett-Surman, M. K. Farlow, James Orville Holtz, Thomas R.
What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell us about the process of evolution? And why did typical dinosaurs become extinct?
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- Full title :The complete dinosaur / edited by M.K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., and James O. Farlow ; Bob Walters, art consultant.
Summary
What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs tell us about the process of evolution? And why did typical dinosaurs become extinct?
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- Publication Date:2012.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington, Ind
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:xii, 1112 pages : : illustrations (some color) ; : 29 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780253357014, 0253357012, 9780253008497, 0253008492, 9780253333490, 0253333490
- oclc:ocn770694181
- LC Classification:QE862.D5
- Dewey Decimal:567.9
Table of Contents
Dinosaurs : the earliest discoveries / David A.E. Spalding and William A.S. Sarjeant -- Politics and paleontology : Richard Owen and the invention of dinosaurs / Hugh S. Torrens -- European dinosaur hunters of the 19th and 20th centuries / Hans-Dieter Sues -- North American dinosaur hunters / Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar -- The search for dinosaurs in Asia / Corwin Sullivan, David W.E. Hone, and Xing Xu -- Dinosaur hunters of the southern continents / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. -- Hunting for dinosaur bones / David D. Gillette -- The osteology of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman -- Reconstructing the musculature of dinosaurs / David W. Dilkes [and others] -- Dinosaur paleoneurology / Emily Buchholtz -- The taxonomy and systematics of the dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz Jr. and M.K. Brett-Surman -- Dinosaurs and geologic time / James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow -- Technology and the study of dinosaurs / Ralph E. Chapman [and others] -- Claws, scales, beaks, and feathers : molecular traces in the fossil record / Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall -- Dinosaurs as museum exhibits / Kenneth Carpenter -- Restoring dinosaurs as living an…
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