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Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew

By John Pickrell

Book information

Publisher
NewSouth
Year
2016
ISBN
1742234739, 9781742234731
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1637090 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
242\0
Topic
Biology
Time added
2019-02-28 06:23:58

Description

We’re in a golden age of discovery – and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined. From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new discoveries and meets the fossil hunters leading the charge. Discover the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron, an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex, the Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat, and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it was heavier than two commercial jet airliners. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? Did they all have feathers? And what do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past.

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