Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life: The Amazing History of Earth’s Most Incredible Animals

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Journey back in time and find out where the dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. Part of the best-selling What's Where on Earth series, this atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 50 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T. Rex in North America. Watch out for the Velociraptors' slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Trek across the Siberian tundra and discover a woolly mammoth. This stunning book makes every animal come to life using breathtaking computer-generated imagery. Using specially commissioned maps, this dinosaur atlas shows you what the world looked like millions of years ago. A modern 3D globe next to each map helps you understand the arrangement of the continents over time and why we find fossils where we do. You can see what paleontologists (dinosaur experts) have dug up over the centuries in each continent and learn how they put together a picture of the past from a puzzle of ancient clues. Where on Earth? Dinosaurs reveals the prehistoric world as never before, and is an essential addition to the library of every young dinosaur expert. Contents......Page 4 Rise of the dinosaurs......Page 8 Timeline of Earth......Page 10 Early life......Page 12 Triassic world......Page 14 Jurassic world......Page 16 Cretaceous world......Page 18 What is a dinosaur?......Page 20 North America......Page 22 Coelophysis......Page 24 Stegosaurus......Page 26 Three against one......Page 28 Allosaurus......Page 30 Ceratosaurus......Page 32 Diplodocus......Page 34 Corythosaurus......Page 36 Albertosaurus......Page 38 Ankylosaurus......Page 40 Tyrannosaurus......Page 42 Daylight attack......Page 44 Triceratops......Page 46 Pachycephalosaurus......Page 48 Fossil finds......Page 50 South America......Page 52 Herrerasaurus......Page 54 Chilesaurus......Page 56 Giganotosaurus......Page 58 Fighting it out......Page 60 Argentinosaurus......Page 62 Carnotaurus......Page 64 Fossil finds......Page 66 Europe......Page 68 Plateosaurus......Page 70 Muddy swamps......Page 72 Ophthalmosaurus......Page 74 Archaeopteryx......Page 76 Iguanodon......Page 78 Baryonyx......Page 80 Polacanthus......Page 82 Pelecanimimus......Page 84 Hatzegopteryx......Page 86 Today’s catch......Page 88 Fossil finds......Page 90 Africa......Page 92 Mesosaurus......Page 94 Lystrosaurus......Page 96 Giraffatitan......Page 98 Spinosaurus......Page 100 A fish dinner......Page 102 Fossil finds......Page 104 Asia......Page 106 Shunosaurus......Page 108 Psittacosaurus......Page 110 Yutyrannus......Page 112 Surprise attack......Page 114 Microraptor......Page 116 Velociraptor......Page 118 Fossil finds......Page 120 Australia and Antarctica......Page 122 Cryolophosaurus......Page 124 A welcome discovery......Page 126 Muttaburrasaurus......Page 128 Leaellynasaura......Page 130 Fossil finds......Page 132 After the dinosaurs......Page 134 Titanoboa......Page 136 Gastornis......Page 138 Basilosaurus......Page 140 Smilodon......Page 142 Woolly mammoth......Page 144 Hunting in the grasslands......Page 146 Varanus priscus......Page 148 Reference......Page 150 Fossilization......Page 152 Early fossils and hunters......Page 154 Mass extinctions......Page 156 Glossary......Page 158 Index......Page 160 Acknowledgments......Page 162