Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew / John Pickrell.
Pickrell, John, author.
2016
QE861.4 .P53 2016 (Mapit)
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Title Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew / John Pickrell.
Author Pickrell, John, author.
ISBN 9780231180986 (hardcover)
0231180985 (hardcover)
9780231543392 (electronic book)
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Language English
Description xv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number QE861.4 .P53 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 567.9
Summary "From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. Pickrell opens a vivid portal to a brand-new age of fossil discovery, in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we know and how we think about prehistory's most iconic and fascinating creatures."--Jacket.
Note "First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of UNSW Press Ltd."--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.
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Foreword / by Philip Currie
Introduction : a new golden age for dinosaur science
Monster from the Cretaceous lagoon : the Sahara, Egypt
All hail the dino-bat : Hebei Province, China
Dwarf dinosaurs and trailblazing aristocrats : Transylvania, Romania
Horny ornaments and sexy ceratopsians : Alberta, Canada
The 'unusual terrible hands' : Gobi Desert, Mongolia
Scandalous behaviour and enfluffled vegetarians : Siberia, Russia
Cretaceous creatures of the frozen north : Alaska, United States
The hidden treasures Down Under : Lightning Ridge, Australia
Record-breaking titans : Patagonia, Argentina
Southern killers set adrift : Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar
Polar pioneers and the frozen crested lizard : Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica
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