@article{776076,
      recid = {776076},
      author = {Pickrell, John,},
      title = {Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging  everything we thought we knew /},
      pages = {xv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      note = {"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of  UNSW Press Ltd."--Title page verso.},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/776076},
}