Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour, Second Edition: Everything Worth Knowing About Dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops (Second) (eBook)

Keiron Pim (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 2., Second
368 Seiten
The Experiment, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61519-525-1 (ISBN)

Infos

We live in a golden age of archaeological discovery—the perfect time to dig into the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two‑ and four‑legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops, who boasted a deadly pair of horns, Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour, Second Edition details everything worth knowing about more than 300 dinosaurs. The important discoveries and gory details touch on topics from geology, anatomy, and evolution to astronomy and even Native American and Chinese myth. Fascinating facts abound: Giganotosaurus was longer, two tons heavier, and had bigger jaws than T. Rex.The poison‑spitting Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park wasn’t actually venomous at all.Because of its bizarre single‑clawed hands, scientists now believe Mononykus was a prehistoric ancestor of the anteater!Illustrations on virtually every page, true to the latest findings, bring these prehistoric creatures to life in all their razor‑sharp, long‑necked, spiny, scaly glory.

Autor

As a small boy in the early 1980s nothing seemed more exciting to Keiron Pim than a visit to London’s renowned Natural History Museum, where he would gaze up at the Diplodocus skeleton and later depart clutching some little dinosaur‑related memento: an eraser shaped like Stegosaurus, a lurid poster of a Jurassic scene, or a book crammed with dino‑facts. It would have blown his four‑year‑old mind to know that thirty years later a book on dinosaurs would be his first publication. Keiron, married with three young daughters, is a writer and journalist now based in Norfolk, England.John “Jack” Horner is one of the world’s foremost paleontologists, credited with finding the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos. He served as the inspiration for Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant in Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, and as the technical advisor on all of the Jurassic Park films. Horner is Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, and Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University.  

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.12.2019
• Co-Autor: Jack Horner
• Illustrationen: Fabio Pastori
• Zusatzinfo: Color illustrations throughout
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Schlagworte: anatomy • animal • Book • David Attenborough • Dinosaur • dinosaur anatomy • dinosaur geology • dinosaur guide • dinosaur history • dinosaur theory • Discovered • Discoveries • Encyclopedia • extinction • for kids • for teens • fossils • Gift • Guide • History • Holiday • Idea • Ideas • Jurassic • Latest • List • Nat Geo • National Geographic • News • paleontology • prehistoric planet • Science • Smithsonian • theory • T Rex • Velociraptor • Visual • wooly mammoth
• ISBN-10: 1-61519-525-4 / 1615195254
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61519-525-1 / 9781615195251