Dinosaurs of Darkness (eBook)

Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich (Autoren)

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2020 | 2., Second Edition
330 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-04740-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The award-winning first edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest discoveries and interpretations, along with over 100 new photographs and charts, many in color.

1. This is a second edition of IUP's very popular Dinosaurs of Darkness. The second edition has been completely updated with many new photographs and charts.

2. This very readable book as much a scientific adventure story of discovery as a look at the dinosaurs themselves.

3. The authors are THE experts on dinosaurs in Australia, and were pioneers in their discovery.

4. The 1st edition was in black and white, with one small color insert. This one has lots of color throughout.

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“A valuable volume detailing an underexplored region of the world of dinosaurs . . . essential reading for any dino-devotee.” —ForeWordDinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who have played crucial roles in their discovery, describe how they and others collected the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm and how painstaking laboratory work and analyses continue to unlock the secrets of the polar dinosaurs. This scientific adventure makes for a fascinating story: it begins with one destination in mind and ends at another, arrived at by a most roundabout route, down byways and back from dead ends. Dinosaurs of Darkness is a personal, absorbing account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard—and rewarding—it is to mine the knowledge of this remarkable life of the past. The award-winning first edition has now been thoroughly updated with the latest discoveries and interpretations, along with over 100 new photographs and charts, many in color.

Autor

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Thomas H. Rich is Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. He is affiliated with Swinburne University of Technology and Monash University.

Patricia Vickers-Rich is Professor of Palaeontology in the School of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Swinburne University of Technology, an Emeritus Professor of Palaeobiology in the School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment at Monash University and a Research Associate at both Museums Victoria and Deakin University in the Melbourne and Geelong regions of Victoria, Australia. She is also a Research Associate of the Precambrian Laboratory at the Borissak Paleontologic Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She is also Director of PrimeSCI! the Wantirna campus of the Swinburne University of Technology, also in Melbourne, Australia.

Inhalt

Foreword by Frank C. Whitmore, Jr.
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Dinosaur Cove
2. The Crossing of the Rubicon
3. Back to Dinosaur Cove
4. Interlude
5. Underground at Dinosaur Cove
6. New Explorations
7. Restoring Life of the Past
8. New Explorations
9. Other Eggs, Other Baskets
10. An Unexpected Surprise
11. Getting through the Winter
12. Multiple Working Hypotheses
13. The Other Hemisphere
14. Where Are We Now; Where Are We Going?
15. Afterthoughts
Notes
Literature Cited
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Life of the Past
• Zusatzinfo: 150 color illus., 46 b&w illus.
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
• Schlagworte: 100 million • Antarctica • Australia • Dinosaur • dinosaur cove • Dinosaurs • Fossil • Frank C. Whitmore • Paleo • paleontology • Patricia Vickers-Rich • Prehistory • Rubicon • Science • Scientific • Thomas H. Rich
• ISBN-10: 0-253-04740-4 / 0253047404
• ISBN-13: 978-0-253-04740-3 / 9780253047403