Weird Dinosaurs (eBook)
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54339-2 (ISBN)
John Pickrell is an award-winning science writer and editor of Australian Geographic. He is also the author of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Columbia, 2014).
“A tour de force…highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago.”—Sydney Morning Herald 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. “This history of the discovery of some of the most outlandish creatures that ever lived, and the excitement of paleontological research, will be sure to both entertain and instruct.”—Spencer Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Sixth Edition “Fascinating.... Readers learn of beautiful opalised dinosaur bones from Australia and a crested dinosaur found approximately 13,000 feet up Antarctica's Mt. Kirkpatrick, demonstrating that dinosaurs were widely distributed across the globe.”—Publishers Weekly
John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist, the editor of Australian Geographic magazine, and the author of Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Columbia, 2014). He has worked in London, Washington, D.C., and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News, and Cosmos. His articles can also be found online and in print at BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, and the ABC. He studied biology at Imperial College in the United Kingdom and at the Natural History Museum, London.
World MapForeword, by Philip CurrieIntroduction: A New Golden Age for Dinosaur Science1. Monster from the Cretaceous Lagoon: The Sahara, Egypt2. All Hail the Dino-Bat: Hebei Province, China3. Dwarf Dinosaurs and Trailblazing Aristocrats: Transylvania, Romania4. Horny Ornaments and Sexy Ceratopsians: Alberta, Canada5. The 'Unusual Terrible Hands': Gobi Desert, Mongolia6. Scandalous Behaviour and Enfluffled Vegetarians: Siberia, Russia7. Cretaceous Creatures of the Frozen North: Alaska, United States8. The Hidden Treasures Down Under: Lightning Ridge, Australia9. Record-breaking titans: Patagonia, Argentina10. Southern Killers Set Adrift: Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar11. Polar Pioneers and the Frozen Crested Lizard: Transantarctic Mountains, AntarcticaFuture PotentialGlossaryFurther ReadingAcknowledgmentsNotesCreditsIndex
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.6.2017 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Philip Currie |
| Zusatzinfo | 26 color illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-231-54339-5 / 0231543395 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-231-54339-2 / 9780231543392 |
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