Mahakala and Other Insect-Eating Dinosaurs

Mahakala and Other Insect-Eating Dinosaurs
Author: Dougal Dixon
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404851771

Discusses the dinosaurs that relied on insects as their main source of food.

Iguanodon and Other Leaf-Eating Dinosaurs

Iguanodon and Other Leaf-Eating Dinosaurs
Author: Dougal Dixon
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1404851747

Discusses the dinosaurs that relied on leaves as their main source of food.

Dinosaur Find

Dinosaur Find
Author: Dougal Dixon
Publisher: Picture Window Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781404848986

Dinosaur Find - Written by dinosaur expert Dougal Dixon, this series presents a diverse selection of dinosaurs, based on their behavior, continent, ecosystem, and region. Life-like illustrations and size comparisons provide readers with an up-close look at these extinct creatures.

Mega Rex

Mega Rex
Author: W. Scott Persons
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2020-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781550179057

Middle school readers can journey into the prehistoric world of tyrannosaurs and discover what it was like to excavate the world's largest T. rex skeleton.

The Sauropods

The Sauropods
Author: Kristina Curry Rogers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2005-12-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0520932331

Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive fossil record of skeletons and footprints that span the globe and 150 million years of earth history. This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive scientific summary of sauropod evolution and paleobiology. The contributors explore sauropod anatomy, detail its variations, and question the myth that life at large size led to evolutionary stagnation and eventual replacement by more "advanced" herbivorous dinosaurs. Chapters address topics such as the evolutionary history and diversity of sauropods; methods for creating three-dimensional reconstructions of their skeletons; questions of sauropod herbivory, tracks, gigantism, locomotion, reproduction, growth rates, and more. This book, together with the recent surge in sauropod discoveries around the world and taxonomic revisions of fragmentary genera, will shed new light on "nature's greatest extravagances."

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
Author: Tim Haines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Animals, Fossil
ISBN: 9781554071814

Text and digitally-created illustrations cover more than one hundred of the earliest beasts with profiles on their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and distribution across prehistoric Earth.

Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology
Author: J. Michael Parrish
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-07-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0253009472

Drawn from a 2005 international symposium, these essays explore current tyrannosaurid current research and discoveries regarding Tyrannosaurus rex. The opening of an exhibit focused on “Jane,” a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and “Sir William” and the generic status of Nanotyrannus; theropod teeth, pedal proportions, brain size, and craniocervical function; soft tissue reconstruction, including that of “Jane”; paleopathology and tyrannosaurid claws; dating the “Jane” site; and tyrannosaur feeding and hunting strategies. Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology highlights the far ranging and vital state of current tyrannosaurid dinosaur research and discovery. “Despite being discovered over 100 years ago, Tyrannosaurus rex and its kin still inspire researchers to ask fundamental questions about what the best known dinosaur was like as a living, breathing animal. Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology present a series of wide-ranging and innovative studies that cover diverse topics such as how tyrannosaurs attacked and dismembered prey, the shapes and sizes of feet and brains, and what sorts of injuries individuals sustained and lived with. There are also examinations of the diversity of tyrannosaurs, determinations of exactly when different kinds lived and died, and what goes into making a museum exhibit featuring tyrannosaurs. This volume clearly shows that there is much more to the study of dinosaurs than just digging up and cataloguing old bones.” —Donald M. Henderson, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology