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Author Horner, John R.

Title Dinosaur lives : unearthing an evolutionary saga / John R. Horner and Edwin Dobb.

Publication Info. San Diego : Harcourt Brace, 1998.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  QE862.D5 H644 1998    Available  ---
Edition 1st Harvest ed.
Description viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series A harvest book
Harvest book.
Note Originally published: New York : HarperCollins, c1997.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Dinosaurs in captivity? -- Captivating dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs lost, dinosaurs found -- Beyond egg mountain -- Through the eyes of a pelican -- Waltzing to the rhythm of the western sea -- Another look at the lowlands -- From eggs to evolution -- Suspicious species -- Witness to creation -- Extinction as a way of life -- Man and dinosaur: What's ahead? -- Aferword: What's a dinosaur worth?
Summary Famed paleontologist John Horner takes readers into the field and into the laboratory as he shares his revelations about the survival and extinction of the dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth for more than 150 million years. 33 drawings & photos. In this "wonderful benchmark of dinosaur studies"-Los Angeles Times, the paleontologist who advised Steven Spielberg on Jurassic Park gives readers an eye-opening tour of dinosaur discoveries and controversies and a close-up look at his own pioneering fieldwork. Line drawings and black-and-white photographs.
Subject Dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs.
Added Author Dobb, Edwin, 1950-
ISBN 0156006073
9780156006071