| Description |
viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
The reference shelf ; v. 83, no. 2
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Reference shelf ; v. 83, no. 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. What were the dinosaurs?: Dinosauria/ Kevin Padian and Paul M. Barrett -- Dinosaur dreams: reading the bones of America's psychic mascot. / Jack HItt -- Extreme dinosaurs/ John Updike -- Flesh & bone: a new generation of scientists brings dinosaurs back to life. / Joel Achenbach -- Dinosaurs under the knife / Erik Stokstad. -- 2. Bone sharps, fossil hunters, and dinosaur experts: Where dinosaurs roamed/ Genevieve Rajewski -- For fossil hunters, Gobi is no desert / John Noble Wilford -- Journey to the past / Kylie Piper -- Bone hunt: a reporter's week in the wilds of Montana/ Sid Perkins -- Dinosaur shocker! / Helen Fields -- The dino wars/ Donovan Webster. -- 3. Of a feather? The bird-dinosaur link : Are birds dinosaurs? new evidence muddies the picture / Carolyn Gramlin -- Which came first, the feather or the bird?/ Richard O. Prum and Alan H. Brush -- Bird's-eye view/ Matthew T. Carrano and Patrick M. O'Connor -- Dinotopia/ Jeff Hecht -- Origin of species: how a T. Rex femur sparked a scientific smackdown / Evan Ratliff. -- 4. Mass extinction: what killed the dinosaurs?: Were dinosaurs the victims of a single catastrophe? Yes, and an asteroid did the deed./ David Fastovsky. -- Were dinosaurs the victims of a single catastrophe? No, it only finished them off./ J. David Archibald. -- New theory on dinosaurs: multiple meteorites did them in / William J. Broad. -- Yucatan asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs, study says / Angela Botzer -- I am become death, destroyer of worlds. -- A theory set in stone: an asteroid killed the dinosaurs, after all / Katherine Harmon. -- 5. New discoveries: The hunt for predator X / James O'Donoghue. -- Bringing up baby: the evidence mounts that some dinosaurs were attentive parents./ David J. Varricchio -- Winged victory. / Gareth Dyke. -- Blood from stone: how fossils can preserve soft tissue / Mary H. Schweitzer -- Dinosaurs' living decendants/ Richard Stone. |
| Subject |
Dinosaurs.
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Dinosaurs. |
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Paleontologists.
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Paleontologists. |
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Dinosaurs -- Evolution.
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Dinosaurs -- Evolution. |
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Dinosaurs -- Extinction.
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Dinosaurs -- Extinction. |
| Added Author |
Meier, John J.
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| ISBN |
9780824211073 alkaline paper |
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0824211073 alkaline paper |
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