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My beloved Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs / Brian Switek.
Author
Black, Riley
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description
256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
QE862.S3 S94 2013
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Apatosaurus
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Miscellanea
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Paleontology
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Miscellanea
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Popular culture
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Dinosaurs
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Paleontology
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Mesozoic
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Summary note
"Paleontology meets pop culture in a young author's journey into the lives of dinosaurs"-- Provided by publisher.
A regular columnist for Smithsonian and Wired questions our long-held beliefs about dinosaurs and presents the latest scientific findings on what colors they really were, how they got so big and how they actually may have died out.
Notes
Jacket interior unfolds to form a col. poster.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-237) and index.
Contents
Prologue: My dinosaur life
Dragons of the prime
The secret of dinosaur success
Big Bang theory
The dinosaurs, they are a-changin'
Jurassic thunder
Dinosaur society
Dinosaur feathers
Hadrosaur harmonics and Tyrannosaur tastes
In the bones
Dinosaurs undone
Epilogue: My beloved "brontosaurus".
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Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs
ISBN
9780374135065 (hbk.)
0374135061 (hbk.)
LCCN
2012034530
OCLC
795174375
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