My beloved Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs / Brian Switek.

Author
Black, Riley [Browse]
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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      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".
      Other title(s)
      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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