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This beautifully produced and illustrated volume is the result of sophisticated scientific research. However, it has been written in clear laymen’s language for nonscientists who have serious interest in paleontology. Author Henry Gee provides naturalists’ notes on more than 50 different dinosaur species. His information is supplemented with dramatic, anatomically accurate full-color illustrations of each dinosaur. Material in this book is based on findings of dinosaur remains in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Antarctica, and is divided according to time periods: Triassic, Jurassic, Early- and Mid-Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous. At-a-glance icons convey key ...
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This beautifully produced and illustrated volume is the result of sophisticated scientific research. However, it has been written in clear laymen’s language for nonscientists who have serious interest in paleontology. Author Henry Gee provides naturalists’ notes on more than 50 different dinosaur species. His information is supplemented with dramatic, anatomically accurate full-color illustrations of each dinosaur. Material in this book is based on findings of dinosaur remains in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Antarctica, and is divided according to time periods: Triassic, Jurassic, Early- and Mid-Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous. At-a-glance icons convey key information about each animal, including size, taxonomy, geological period of origin, and geographical location of discovered bones. The book also presents general background information on the 180 million years of the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic era, including details on Mesozoic plants and animals and the modern story of dinosaur discovery. More than 500

vivid illustrations are all in full color.

Editorial Reviews

Ed Sullivan
If readers miss paleontologist Gee's introduction, they might assume all the information in this impressive volume is true. As it happens, the book is a fascinating mix of fact and fiction, introducing dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. The layout and design of the book are reminiscent of a field guide to birds. That's a particularly fitting comparison because one of Gee's goals is to present the fact and speculation related to the idea that birds evolved directly from dinosaurs. A brief but detailed introduction to the field of paleontology and a look at competing theories about dinosaurs are followed by profiles of dinosaur species. Accompanying the text (and frequently overwhelming it) are stunning color illustrations by a professional dinosaur artist. Rey depicts the prehistoric creatures as ferocious and birdlike, with beaks, feathers, and wings. The fascinating, attractively designed and beautifully illustrated book is sure to pique imaginations.
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Publishers Weekly
"One thing must be made clear from the start: this is a work of fiction." Having gotten that admission out of the way at the very beginning of his text, paleontologist Gee, a senior editor at the prestigious journal Nature, goes on to explain that picturing the outsides of dinosaurs known to us only by their bones is inherently an act of imagination, but one based on scientific realities. Did dinosaurs do mating dances? Nobody knows, but many animals do, so perhaps dinos did, too. And since dinosaurs are now believed by many to be the ancestors of birds, it makes sense to imagine them in as wide a range of colors as today's avian species. Each of 56 dinosaur species is presented here through black-and-white sketches of heads and claws and other body parts, and in full-color, full-body paintings that are indeed striking for the range of colors and textures: blues and greens and reds, with speckles and stripes, scales and feathers. Rey, a leading dinosaur artist, pictures his subjects in action, climbing trees, chasing prey, baring their fearsome fangs in habitats ranging from jungle to seaside. At the end of his introduction, Gee returns to the question of veracity-the dinosaurs probably didn't look as pictured here, he admits: "they were far, far stranger." But dinophiles will enjoy this excursion into a vividly illustrated possible past world. (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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Gr 6-9-"One thing must be made clear from the start: this is a work of fiction." So states the first line of the extensive, well-written introduction, and should readers skip it and dive headlong into the sumptuous "field guide," they may take for unshakable fact material that, while based on current findings, is largely extrapolation. Gee discusses a wide variety of topics-fur, feathers, color, an "imagined reality," the dinosaur-bird connection, continental drift, and the nature of the Mesozoic world. A time line, an excellent cladogram, instructions for using the "field guide," and a warning regarding the speculative nature of many of the "facts" presented are included. The "field guide" is divided into the Triassic, Jurassic, Early and Mid-Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous periods, presenting representative dinosaurs from each one. Rey offers a host of small black-and-white sketches and vividly dramatic, brilliantly colored paintings as well. Many of the selected saurians are the "usual suspects"-T. rex, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and the like-but a horde of the newest finds, such as Masiakasaurus, Amargasaurus, and Muttaburrasaurus, are also included. As in a standard field guide, a global-positioning map for each dinosaur is included, as is information on description and size and paragraphs on distinguishing features, habits, and habitats. Handsome and engrossing, this book should have a large and appreciative audience, especially among fans of the stunning videos of Walking with Dinosaurs (BBC).-Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780764155116
  • Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/1/2003
  • Edition description: 1ST US
  • Pages: 144
  • Product dimensions: 9.12 (w) x 10.70 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Meet the Author


Henry Gee is a paleontologist and a senior editor of Nature, a major weekly science journal. He is also author of In Search of Deep Time, published by Cornell University Press.

Luis V. Rey is one of the most highly respected dinosaur artists working today. His images are based on rigorous anatomical study, which keeps him in demand by many leading dinosaur experts.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6
Triassic Period 28
Coelophysis 30
Eoraptor 34
Herrerasaurus 36
Liliensternus 38
Plateosaurus 39
Isanosaurus 42
Jurassic Period 44
Cryolophosaurus 46
Massospondylus 47
Allosaurus 50
Diplodocus 52
Ornitholestes 54
Ceratosaurus 56
Stegosaurus 57
Archaeopteryx 60
Compsognathus 62
Scelidosaurus 63
Brachiosaurus 64
Tuojiangosaurus 66
Yangchuanosaurus 68
Mamenchisaurus 70
Early and Midcretaceous Period 72
Acrocanthosaurus 74
Deinonychus 76
Zuniceratops 78
Amargasaurus 80
Giganotosaurus 81
Baryonyx 82
Eotyrannus 84
Hypsilophodon 85
Iguanodon 88
Scipionyx 89
Carcharodontosaurus 90
Ouranosaurus 92
Spinosaurus 94
Suchomimus 96
Beipiaosaurus 98
Microraptor 100
Psittacosaurus 102
Sinovenator 103
Sinornithosaurus 106
Minmi 108
Muttaburrasaurus 110
Late Cretaceous Period 112
Edmontonia 114
Pachycephalosaurus 116
Triceratops 117
Tyrannosaurus 120
Carnotaurus 122
Saltasaurus 123
Masiakasaurus 126
Rapetosaurus 128
Charonosaurus 130
Deinocheirus 131
Gallimimus 132
Oviraptor 134
Therizinosaurus 135
Shuvuuia 136
Protoceratops 138
Velociraptor 139
Glossary 140
Index 142
Credits 144

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