Fastovsky, Weishampel, "The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs"

2005 | ISBN: 0521811724 | 498 pages | PDF | 76.2 MB

This new edition of The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs is a unique, comprehensive treatment of this fascinating group of organisms. It is a detailed survey of dinosaur origins, their diversity, and their eventual extinction. The book can easily be used as a teaching textbook for a class, but it is also written as a series of readable, entertaining essays covering important and timely topics appealing to non-specialists and all dinosaur enthusiasts: birds as "living dinosaurs", the new feathered dinosaurs from China, "warm-bloodedness".