Amazing dinosaurs : [more feathers, more claws, big horns, wide jaws!]

Título
Amazing dinosaurs : [more feathers, more claws, big horns, wide jaws!]

Dougal. Dixon

Resumen
Bite-sized facts and full-colour illustrations accompany information on how paleontologists gather fossils and put together accurate pictures of what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.

Subtitle on cover: More feathers, more claws, big horns, wide jaws

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2007

Descripción física
128 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Edición
2nd ed.

Nota general
Updated ed. of Dougal Dixon's amazing dinosaurs.
 
Subtitle from cover.

Contenido
Dinosaur family tree -- Meat eaters -- Inside story -- Starting small -- Pack hunters -- Early killers -- Big and fierce -- Fish-eaters -- Fast killers -- Dinosaurs to birds -- Single claws -- Sprinters -- Smart for its age -- Terrible reptiles -- Island hunter -- Long- necked plant eaters -- Inside a giant -- Early biggies -- Bigger and bigger -- Going to extremes -- Unusual necks -- Chinese giants -- Going for height -- Unusual plates -- Plates with ridges -- Small-scale giant -- Unusual teeth -- Vulnerable in life -- Armored dinosaurs -- Early armor -- Plate bearers -- Big plate carrier -- Spikes and armor -- Side spikes -- Tail clubber -- Colorful clubs -- Boneheads -- Beginnings of horns -- Strange horns -- Big frills -- The greatest horns -- On the move -- Two-footed plant-eaters -- Early examples -- Iguana-tooth -- Fast runners -- Living in the cold -- Giant of Africa -- Duckbills -- Showy heads -- More duckbills -- Nests and eggs -- Safety in speed -- Safety in numbers -- Death and decay -- Discovery.

Término de la materia
Dinosaurs.

Autor añadido
Kirk, Steve,

Título añadido
Dougal Dixon's amazing dinosaurs.

Síntesis
Bite-sized facts and full-colour illustrations accompany information on how paleontologists gather fossils and put together accurate pictures of what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.

ISBN
9781590785379

Información de publicación
Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c2007.


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