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

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

Dougal. Dixon

Sommaire
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

Date de publication comme intervalle
2007

Description matérielle
128 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.

Edition
2nd ed.

Note générale
Updated ed. of Dougal Dixon's amazing dinosaurs.
 
Subtitle from cover.

Table des matières
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.

Terme de vedette-matière
Dinosaurs.

Vedette secondaire auteur
Kirk, Steve,

Vedette secondaire - titre
Dougal Dixon's amazing dinosaurs.

Résumé
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.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9781590785379

Informations de publication
Honesdale, Pa. : Boyds Mills Press, c2007.


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