"Movies and television shows have turned people of all ages into dinosaur fanatics. But what were these prehistoric creatures really like and what wiped them out? This high-interest series explores the lives of world-famous dinosaurs from diets to defences and examines what drove these great beasts to extinction. Maps size comparisons and other special features help bring the exciting world of dinosaurs to life."--

"Winner of the 2000 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science" J. William Schopf, a member of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, the Molecular Biology Institute, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the University of California, Los Angeles, is Professor of Paleobiology and Director of the IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life. A Member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical...

"Engaging images accompany information about the apatosaurus. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--

"Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from...

This is the story of Earl Douglass and his discovery of the first almost complete skeleton of an Apatosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs ever to roam Earth.

"Engaging images accompany information about the oviraptor. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--

"Introduces career opportunities in paleontology, describing day-to-day work, equipment used, education and training needed, and what readers can do now to advance towards this career." --

Sharks and dinosaurs--we find them both alien and awe-inspiring. This book is a plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a merciless realm ruled by the most ferocious animals ever to stalk the seas of planet Earth. More terrifying than anything known to humankind, it scarcely seems possible that these swift, massive underwater predators actually existed--but they did. The book interweaves dramatic scenes of the far, far distant past;...