This 224-page title is a guide to the fossil remains of these perenially fascinating creatures in the USA and Canada. Ten informative essays present the science and history of palaeontology, as well as tips for "rock hounds" and descriptions of the countries' best dinosaur parks and fossil sites. Practical tips sections tell you how to join a dinosaur dig and give listings of museums, paleontology organizations and specialist resources. The work is lavishly illustrated with more than 250 spectacular photographs as well as nine specially commissioned maps.
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Long before 19th-century scientists first began to search for dinosaur fossils, people were finding large bones with odd, yet somehow familiar, shapes and coming up with their own imaginative explanations of what they were. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North America, New Mexico, New York, Glen Rose, American Museum of Natural History, Egg Mountain, Ghost Ranch, Como Bluff, Dry Mesa, Dinosaur Ridge, Dinosaur National Monument, Museum of the Rockies, Devil's Coulee, Field Museum, Grand Junction, South Dakota, Black Hills Institute, Morrison Formation, Petrified Forest, Denver Museum of Natural History, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, United States, Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Academy of Natural Sciences New!
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Long before 19th-century scientists first began to search for dinosaur fossils, people were finding large bones with odd, yet somehow familiar, shapes and coming up with their own imaginative explanations of what they were. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dinosaur center, rex skull, duckbilled dinosaur, dinosaur hall, giant sauropods, fossil sites, dinosaur science, extended summer hours, dinosaur skin, dinosaur footprints, horned dinosaurs, dinosaur tracks, bone bed, state fossil, dinosaur fossils, large dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs, dinosaur bones, fossil hunters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, New Mexico, New York, Glen Rose, American Museum of Natural History, Egg Mountain, Ghost Ranch, Como Bluff, Dry Mesa, Dinosaur Ridge, Dinosaur National Monument, Museum of the Rockies, Devil's Coulee, Field Museum, Grand Junction, South Dakota, Black Hills Institute, Morrison Formation, Petrified Forest, Denver Museum of Natural History, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, United States, Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Academy of Natural Sciences New!
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- Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker on page 201, and Back Matter
- Lone Star Dinosaurs (Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series) by Louis Jacobs on page 178, and Back Matter
- The Far Side ® by Gary Larson on page 165
- Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by David Norman in Back Matter
- Mistaken Extinction (Previously Named "Dead or Alive?") by Lowell Dingus in Back Matter
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