LEADER 03503nam 2200553 450 001 9910467135303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54339-5 024 7 $a10.7312/pick18098 035 $a(CKB)3800000000210615 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276055 035 $a(DE-B1597)480308 035 $a(OCoLC)984688377 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543392 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5276055 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529546 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000210615 100 $a20180404h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aWeird dinosaurs $ethe strange new fossils challenging everything we though we knew /$fJohn Pickrell 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (242 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a0-231-18098-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tWorld Map -- $tForeword -- $tIntroduction: A New Golden Age for Dinosaur Science -- $t1. Monster from the Cretaceous Lagoon -- $t2. All Hail the Dino-Bat -- $t3. Dwarf Dinosaurs and Trailblazing Aristocrats -- $t4. Horny Ornaments and Sexy Ceratopsians -- $t5. The 'Unusual Terrible Hands' -- $t6. Scandalous Behaviour and Enfluffled Vegetarians -- $t7. Cretaceous Creatures of the Frozen North -- $t8. The Hidden Treasures Down Under -- $t9. Record-Breaking Titans -- $t10. Southern Killers Set Adrift -- $t11. Polar Pioneers and the Frozen Crested Lizard -- $tFuture Potential -- $tGlossary -- $tFurther Reading -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tCredits -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. Rex, which once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. Pickrell opens a vivid portal to a brand new age of fossil discovery, in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we know and how we think about prehistory's most iconic and fascinating creatures. 606 $aDinosaurs 606 $aAnimals, Fossil 606 $aPaleontology 606 $aPaleontological excavations 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDinosaurs. 615 0$aAnimals, Fossil. 615 0$aPaleontology. 615 0$aPaleontological excavations. 676 $a567.9 700 $aPickrell$b John$01030236 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467135303321 996 $aWeird dinosaurs$92469772 997 $aUNINA