Dinosaurs history

Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that appeard first approximately 230 million years ago. It is believed that 65 million years ago, dinosaurs suffered a catastrophic extinction. First dinosaurs was recognized in the 19th century, and since then many fossilized dinosaur skeletons have been displayed at museums around the world.

Dinosaur research

Dinosaur research has become very active in the 1970s. This was triggered, mostly by John Ostrom's discovery of Deinonychus, an active predator that may have been warm-blooded, in contrast to the extinct dinosaurs which were cold-blooded. Major new dinosaur discoveries have been made by paleontologists working in previously unexploited regions, including India, Madagascar, Antarctica, and in China where the well-preserved feathered dinosaurs in China have strengthen the link between dinosaurs and their descendants, modern birds.

Encyclopedia of dinosaurs

Encyclopedia of dinosaurs is written by well-known scientists and organized alphabetically by subject, the signed articles cover kinds of dinosaurs, biology, geology, research, and museums where dinosaurs are on display, including a worldwide list of museums and sites. There is some overlap with The Dinosauria in dinosaur descriptions, but this encyclopedia offers authoritative articles on many topics not covered in that work, such as "color," "intelligence," and "ornamentation." While the language may sometimes be too technical for the general reader, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs provides a nice link between popular and scientific dinosaur studies. The author of The Complete Dinosaur Dictionary (Carol Pub., 1995), which was aimed at young adults, Glut now offers a far more detailed and technical work oriented toward dinosaur material in museum collections. Following 74 pages of background information, the encyclopedia is devoted to an alphabetical list of dinosaur genera. Each entry tells the date of discovery, name derivation, occurrence, age, and diagnosis; gives a list of key print references; and refers to important museum specimens that have furthered the study of dinosaur paleontology.

Big book of dinosaurs

The big book of dinosaurs by DK Publishing is big in size and has the elaborate two-page spreads, the color models, and even the oversized type. Children can experience the amazing powers of these prehistoric beasts like the jagged teeth of the ferocious meat eaters, the slashing claws of the Deinonychus, and the long-necked Barosaurus that could reach five-story-high treetops and may have had eight hearts. Yet, like the dinosaurs themselves, there is nothing threatening or intimidating about this highly informative book. The text is brief and only conveying facts that children find interesting. (There's even an index for quick searches of favorite dinos.) The lifelike illustrations give young readers a solid sense of what dinosaur fossils and skeletal systems look like as well as clear mental pictures of how these creatures appeared in "real-life" millions of years ago.

Natural history museum book

The natural history museum book of dinosaurs by Tim Gardom, Angela Milner.

A highly illustrated introduction to a remarkable group of animals, based on the collection at London’s Natural History Museum which consist of 200 color photos and artworks.
For 160 million years, dinosaurs were the most successful and diverse creatures to dominate the Earth. This book is based on the world-famous fossil collections and permanent "Dinosaurs" exhibition at London’s Natural History Museum. Written by two experts from one of the world’s leading Paleontology departments, this book features hundreds of color photos and illustrations that reveal the variety of life that proliferated in the the Age of Dinosaurs. Tim Gardom has researched several major exhibitions, including The Natural History Museum’s acclaimed "Dinosaurs." Angela Milner is Head of Fossil Vertebrates at The Natural History Museum.

Dinosaurs factfinder

Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animal factfinder by Michael Benton.
The book is arranged in alphabetical order, which makes it easy to look up a creature. Most entries include pronunciations and meanings of the names. A small diagram shows its size compared to man; a time line indicates the geological period in which it lived. A map shows where dinosaurs lived on the landforms of their era. Brief introductory material explains how fossils are made, the age and history of the Earth, and classification systems of life forms. A directory of museums is included. This book can be used as a reference book, for browsing material, and as a fascinating exploration of the past, to be read cover to cover.

Dinosaurs are different

Dinosaurs are different by Aliki explains how the various orders and suborders of dinosaurs were similar and different in structure and appearance. You can learn a lot about dinosaurs by looking at their bones. Some dinosaurs were very small; others were huge. Some had sharp, pointy teeth for eating meat; most plant-eaters had flat, dull teeth. Some dinosaurs' hipbones pointed forward, while other dinosaurs' hipbones pointed backward. There were dinosaurs with bony armor on their backs and others with deadly horns on their heads. Today scientists have divided dinosaurs into separate orders according to their special characteristics.

Walking with dinosaurs

Walking with dinosaurs: A natural history by Tim Haines. The most spectacular aspect of the book is the images. By using computer graphics and animation of models the combined effects are wonderful new images of dinosaurs and other contemporary animals from marine and flying reptiles to mammals. The story starts in New Mexico, as it was 220 million years ago (Late Triassic times), and focuses on the early days of dinosaur evolution. We are progressing through four time frames before fetching up at the end of the dinosaur road with the aptly named Hell Creek in the western US, 65 million years ago at the time of the crisis which has concluded with dinosaur extinction.

National Geographic dinosaurs

National Geographic dinosaurs by Paul Barrett includes nearly 200 pages of well-organized information. From a chronology of the age of dinosaurs to lots of information about the creatures' habits. The heart of the book is the 50 or so profiles of individual dinosaurs, divided into the two major groups (bird-hipped and lizard-hipped). Each one includes size, location, and era, as well as basic information and facts. The attractive layout makes this a good resource for both browsing and for more in-depth research. A time line, fact file, and map for each species appears on the edge of the page. There are many full-page and two-page scenes, vividly capturing selected dinosaur species in action.

Awesome dinosaur jokes

Awesome Dinosaur Jokes for Kids by Bob Phillips.

In this book you will find many dinosaur jokes that children will love to hear. The book has 176 pages and is designed for kids ages 6 to 10. It is published by Harvest House Publishers.

Paleontology

Paleontology is the study of the history and development of life on Earth, including that of ancient plants and animals, like dinosaurs based on the fossil records which is evidence of their prehistoric existence as typically preserved in sedimentary rocks.

Timeline of paleontology.

1770 - The bones of a huge animal are found in a quarry near Maastricht in the Netherlands.
1795 - Georges Cuvier identifies the bones found in the Netherlands as belonging to extinct reptile.
1811 - Mary Anning discovers the fossilised remains of an ichthyosaur at Lyme Regis.
1821 - William Buckland finds the remains of a hyenas' den in Yorkshire, containing the bones of lions, elephants and rhinoceros.
1821-22 - Mary Anning discovers the world's first Plesiosaur skeleton at Lyme Regis.
1822 - Gideon Mantell discovers the fossilized skeleton of an Iguanodon dinosaur.
1823 - Human bones are found with those of the woolly mammoth at Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, proving that the two had lived on earth at the same time.
1836 - Edward Hitchcock describes the footprints of giant birds from Jurassic formations in Connecticut
1841 - Richard Owen creates the word "dinosaur"
1855 - The first Archaeopteryx fossil found in Bavaria, Germany.
1858 - The first dinosaur skeleton, Hadrosaurus, is excavated in the United States and described by Joseph Leidy
1871 - Othniel Charles Marsh discovers the first American pterosaur fossils.
1878 - The first Diplodocus skeleton is found at Como Bluff, Wyoming
1905 - Tyrannosaurus rex is described and named by Henry Fairfield Osborn
1909 - Discovery of the Burgess Shale Cambrian fossil site
1912 - Continental Drift proposed by Alfred Wegener, leading to plate tectonics and explanation of many surface features.
1920 - Milutin Milanković proposes that long term climatic cycles may be due to changes in the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit and changes in the Earth's obliquity
1947 - Willard Libby introduces carbon-14 dating
1974 - Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover a 3.5 million-year-old female hominid fossil that is 40% complete and name it "Lucy"
1980 - Luis Alvarez, Walter Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel propose that a giant comet or asteroid may have struck the Earth approximately 65 million years ago thereby causing massive extinctions and enriching the iridium in the K-T layer.
1984 - Hou Xianguang discovers the Chengjiang Cambrian fossil site.