Flying dinosaurs : how fearsome reptiles became birds /

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Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic. The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Wer...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pickrell, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2014.
Subjects:
Pterosauria.
Dinosaurs.
Birds.
Dinosaurs
Birds
Ptérosauriens.
Dinosaures.
Oiseaux.
Dinosauria (extinct superorder)
NATURE > Fossils.
NATURE > Animals > Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures.
Pterosauria
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: A whole New World; Before We Begin; 1. The missing link; 2. A feathered revolution begins; 3. The dinosaur hunters; 4. From dinosaur to bird; 5. Fake fossils; 6. The evolution of feathers; 7. The struggle to the skies; 8. Sex for T. rex; 9. Colouring in the dinosaurs; 10. Back from the dead; 11. The survival game; Relationships of the theropod dinosaurs; An A-Z of Feathered Dinosaurs; REFERENCES; GLOSSARY; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX.

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