Pickrell Flying Dinosaurs

How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53878-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Recent fossil discoveries prove dinosaurs didn’t die out after al--instead, they turned into birds, opening up thrilling new possibilities in our knowledge of the prehistoric world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pickrell, John

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Vögel (Ornithologie)
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläozoologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Philip Currie
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

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

John Pickrell is an award-winning science writer and the editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington, D.C., and Sydney for numerous publications, including New Scientist, Science, Science News, and Cosmos. He has been a finalist for the Australian Museum's Eureka Prizes three times, has won an Earth Journalism Award, and has been featured in the 2011 and 2014 editions of The Best Australian Science Writing.