Download or read book The Smartest Dinosaurs written by Don Lessem and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these smart dinosaurs face-to-face: Troodon were the smartest dinosaurs! They would dig their prey (small rodents) out of the ground and could predict the movements of bugs! Giganotosaurus can recognize many dinosaurs from very far away by their smell! The Deinonychus worked together to sneak up on and surround their prey! Plus, you'll get to know Gallimimus, Laellynasaura, Microraptor, and Tyrannosaurus Rex!
Download or read book The Smallest Dinosaur in the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book World s Smallest Dinosaurs written by Rupert Matthews and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about some of the smallest dinosaurs to have roamed the Earth.
Download or read book Cecil the Smallest Dinosaur written by Michael Salmon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Littlest Dinosaurs written by Bernard Most and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes some of the smaller dinosaurs, all measuring fourteen feet or under, in terms of fact and fancy.
Download or read book Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs written by Alan Feduccia and published by BrownWalker Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birds and dinosaurs have dominated human interest for decades. In this well-supported revolutionary view of the field, critical questions are explored with credible evidence and biological thought. Are birds derived directly from advanced dinosaurs, or are they closely related dinosaur cousins? Did flight originate via the natural "gravity-assisted" trees-down model, or from the improbable “gravity-resisted” ground-up model? Were the earliest birds ground-predators or trunk-climbing gliders? Were dinosaurs hot-blooded with insulating protofeathers, or highly active, cold-blooded reptiles? These are among the questions addressed in this path-breaking book. Current consensus suggests that early birds were earth-bound and flight began on the ground. Reversing that logic, since birds are hot-blooded, by inference so too were dinosaurs, and extraordinarily complex feathers, flight brain and inner ear, evolved before flight in dinosaurs. The iconic early bird Archaeopteryx, despite innumerable flight and arboreal features, is now displayed as an earth-bound predator that could not fly. In reality, we have yet to provide satisfactory explanations for much of the biological origin and early evolution of birds. Among the questions addressed is whether truly feathered dinosaurs are in reality lost or "hidden birds?" The architectural complexity of feathers leads the author to the conclusion that if an animal has evolved extraordinarily complex, aerodynamically-designed feathers, an avian flight hand, flight membranes, and a flight brain, it's a bird. Birds and dinosaurs captivate and enchant the human imagination. These intriguing animals have dominated the field of paleontology and evolution for the past half century, engendering heated debate on avian ancestry, the origin of flight and feathers, and the biology of their fossils. Are birds living dinosaurs? In this series of entertainingly contentious and captivating essays evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia writes with verve and humor to expose major problems in the field and advocate liberation from the shackles of consensus thinking about birds and dinosaurs. He maintains that the euphoria of paleontologists claiming to have solved the major problems of bird evolution is premature, largely generated by the adoption of a rigid, cult-like methodology, heavily blended with ideology, and excluding many biological and geological principles. He adroitly exposes and elucidates major mistakes in the field and their aftermath. Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs is a lucid revelation of clarity and synthesis, a fascinating unveiling of the underlying science that has produced the good, but also often appalling fossil research and wild speculation in bird and dinosaur evolution. A must read for anyone interested in this rapidly evolving field, the short, concise and incisive essays provide the reader with access to this complex topic. REVIEWS and WORDS OF PRAISE In this strikingly unconventional and brilliant book, Professor Alan Feduccia presents the current status of the recent controversy about the origin of birds with clarity and vigor. A thought-provoking personal exploration of what the bird fossils represent. ---Sankar Chatterjee, Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor of Geosciences and Curator of Paleontology, Texas Tech University. Feduccia's book eloquently reminds us that consensus science is to be shied away from especially when it is used to plead special cases against basic scientific principles. The concept of “lost birds” is particularly intriguing as it defines what birds are and how special science obfuscates the simplicity of evolution. ---David A. Burnham, Associate Researcher, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum. Based on a thorough understanding of the empirical evidence, Feduccia presents a convincing account of avian origins from their putative ancestors. ---Walter J. Bock, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Columbia University and Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History. With candor, clear thinking, humor, and abundant evidence, Alan Feduccia’s Romancing the Birds and Dinosaurs should be mandatory reading for the countless millions who are intrigued by dinosaurs and their relatives, the birds. Feduccia points out the many empirical and logical shortcomings in the stubborn majority view that birds evolved from dinosaurs, an idea now solidly entrenched as dogma in education and popular culture. This new book will be as interesting to those who study human behavior and scientific methods as it will to students of vertebrate evolution. ---David W. Steadman, Curator of Ornithology, Professor of Biology, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida.
Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Don Lessem and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "features interactive fun to make the prehistoric world come to life. Pull tabs, spin wheels, open flaps, and have all sorts of hands-on fun."
Download or read book The Smallest Dinosaurs written by Don Lessem and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these small dinosaurs face-to-face: Little Lesothosaurus was the length of a house cat! Epidendrosaurus could climb into trees like a squirrel! Liaoceratops had body armor and horns-and was only the size of a collie dog! Plus, you'll get to know Compsognathus, Ligabueino, Microraptor, Parvicursor, and Shuvuuia!
Download or read book Dinosaurs written by Thomas R. Holtz and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.
Download or read book The Smallest Stegosaurus written by Lynn Sweat and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is small and sometimes afraid of the other bigger dinosaurs, a young Stegosaurus finds a way to help his family.
Download or read book Stegosaurus written by Elizabeth J. Sandell and published by Bancroft-Sage Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the plant-eating dinosaur who measured between twenty and thirty feet but whose brain was about the size of a walnut shell.
Download or read book The Smallest Dinosaur in the World written by Michael Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dinosaur Alphabet Book written by Jerry Pallotta and published by Charlesbridge. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect way to introduce children to the fascinating world of dinosaurs. Full of interesting facts--did you know some dinosaurs had sharp front teeth while others had no front teeth at all? This alphabet book explores both the known and the not-so-well known dinosaurs. Meet the heterodontosaurus (one of the smallest known to exist), the megalosaurus (the first dinosaur ever discovered), the iguanodon, the ultrasaurus, and more! Once again, Jerry Pallotta and Ralph Masiello have combined their talents to create a unique children's book that will inform and entertain young readers.
Download or read book Pernix written by Dieter Wiesmüller and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1993 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pernix and Viva, tiny dinosaurs struggling to survive in a world of giants, make a secure nest together, but the evil flying reptiles plan to attack them, and Pernix must outwit them.
Download or read book Titanosaur Discovering the World s Largest Dinosaur written by Diego Pol and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History join forces in a thrilling new picture book about the discovery of the Titanosaur -- the biggest, heaviest creature to ever walk Earth! Get ready to meet the Titanosaur -- the biggest, heaviest creature to ever walk the Earth! This book tells the story of the discovery of this new dinosaur from the mouths of the paleontologists who led the dig! From its discovery by a local herder, to the organization and completion of the excavation, this riveting story will have readers on the edge of their seats, and the beautifully painted illustrations will mesmerize. The final spread will open up into a gatefold showing a photograph of the full Titanosaur skeleton on display at the museum. Chock-full of back matter like a glossary and extra information and photographs from the dig, and an inside jacket poster of the Titanosaur, kids of all ages will devour this book.
Download or read book The Smallest Dinosaurs written by Seymour Simon and published by StarWalk Kids Media. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all dinosaurs were giants. This illustrated eBook introduces seven little-known dinosaurs that were as small as a dog, a cat, or even a chicken. Wouldn't it be great to have one of these tiny dinosaurs as a pet? Sorry, you can't have one; they're extinct! But you can read all about them in this fascinating and educational eBook, which features forty-five beautifully illustrated pages about little known, prehistoric reptiles that were the smallest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. Beautifully illustrated pages about little known, prehistoric reptiles that were the smallest dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth.
Download or read book What Dinosaurs Ate written by Tamara Green and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the probable eating habits of various dinosaurs, including carnivores, herbivores, fish-eaters, scavengers, and cannibals, based on the size and shape of their fossilized teeth and the remains found in their stomach cavities.
