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008			180917s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780231186025 _qcloth : alk. paper
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050		4	_aQE705 .A1 _bP768 2019
100	1		_aProthero, Donald R.,
245	1	4	_aThe story of the dinosaurs in 25 discoveries : _bamazing fossils and the people who found them / _cDonald R. Prothero.
263			_a1904.
264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c[2019]
300			_a488 p. ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aI. In the beginning. Megalosaurus: the "great lizard," the "Scrotum Humanum," and the first named dinosaur -- Iguanodon: Fideon Mantall, Louis Dollo, and the first dinosaur fauna -- Cetiosaurus: the "whale lizard," Richard Owen, and the first known sauropod -- Harrosaurus: Joseph Leidy and the first American dinosaur -- Eoraptor: the first dinosaurs -- II. The long-necked giants: the sauropods. Plateosaurus: ancestors of the giants -- Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus: Marsh, Cope, and the Bone Wars -- Diplodocus: the real "Jurassic Park" and Carnegie's gift -- Giraffatitan: the tallest of the tall, and the Tendaguru -- Patagotitan: who's the biggest of them all? -- III. Red in tooth and claw: the theropods. Coelophysis: the little dinosaur of ghost ranch -- Cryolophosaurus: denizen of the polar darkness -- Spinosaurus: lost giants of Egypt -- Tyrannosaurus: king of the tyrant reptiles -- Giganotosaurus: biggest predator of all? -- Deinocheirus: "terrible hands" lead to big surprises -- Velociraptor: "terrible claws" and the dinosaur renaissance -- Sinosauropteryx: feathered dinosaurs and the origin of birds -- IV. Horns and spikes and armor and duck beaks: the ornithischians. Heterodontosaurus: the origin of ornithischians -- Stegosaurus: the "roofed lizard' and the thagomizer -- Ankylosaurus: armored dinosaurs and "Mr. Bones" -- Corythosaurus: duckbills with headgear -- Stegoceras: the "unicorn dinosaur" and the boneheads -- Protoceratorps: the griffin legends and the origin of the horned dinosaurs -- Triceratops: the last of the dinosaurs.
520			_aToday, any kid can rattle off the names of dozens of dinosaurs. But it took centuries of scientific effort-and a lot of luck-to discover and establish the diversity of dinosaur species we now know. How did we learn that Triceratops had three horns? Why don't many paleontologists consider Brontosaurus a valid species? What convinced scientists that modern birds are relatives of ancient Velociraptor? In The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the intrepid researchers who unearthed them. In twenty-five vivid vignettes, he weaves together dramatic tales of dinosaur discoveries with what modern science now knows about the species to which they belong. Prothero takes us from eighteenth-century sightings of colossal bones taken for biblical giants through recent discoveries of enormous predators even larger than Tyrannosaurus. He recounts the escapades of the larger-than-life personalities who made modern paleontology, including scientific rivalries like the nineteenth-century "Bone Wars." Prothero also details how to draw the boundaries between species and explores debates such as whether dinosaurs had feathers, explaining the findings that settled them or keep them going. Throughout, he offers a clear and rigorous look at what paleontologists consider sound interpretation of evidence. An essential read for any dinosaur lover, this book teaches us to see an ancient world ruled by giant majestic creatures anew.
650		0	_aPaleontology _xHistory.
650		0	_aPaleontologists.
650		0	_aDinosaurs. _92354
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