Weird dinosaurs: the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew
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New York : Columbia University Press, [2017].
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xv, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
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"A tour de force...highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago."— Sydney Morning Herald From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. "This history of the discovery of some of the most outlandish creatures that ever lived, and the excitement of paleontological research, will be sure to both entertain and instruct."—Spencer Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook , Sixth Edition "Fascinating.... Readers learn of beautiful opalised dinosaur bones from Australia and a crested dinosaur found approximately 13,000 feet up Antarctica's Mt. Kirkpatrick, demonstrating that dinosaurs were widely distributed across the globe."— Publishers Weekly
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Date of publication: April 2017 (Publisher's website)
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"First published in Australia by NewSouth, an imprint of UNSW Press Ltd [2016]"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Pickrell, J. (2017). Weird dinosaurs: the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew. New York, Columbia University Press.

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Pickrell, John. 2017. Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew. New York, Columbia University Press.

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Pickrell, John, Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew. New York, Columbia University Press, 2017.

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Pickrell, John. Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew. New York, Columbia University Press, 2017.

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