Through dramatic graphics and age-appropriate text, this authoritative volume charts the discovery of all the main types of dinosaurs and reveals the latest details on how these creatures most likely looked, behaved, defended themselves, found food, cared for their young, and interacted. Stunning murals, based on scientific evidence, depict various dinosaurs in their habitats--beautifully complementing the color photographs, paintings, charts, and maps. Some 53 major types of dinosaurs are described, representing a wide range of physical structures, sizes, and lifestyles.The book presents recent discoveries and current scientific thought--including the dinosaur-bird connection, profiles of feathered dinosaurs, and theories on dinosaur extinction. Readers also see how today' s paleontologists obtain evidence, piece together clues, and continue to reconstruct life in prehistoric times.

    dinosaur stamps. The result was a popular stamp series, released in July 1997, featuring fifteen dinosaurs and other creatures that lived in two North American locations (now Colorado and Montana) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous eras.Children all over the world are fascinated by dinosaurs. Latin scientific terms and names roll off their tongues with an ease that most adults envy. James Gurney: The World of Dinosaurs is an introduction to dinosaurs found in North America. Gurney's playful yet technically accurate paintings portray some familiar dinosaurs as well as some surprising cohabitants of their eras, including Jurassic crocodiles, lizards, and the flying reptiles: pterosaurs! In addition to a fact-filled spread on the creature pictured on each stamp, The World of Dinosaurs includes illustrated sections on the making of the dinosaur stamps, a dinosaur "hot spots" map of North America, dinosaur stamps from around the world, and a summary of the unfolding research into the origins and fate of the dinosaurs and the world they ruled for millions of years.The book closes with a spectacular full-color gatefold of the original Gurney paintings used to produce the stamp series. The lively text by Smithsonian paleontologist Michael Brett-Surman, Ph.D. and his colleague from the University of Maryland, Dr. Thomas Holtz, takes us through the endlessly fascinating world of dinosaurs.

    Then in 1980, a radical theory was proposed: 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet as big as Mt. Everest, traveling at 100,000 miles per hour, struck the earth, throwing up a dust cloud that darkened the sky, caused the temperature to plummet, and killed the dinosaurs and 70 percent of all other species. Night Comes to the Cretaceous is the first comprehensive and objective account of how this fantastic theory changed the course of science. The author, Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History tells the dramatic story of how Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son Walter stumbled onto evidence suggesting that a single random event caused the extinction of the dinosaurs - a claim many scientists found unbelievable. After years of bitter debate and intense research, an astonishing discovery was made - an immense impact crater buried deep in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico that was identified as Ground Zero. The unbelievable appeared to be true.

    He hijacks the ride to search for the iguanodon. Will and Marissa's tour becomes a dangerous countdown to extinction as they race to find the iguanodon before a giant meteor hits the earth!Recreates Disney's thrilling new ride in the Animal Kingdom's Dinoland.

    Through the lens of this book we can look backward in time to view a landscape millions of years old.

    'Tick-Tock' takes us on a counting journey from counting heartbeats to measuring time with clocks and calendars.

    Was it a Sauropods worst nightmare? Find out if you dare!Why was the dinosaur from the Antarctic nicknamed Elvisaurus? Find out what may have happened to the hornless horned dinosaur, where the first feathered dinosaur came from, and who the new heavyweight dinosaur champion of the world is!From Andesaurus to Utahraptor, The Newest and Coolest Dinosaurs collects all the recent discoveries and offers up all the dino data craved by budding paleontologists.