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1,001 facts about dinosaurs PDF

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BBAACCKKPPAACCKK BBOOOOKKSS ffaaccttss aabboouutt BACKPACK BOOKS FACTS ABOUT dinosAurs SAUROPELTA IGUANODON MEGALOSAURUS TOOTH BACKPACK BOOKS FACTS ABOUT dinosAurs Written by NEIL CLARK and WILLIAM LINDSAY With additional material from Dougal Dixon HYPSILOPHODON TRICERATOPS SKULL STEGOSAURUS DORLING KINDERSLEY London• NewYork • Stuttgart LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE AND DELHI Editor Simon Mugford Designer Dan Green Senior editor Andrew Macintyre Design manager Jane Thomas Category Publisher Sue Grabham Production Nicola Torode With thanks to the original team Editor Bernadette Crowley Arteditors Ann Cannings / Sheilagh Noble Senior editor Susan McKeever Senior art editor Helen Senior Picture research Caroline Brooke First American Edition, 2002 Published in the United States by DKPublishing, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 This edition copyright © 2002 Dorling Kindersley Limited Pockets Dinosaurcopyright © 1995 Dorling Kindersley Ltd Some of the material in this book originally appeared in Pockets Dinosaur, published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, electronic, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley Limited. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN 0-7894-8448-X Color reproduction by Colourscan Printed and bound in Singapore by Star Standard See our complete product line at www.dk.com C ONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO DINOSAURS 8 What are dinosaurs? 10 Discovering dinosaurs 16 Dinosaur world 22 Dinosaur anatomy 32 Dinosaur lifestyles 46 The first dinosaurs 56 Dinosaur extinction 58 SAURISCHIAN DINOSAURS 60 About saurischians 62 Theropods 64 Carnosaurs 66 Ornithomimosaurs 72 Oviraptosaurs 74 Troodontids 76 Dromaeosaurids 78 Other theropods 80 Dinosaurs and birds 82 Sauropodomorphs 84 Prosauropods 86 Sauropods 88 ORNITHISCHIAN DINOSAURS 92 About ornithischians 94 Stegosaurs 96 Ankylosaurs 100 Ornithopods 104 Iguanodonts 106 Hadrosaurs 108 Pachycephalosaurs 114 Ceratopsians 116 REPTILES OF THE SEA AND AIR 122 About sea and air reptiles 124 Reptiles at sea 126 Reptiles in the air 130 DINOSAUR FACTS 134 Early discoveries 136 The dinosaur hunters 138 The world of the dinosaurs 140 Meat-eaters 142 Plant-eaters 144 Armored dinosaurs 146 Zoogeography 148 Dinosaur preservation 150 More dinosaur peers 154 Trace fossils 156 Dinosaur lifestyles 158 Dinosaur controversies 160 Fantasy and fiction 162 Dinosaur records 164 Dinosaur miscellany 166 REFERENCE SECTION 168 Dinosaur discoverers 170 Reptiles classified 174 Dinosaurs classified 176 Records and myths 178 Digging up dinosaurs 180 Resources 182 Pronunciation guide 184 Glossary 186 Index 188 8

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