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Eyewitness Eyewitness DINOSAUR E y e are you ready w i t n To become a e s s professional Expert files bonehead? D I N O S A Find out about famous dinosaur T U h hunters, and discover what it’s like R e D to work on a real-life dig E ig X P E Join palaeontologist Luis Chiappe as he R Th T e relives the moment he unearthed a giant E nesting site in South America – complete f x I p l e with fossilized eggs and baby dinosaurs E rt S s Sharpen your dino-finding skills A c with our cool activities, then get t i v started on your very own log book i t i e s “To find The big L fossils you have To o g go where no-one’s B o o been before.” k Paul Sereno, dinosaur hunter The experTs’ guide To hands-on Picture CreditsFront: Corbis: Louie Psihoyos. Back: courtesy Luis Chiappe: ca; dinosaur hunTing Corbis: Sygma/Bernard Bisson cb; Getty Images: Science Faction/Roger Ressmeyer b. Eyewitness DINOSAUR Expert Files Eyewitness DINOSAUR Expert Files DK Publishing, Inc. Contents LONDON, NEW YORK, MELBOURNE, MUNICH, AND DELHI Consultant Professor Michael Benton Senior Editor Jayne Miller 6 Project Editors Sarah Davis, Claire Ellerton Senior Art Editors Joanne Little, David Ball Meet the experts Art Editors Owen Peyton Jones, Peter Radcliffe, Susan St.Louis, Gemma Thompson 8 Paper Engineer Alison Gardner Managing Editor Camilla Hallinan Valley of the eggs Art Director Martin Wilson Publishing Manager Sunita Gahir 16 Category Publisher Andrea Pinnington Types of expert Picture Research Fran Vargo DK Picture Library Rose Hossidge, Claire Bowers Production Controller Angela Graef 20 DTP Designers Ronaldo Julien, Andy Hilliard Reconstruction Jacket Designer Polly Appleton Jacket Copywriter John Searcy Eyewitness Experts concept Caroline Buckingham 22 Hall of fame First published in the United States in 2007 by DK Publishing Limited, 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 07 08 09 10 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ED509 – 07/07 26 Copyright © 2007 Dorling Kindersley Limited Activities All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this publication may be 28 reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, Which expert are you? photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. 30 Living cousins A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 32 ISBN: 978–0–7566–3135–2 Who am I? Color reproduction by Colourscan, Singapore Printed and bound by Toppan Printing Co. (Shenzhen) Ltd, China Discover more at www.dk.com 50 34 Pack manual Dino diets 52 36 Expert reads Name game 54 38 Plotting the past Name it! 56 Multimedia 57 40 Makeasaurus Experts’ log 42 At the museum 62 44 Index In the field 64 46 Activity answers Research and Acknowledgments 48 Scrapbook meet the experts e x pert Paleontologist e profi l name: LUIS CHIAPPE nationality: ArgEntInIAn liVeS:US Dr Luis Chiappe has had a love of the outdoors since he was a child, prompted by regular weekend camping trips in the wild with his family. He is now the curator and director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, which houses one of the largest fossil collections in the world. His main interest is researching the link between dinosaurs and their bird descendants. In 1997, he was on a dig in Patagonia in search of further clues to the connection between the two when he and fellow dinosaur experts Lowell Dingus and Rodolfo Coria discovered the largest collection of dinosaur nests and eggs in the world. Luis and his team of dedicated experts returned seven times over the following years to excavate further, patiently working through extreme heat, cold, and floods and living in difficult conditions to reveal a true treasure trove of finds. Luis has worked on and directed many dinosaur digs in Argentina, North America, and Central Asia over the years. Recently, he has helped to recover the skeleton of a tyrannosaurus rex in Montana.