How It Works-Book Of Dinosaurs
Head Crocodile-like skull with small, high nostrils – ideal for breathing with a partially submerged snout Sail Anchored by a se ...
Majungasaurus (“Mah-JUNG-a-SORE-uss”) has a bit of a bad-lizard reputation; telltale tooth marks on Majungasaurus bones, found o ...
© Corbis; A lamy; Science Photo Librar y The discover y of Deinonychus (“Dee-NON-i-KUSS”) in 1964 overhauled our perception of d ...
DINOSAURS’ LEGACY BOOK OF DINOSAURS 106 Death of the dinosaurs What extinction event killed the dinosaurs? 108 What are fossils? ...
113 Fossil formation 108 What are fossils? © Thinkstock 118 Sauropods explained 112 Finding fossils © Thinkstock © Thinkstock © ...
It is believed that there have been at least fi ve mass extinctions in the last 540 million years, the most famous being the one ...
The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period followed four others. The fi rst signalled the end of the Ordovician per ...
Obliterating the traditional perception of the origins and evolution of life on Earth, fossils grant us unique snapshots of what ...
Dependent on climate and ground conditions, deceased animals can be fossilised in many ways Typ e s of fossilisation The origin ...
A Europasaurus fossil is examined be specifi c to the env ironmental conditions in which it lived – and these in themselves are ...
The period in Earth’s histor y when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up in to the northern Laurasia and southern Gondwana, the J ...
Ever since Mary Anning first began piecing together the fossils of Jurassic beasts in the early nineteenth century, scientists h ...
Though ground-penetrating radar now helps archaeologists identify hidden underground remains, modern palaeontologists still ofte ...
Identifying rock layers The sedimentary layer of rock most often containing fossils is deep below the ground, so canyons and rav ...
What do you need for a fossil dig? Studying the surroundings Dig-team members have to carefully record the arrangement and surro ...
01 The word ‘dinosaur’ means terrible lizard The word ‘dinosaur’ was fi rst used in 1841 by biologist Sir Richard Owen. It is fr ...
07 Triceratops had up to 800 teeth Triceratops might be known for their horns, but these icons of the Cretaceous period had anot ...
12 Sauropods did not live in water Early ideas about how sauropods like Diplodocus lived portrayed them walking underwater like ...
Nests & eggs 28 All dinosaurs laid eggs Dinosaurs all reproduced by laying eggs like modern-day birds, and some of the hatch ...
Among the T-rex’s favourite prey were the Ceratopsians, such as Triceratops HeadIt measured 1.5m (4.9ft) long, and had eye and n ...
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