Jurassic West Second Edition

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253051585

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Jurassic West, Second Edition by John Foster Pdf

The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of any ancient vertebrate ecosystem in the world. Jurassic West, Second Edition tells the story of the life of this ancient world as scientists have so far been able to reconstruct it. Aimed at the general reader, Jurassic West, Second Edition recounts the discovery of many important Late Jurassic dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus, Allosaurus, and Stegosaurus. But dinosaurs compose barely a third of the more than 90 types of vertebrates known from the formation, which include crocodiles and turtles, frogs and salamanders, dinosaurs and mammals, clams and snails, and ginkgoes, ferns, and conifers. Featuring nearly all new illustrations, the second edition of this classic work includes new taxa named since 2007, updates to the naming and classifications of some old taxa, and expanded sections on numerous aspects of Morrison Formation paleontology and geology.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123365103

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Jurassic West by John Foster Pdf

The incredible story of the dinosaurs and other animals that lived in the American West 150 million years ago

Author : Paul D. Brinkman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226074733

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The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush by Paul D. Brinkman Pdf

The so-called “Bone Wars” of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions—which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh—yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors today in museum halls across the country. Reconsidering the fossil speculation, the museum displays, and the media frenzy that ushered dinosaurs into the American public consciousness, Paul Brinkman takes us back to the birth of dinomania, the modern obsession with all things Jurassic. Featuring engaging and colorful personalities and motivations both altruistic and ignoble, The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush shows that these later expeditions were just as foundational—if not more so—to the establishment of paleontology and the budding collections of museums than the more famous Cope and Marsh treks. With adventure, intrigue, and rivalry, this is science at its most swashbuckling.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253011886

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Cambrian Ocean World by John Foster Pdf

This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long history.

Author : Alan L. Titus,Mark A. Loewen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253008961

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At the Top of the Grand Staircase by Alan L. Titus,Mark A. Loewen Pdf

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. Prior fieldwork confirmed the richness of the area, but a major effort begun in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates, and identified five new genera of ceratopsids, two new species of hadrosaur, a probable new genus of hypsilophodontid, new pachycephalosaurs and ankylosaurs, several kinds of theropods (including a new genus of oviraptor and a new tyrannosaur), plus the most complete specimen of a Late Cretaceous therizinosaur ever collected from North America, and much more. The research documented in this book is rewriting our understanding of Late Cretaceous paleobiogeography and dinosaur phyletics. At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah is a major stepping stone toward a total synthesis of the ecology and evolution of the Late Cretaceous ecosystems of western North America.

Author : Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva,Kenneth Carpenter,Eberhard Frey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253012715

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Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico by Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva,Kenneth Carpenter,Eberhard Frey Pdf

This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and last but not least, dinosaurs. In addition, chapters focus on trackways and other trace fossils and on K/P boundary (the Chicxulub crater, beneath the Gulf of Mexico, has been hypothesized as the site of the boloid impact that killed off the dinosaurs). Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico is an up-to-date, informative volume on an area that has not been comprehensively described until now.

Author : David Lewman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525580768

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom: the Junior Novelization (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) by David Lewman Pdf

The newest film in the Jurassic Park franchise releases in theaters on June 22. This novelization retells the whole exciting adventure and features eight pages of full-color scenes from the movie.

Author : Tom Rea
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822988472

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Bone Wars by Tom Rea Pdf

With a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii—named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie—was the most famous dinosaur on the planet. The most complete fossil skeleton unearthed to date, and one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, Diplodocus was displayed in a dozen museums around the world and viewed by millions of people. Bone Wars explains how a fossil unearthed in the badlands of Wyoming in 1899 helped give birth to the public’s fascination with prehistoric beasts. Rea also traces the evolution of scientific thought regarding dinosaurs and reveals the double-crosses and behind-the-scenes deals that marked the early years of bone hunting. With the help of letters found in scattered archives, Tom Rea recreates a remarkable story of hubris, hope, and turn-of-the-century science. He focuses on the roles of five men: Wyoming fossil hunter Bill Reed; paleontologists Jacob Wortman—in charge of the expedition that discovered Carnegie’s dinosaur—and John Bell Hatcher; William Holland, imperious director of the recently founded Carnegie Museum; and Carnegie himself, smitten with the colossal animals after reading a story in the New York Journal and Advertiser. What emerges is the picture of an era reminiscent of today: technology advancing by leaps and bounds; the press happy to sensationalize anything that turned up; huge amounts of capital ending up in the hands of a small number of people; and some devoted individuals placing honest research above personal gain.

Author : Robert T. Bakker
Publisher : Longman Group United Kingdom
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0582004209

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The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker Pdf

Author : Nichole Klein,Kristian Remes,Carole T. Gee,P. Martin Sander
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253013552

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Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs by Nichole Klein,Kristian Remes,Carole T. Gee,P. Martin Sander Pdf

Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials science to animal nutrition and paleontology went in search of the answers to these questions. Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs reports on the latest results from this seemingly disparate group of research fields and integrates them into a coherent theory regarding sauropod gigantism. Covering nutrition, physiology, growth, and skeletal structure and body plans, this volume presents the most up-to-date knowledge about the biology of these enormous dinosaurs.

Author : Steve Behling
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593303382

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Camp Cretaceous, Volume One: The Deluxe Junior Novelization (Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous) by Steve Behling Pdf

Get lost in the dangerous world of dinosaurs with this Deluxe Junior Novelization based on Season One of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous! Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous--the exciting new television series on Netflix--follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime experience at a new adventure camp on the opposite side of Isla Nublar--the home of the Jurassic World theme park. But when dinosaurs wreak havoc across the island, the campers are stranded. Unable to reach the outside world, they'll need to go from strangers to friends to family if they're going to survive. This action-packed novelization expands on the amazing first season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and features eight pages of full color images and a poster!

Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681779300

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King of the Dinosaur Hunters by Lowell Dingus Pdf

Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher whose life is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, whose skeleton has captivated our collective imaginations for over a century. But that wasn’t all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary collecting campaign in Wyoming, Hatcher discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66 million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity’s own evolutionary history.Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years after Hatcher’s monumental “hunts” ended, acclaimed paleontologist Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher’s captivating expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345538987

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Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read “[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller. Praise for Jurassic Park “Wonderful . . . powerful.”—The Washington Post Book World “Frighteningly real . . . compelling . . . It’ll keep you riveted.”—The Detroit News “Full of suspense.”—The New York Times Book Review

Author : Gerhard Maier
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780253000545

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African Dinosaurs Unearthed by Gerhard Maier Pdf

From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted skeleton of this giant, Brachiosaurus, was the largest skeleton of a land animal on exhibit in the world. The dinosaur and other animal fossils found at Tendaguru form one of the cornerstones of our understanding of life in the Mesozoic era. Visited sporadically during the '30s and '40s, Tendaguru again became the site of scientific interest late in the 20th century. African Dinosaurs Unearthed tells the story of driven scientific adventurers working under difficult conditions and often paying the price with their health—and sometimes with their lives. Set against the background of a troubled century, the book reveals how scientific endeavors were carried on through war and political turmoil, and continue into the present day.

Author : David West
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433967047

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Allosaurus and Other Dinosaurs and Reptiles from the Upper Jurassic by David West Pdf

The dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic were larger than ever before, including the first birds and incredible sea creatures. The most amazing dinosaurs and reptiles of this period are also revealed to readers, uncovering fascinating facts about the history along the way. Readers come face-to-face with the most ferocious predator of its time, Allosaurus, as well as other feared hunters and huge herbivores. Using cutting-edge technology and helpful scale renderings, the impressive artwork in this book takes readers into the prehistoric world in a fresh, captivating way.