Jurassic West Second Edition

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : 54,7 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 : 46,5 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 : 52,8 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 : Kenneth Carpenter
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253027955

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Horns and Beaks by Kenneth Carpenter Pdf

Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon, one of the first dinosaurs ever discovered and analyzed, and perhaps the most common and best-documented group, the hadrosaurs or "duckbilled dinosaurs." The Ceratopsians include Triceratops, known for its distinctive three-horned skull and protective collar. Contributors are Michael K. Brett-Surman, Kathleen Brill, Kenneth Carpenter, Benjamin S. Creisler, Tony DiCroce, Andrew A. Farke, Peter M. Galton, David Gilpin, Thomas M. Lehman, Nate L. Murphy, Christopher J. Ott, Gregory S. Paul, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, Albert Prieto-Marquez, Bruce Rothschild, José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca, Darren H. Tanke, Mark Thompson, David Trexler, and Jonathan R. Wagner.

Author : Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva,Kenneth Carpenter,Eberhard Frey
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Alan L. Titus,Mark A. Loewen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Robert T. Bakker
Publisher : Longman Group United Kingdom
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0582004209

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The Dinosaur Heresies by Robert T. Bakker Pdf

Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,8 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 : Steve Behling
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Nichole Klein,Kristian Remes,Carole T. Gee,P. Martin Sander
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Keiron Pim
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781615195190

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Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour, Second Edition by Keiron Pim Pdf

We live in a golden age of archaeological discovery—the perfect time to dig into the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two‐ and four‐legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops, who boasted a deadly pair of horns, Dinosaurs—The Grand Tour, Second Edition details everything worth knowing about more than 300 dinosaurs. The important discoveries and gory details touch on topics from geology, anatomy, and evolution to astronomy and even Native American and Chinese myth. Fascinating facts abound: Giganotosaurus was longer, two tons heavier, and had bigger jaws than T. Rex. The poison‐spitting Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park wasn’t actually venomous at all. Because of its bizarre single‐clawed hands, scientists now believe Mononykus was a prehistoric ancestor of the anteater! Illustrations on virtually every page, true to the latest findings, bring these prehistoric creatures to life in all their razor‐sharp, long‐necked, spiny, scaly glory.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : David Lewman
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525580836

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Dinosaur Survival Guide (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) by David Lewman Pdf

Outlines the events on Isla Nublar since the destruction of the Jurassic World amusement park, profiling the dinosaurs that live on the island and the human crew members of Jurassic World.

Author : Insight Kids
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781647226954

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Jurassic World: The Very Hungry Dinosaur by Insight Kids Pdf

Share the Jurassic World franchise with your littlest ones in this interactive board book featuring the park’s hungriest dinosaurs! Follow the adventures of Jurassic World’s dinos as they eat their way across the island. The story begins with a very hungry herbivore gleefully chomping on foliage. Soon, the other dinos escape containment and playfully rampage through the park eating all manner of strange things. SHARED MEMORIES: Parents, grandparents, and grown-ups can introduce kids to the fascinating inhabitants of the films. INTERACTIVE LEARNING: Little ones will love returning again and again to this playful book that teaches them to count through fun and engaging situations. STURDY BOARD BOOK: Sturdy board book pages—including the bite taken out of the corner!—will stand up to repeated readings and curious hands and mouths. BUILD LANGUAGE AND FINE MOTOR SKILLS: Simple prompts and picture clues reinforce early concept learning and language structure. GREAT GIFT: Be the coolest gift-giver in the room at baby showers, gender reveals, and birthday parties!