The Resource Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew, John Pickrell
Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew, John Pickrell
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The item Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew, John Pickrell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- We're in a golden age of discovery - and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined. From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new discoveries and meets the fossil hunters leading the charge. Discover the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron, an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex, the Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat, and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it was heavier than two commercial jet airliners. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? Did they all have feathers? And what do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781742234731
- Label
- Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew
- Title
- Weird dinosaurs
- Title remainder
- the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew
- Statement of responsibility
- John Pickrell
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- We're in a golden age of discovery - and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined. From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new discoveries and meets the fossil hunters leading the charge. Discover the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron, an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex, the Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat, and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it was heavier than two commercial jet airliners. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? Did they all have feathers? And what do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pickrell, John
- Dewey number
- 567.91
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dinosaurs
- Paleontology
- Animals, Fossil
- Palaeontological excavations
- Label
- Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew, John Pickrell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000058579744
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781742234731
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, maps, portrait
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958058002
- Label
- Weird dinosaurs : the strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew, John Pickrell
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000058579744
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xii, 242 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781742234731
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- colour illustrations, maps, portrait
- System control number
- (OCoLC)958058002
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