Product Description
Bigger and Better, Updated and ExpandedWe live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—on average, we find one new dinosaur species perweek. The most fascinating among them take their place in this updated edition ofDinosaurs—The Grand Tour; fromAardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, toZuniceratops, who boasted a deadly pair of horns. Here, you’ll find everything worth knowing about every dinosaur worth knowing—more than 300 in all, including:
- AmphibiousHalszkaraptorlooks like no other dinosaur we’ve found—with a head and body the size of a duck’s, sharp claws . . . and a swanlike neck.
- Longer than a blue whale and three times taller than a giraffe,Patagotitanis a newly discovered contender for “biggest dinosaur ever.â€
- The speedy little feathered predatorStenonychosauruswas an anatomical marvel, with retractable claws, asymmetrical ears for advanced hearing, incredible night vision, and a huge brain.
- Oviraptor—whose name means “egg thief “—doesn’t deserve its bad rap. This specimen from 1923 is now proven to have been sitting by its own eggs—not stealing another’s.
- Sinornithosaurusprove that dinosaurs shed their skin the same way that humans do, rather than sloughing it off all at once like a snake.
