Dinosaurs: The TextbookThis text is intended for a one-quarter or one-semester introductory course on dinosaurs. Dinosaurs: The Textbook is a monument to our present understanding of these wonderful creatures. It is a book that will take the student on a journey through nearly every aspect of dinosaur biology, geology, and the history of their discovery. It is a text that presents facts together with current ideas, notions, and controversies. Dr. Lucas presents dinosaurs as successful, living creatures that were merely different in appearance from animals living today. Dr. Lucas has written a comprehensive book that is easily read and understood by students with little scientific background - a book that teaches students not only how to use scientific methods, but how to synthesize data to create their own ideas. In contrast with many dinosaur books from the past, Dr. Lucas, although indicating his own views, allows students the opportunity to think for themselves. |
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age of dinosaurs Allosaurus ancestors animals ankle ankylosaurs Apatosaurus Archaeopteryx archosaurs armor Asia behavior bipedal birds body bones box figure Brachiosaurus camarasaurids carnosaurs ceratopsians ceratosaurs Chapter clade cladistic coelurosaurs complete skeletons coprolites dental battery dinosaur eggs dinosaur extinction dinosaur footprints dinosaur fossils dinosaur skeletons Dinosauria diplodocids discoveries dorsal Early Cretaceous Early Jurassic ectotherms endotherms evidence evolution evolutionary novelties fenestra forelimbs fossil record frill gastroliths geologic Greek group of dinosaurs hadrosaurids heterodontosaurids hind limbs Huayangosaurus hypsilophodontids ideas about dinosaurs Iguanodon iguanodontids known lambeosaurines Late Cretaceous Late Jurassic Late Triassic living lizard lower jaw mammals Marsh Mesozoic metabolism meters long Middle Jurassic million years ago nodosaurids numerical ages ornithischians ornithopods pachycephalosaurs paleontologists pelvis phylogeny plant-eating posture primitive prosauropods Protoceratops Psittacosaurus relatively reptiles rocks sauropods Scutellosaurus sedimentary skull roof speed Stegosaurus structure tail taxa teeth tetanuran thecodonts theropods thyreophorans tooth trackways Triceratops types of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus Upper Cretaceous vegetation vertebrates