Digging DinosaursThe personal story of a single dig and how it changed the current view of dinosaurs, this paints a vivid picture of the dinosaurs' day-to-day lives. Illustrated. |
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... dinosaurs when these fossils were scarce everywhere else . As suc- ceeding years yielded no other major finds of baby dinosaurs ... juvenile dinosaurs . Perhaps the bones of the young were not as sturdy and thus did not become fossils as ...
... dinosaurs when these fossils were scarce everywhere else . As suc- ceeding years yielded no other major finds of baby dinosaurs ... juvenile dinosaurs . Perhaps the bones of the young were not as sturdy and thus did not become fossils as ...
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... fossils of juvenile dinosaurs have been reported . With the great number of experienced collectors who have examined these beds , surely some eggs and many remains of juveniles would have been reported if the dinosaurs 46 DIGGING DINOSAURS.
... fossils of juvenile dinosaurs have been reported . With the great number of experienced collectors who have examined these beds , surely some eggs and many remains of juveniles would have been reported if the dinosaurs 46 DIGGING DINOSAURS.
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... fossils of juvenile dinosaurs and then set about to see where I might find them . I had stumbled on a predominance of such fossils in the Bear Paw shale , and it was that predominance that gave me the idea of looking for babies in the ...
... fossils of juvenile dinosaurs and then set about to see where I might find them . I had stumbled on a predominance of such fossils in the Bear Paw shale , and it was that predominance that gave me the idea of looking for babies in the ...
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Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs Gorma Horner,John R. Horner No preview available - 1990 |
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acid adult animals baby bones baby dinosaurs Bear Paw shale big bone bed birds Bob Makela bone bed caliche called camp Camposaur carnivores ceratopsians Choteau collection creatures crew deposits digging dinosaur bones dinosaur eggs dinosaur fossils dinosaurs dirt discoveries duckbills egg clutches Egg Gulch Egg Mountain eggshell fragments embryos endotherms evidence femur fossil bones fossils geological green mudstone hadrosaurs hatched herbivores herd hill Horner hypsilophodontids Jill Peterson Judith River formation juvenile dinosaurs kind of dinosaur lake lambeosaurs land layers lizards maiasaurs mammals Marion Brandvold Medicine formation metabolism miles million years ago Montana mudstone Museum nose ornithischians Orodromeus paleontologists Peebles ranch perhaps Phil Currie preserved Princeton reptiles Ricqlès rock Rockies saurischian sauropods season sediments skeletons skull species spot streams summer surface teepees teeth temperature Troodon upper coastal plain vertebrate paleontology walking warmblooded Willow Creek anticline young dinosaurs