The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their ExtinctionThe inside story of a scientific heresy that is scandalizing traditional paleontology, told by the unorthodox leader of the dinosaurian heretics and featuring over 200 original black-and-white drawings that show how dinosaurs lived. |
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Page 175
... dinosaurs . Birds - like early beaked dinosaurs — are bipeds when they walk , and their intestinal arrangement allows them easy balance on their hindlegs . In the air , all the force of the wingbeat passes through the upper shoulder ...
... dinosaurs . Birds - like early beaked dinosaurs — are bipeds when they walk , and their intestinal arrangement allows them easy balance on their hindlegs . In the air , all the force of the wingbeat passes through the upper shoulder ...
Page 251
... dinosaur history . Parrot dinosaurs must have been close to the original ancestral stock - they have the ex- tra - long hind legs and short forelimbs so common among primi- tive beaked dinosaurs of all sorts . In parrot dinosaurs we ...
... dinosaur history . Parrot dinosaurs must have been close to the original ancestral stock - they have the ex- tra - long hind legs and short forelimbs so common among primi- tive beaked dinosaurs of all sorts . In parrot dinosaurs we ...
Page 254
... beaked dinosaurs lacked any such wide , bony eye- lids , so all dinosaurs with them could have inherited their armored blinkers from one common ancestor . If all the shield carriers , domeheads , ankylosaurs , horned di- nosaurs , and ...
... beaked dinosaurs lacked any such wide , bony eye- lids , so all dinosaurs with them could have inherited their armored blinkers from one common ancestor . If all the shield carriers , domeheads , ankylosaurs , horned di- nosaurs , and ...
Contents
Brontosaurus in the Great Hall | 15 |
Meditation | 29 |
Dinosaurs Score | 75 |
Copyright | |
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The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs ... Robert T. Bakker No preview available - 1996 |
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adaptations Alamosaurus Allosaurus amphibians ancestor animals ankylosaurs Archaeopteryx armored beaked dinosaurs birds body heat body temperature bones bony brain brontosaurs Camarasaurus carcass Ceratosaurus chewing clan cold-blooded Como Bluff Creek crest croc crocodiles crocodilians Deinonychus Dimetrodon dino Dinosauria Diplodocus Diplodocus's duckbill dinosaurs duckbill's duckbills ecological ecosystem elephant evolution evolutionary evolved extinction feet finback floodplain fossil giant gizzard gizzard stones habitats head herbivores high metabolism hind legs horned dinosaurs joint Jurassic Kazanian Komodo dragon lake land Late Cretaceous layer limbs lizards mammalian mammals meat-eaters Mesozoic modern mouth muscles Museum nearly neck nodosaurs nosaurs nostrils Ornithischia orthodox paleontologists Permian plant-eaters plants pound predator-to-prey ratios predators prey primitive protomammals pterodactyls quarry reptiles Reptilia rock saurs sediment shoulder skeletons skin skull snakes snout socket species spines stegosaurs tail teeth theory tiny tooth tortoises tough Triassic Triceratops tropical turtles tyrannosaurs vertebral warm warm-blooded