The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative EvolutionEvolution run amok. Dixon's imaginary animals show the imagination of Gary Larson, better drafting skills, but a very ponderous sense of humor. A lushly (color) illustrated unnatural history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... Cretaceous periods . For over 180 million years they were the most successful life form on the planet . And then they all disappeared . The Great Extinction , as their disappearance has come to be known , befell the dinosaurs at the end ...
... Cretaceous periods . For over 180 million years they were the most successful life form on the planet . And then they all disappeared . The Great Extinction , as their disappearance has come to be known , befell the dinosaurs at the end ...
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... Cretaceous period may well have come from the dusty debris of a gigantic meteorite impact . Further chemical analysis of these rocks gives added support to the theory . There is little calcium carbonate - the chemical from which shells ...
... Cretaceous period may well have come from the dusty debris of a gigantic meteorite impact . Further chemical analysis of these rocks gives added support to the theory . There is little calcium carbonate - the chemical from which shells ...
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... Cretaceous period , and the dinosaurs that are alive today are descended from the most vigorous of the late Cretaceous groups . The lightly built meat - eating saurischians , or ' coelurosaurs ' , that evolved from the coelophysids have ...
... Cretaceous period , and the dinosaurs that are alive today are descended from the most vigorous of the late Cretaceous groups . The lightly built meat - eating saurischians , or ' coelurosaurs ' , that evolved from the coelophysids have ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 5 |
THE NEW DINOSAURS | 29 |
THE PALAEARCTIC REALM | 42 |
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adapted ammonites ancestors animals ankylosaurs arbrosaurs archosaurs areas armour Australasian continent birds and pterosaurs body burrowing climate coelophysids coelurosaurs coneater coniferous forest continental crackbeak creatures crested Cretaceous period Deciduous developed dinosaurs Earth elasmosaurs environment Ethiopian realm evolution evolved exist extinction feed fish forelimbs forms gliding Gondwana grass grasslands grazing habitats hadrosaurs herds hind legs huge hunting hypsilophodonts iguanodonts insects island jaws Jurassic kilometres late Cretaceous Laurasia lightly built live lost world mammals meat-eaters megalosaur Mesozoic metres million years ago mixed woodland mountain range move Nearctic Nearctic continent Nearctic realm neck Neotropical northern ocean Oriental realm Palaearctic Palaearctic realm Pangaea plant-eating plants plesiosaurs pliosaur predators prey pterosaurs region reptiles river saurischians sauropods saurornithoids shape species sprintosaurs stegosaurs supercontinent surface survive swamp tail teeth Tertiary titanosaur tree-living trees Triassic tropical forest Tropical rainforest tundra warm-blooded wings zoogeographic realms