The new dinosaurs: an alternative evolution

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Salem House Publishers, 1988 - Fiction - 120 pages
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Looks at how the dinosaurs might have evolved if they hadn't become extinct, and shows and describes the characteristics of these hypothetical creatures

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Many sf writers have created worlds where dinosaurs still walk the earth, but Dixon's new book pursues the premise in the most realistic way yet. In After Man: A Zoology of the Future (LJ 10/15/81 ... Read full review

Contents

foreword
5
the new tree of life
13
the new dinosaurs
29
Copyright

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About the author (1988)

Writer and book editor Dougal Dixon was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1947. He received a Bachelor of Science in geology from the University of St. Andrews in 1970 and a Master of Science in 1972. He entered the publishing field in 1973 and became a freelancer in 1980. He is an internationally recognized authority on dinosaurs and is one of the most popular science writers in the UK. He has also served as a special advisor for programs and motion pictures about dinosaurs in the United States, Great Britain and Japan. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Journalism by the Educational Press Association of America in 1993, the Helen Roney Sattler Award in 1993, the Children's Book Council 1994 Outstanding Trade Science Book Award, and the Times Educational Supplement Primary Schoolbook Award in 1996.

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TitleThe new dinosaurs: an alternative evolution
AuthorDougal Dixon
Editionillustrated
PublisherSalem House Publishers, 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized3 Sep 2010
ISBN0881623016, 9780881623017
Length120 pages
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Fiction / Fantasy / General
Nature / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
  
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