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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... armour that it inherited from its ankylosaur ancestor , top . The armour has become a continuous waterproof covering above . Desert conditions are so harsh that very few animals can survive in them . Compared with the equatorial forest ...
... armour that it inherited from its ankylosaur ancestor , top . The armour has become a continuous waterproof covering above . Desert conditions are so harsh that very few animals can survive in them . Compared with the equatorial forest ...
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... armour , consisting of horn - covered bone , evolved as a defensive mechanism . In the taranter it has become more important as a means of conserving moisture . Hollows inside the skull are lined with damp membranes that moisten the ...
... armour , consisting of horn - covered bone , evolved as a defensive mechanism . In the taranter it has become more important as a means of conserving moisture . Hollows inside the skull are lined with damp membranes that moisten the ...
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... armour protects it from predators during this period . The slow - moving gourmand is protected from other meat - eaters by a back armour of bony plates sheathed in horn . Its scavenging life style is very different from that of its ...
... armour protects it from predators during this period . The slow - moving gourmand is protected from other meat - eaters by a back armour of bony plates sheathed in horn . Its scavenging life style is very different from that of its ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 5 |
THE NEW DINOSAURS | 29 |
THE PALAEARCTIC REALM | 42 |
Copyright | |
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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