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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Page 11
... body in a warm - blooded life style . The huge bulk of the body would probably have remained at a fairly constant temperature anyway without any complex warm - blooded system . However , sections cut through fossils of the bones of ...
... body in a warm - blooded life style . The huge bulk of the body would probably have remained at a fairly constant temperature anyway without any complex warm - blooded system . However , sections cut through fossils of the bones of ...
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... body became perfectly adapted for flight . The weight of a flying creature must be kept to a minimum , and the bones were hollow , dispensing with unwanted mass . The body must be rigid , to cope with the fantastic stresses put upon it ...
... body became perfectly adapted for flight . The weight of a flying creature must be kept to a minimum , and the bones were hollow , dispensing with unwanted mass . The body must be rigid , to cope with the fantastic stresses put upon it ...
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... body's movement through the air . archipelago A group of islands , usually in the form of a chain . atrophy Of an organ , to wither away through disuse . biped An animal that walks on two legs . brachiate To swing along tree branches ...
... body's movement through the air . archipelago A group of islands , usually in the form of a chain . atrophy Of an organ , to wither away through disuse . biped An animal that walks on two legs . brachiate To swing along tree branches ...
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