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 12
... creatures have flourished , expanded and diversified with the same vigour as in the previous 150 million years ... creatures . By the end of the Cretaceous they were still small insectivorous creatures . They have had no opportunity to ...
... creatures have flourished , expanded and diversified with the same vigour as in the previous 150 million years ... creatures . By the end of the Cretaceous they were still small insectivorous creatures . They have had no opportunity to ...
Page 27
... creatures in Permian and Triassic times . They flew by means of gliding membranes supported by extended ribs ... creatures with a wingspan of a few centimetres that fed on insects , to huge creatures with wingspans of 12 metres ( 40 ft ) ...
... creatures in Permian and Triassic times . They flew by means of gliding membranes supported by extended ribs ... creatures with a wingspan of a few centimetres that fed on insects , to huge creatures with wingspans of 12 metres ( 40 ft ) ...
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... creatures that are able to fly over the intervening ocean areas . Very often these winged creatures give up their powers of flight and take up a ground - dwelling existence , eating the plants and the insects on an island that is free ...
... creatures that are able to fly over the intervening ocean areas . Very often these winged creatures give up their powers of flight and take up a ground - dwelling existence , eating the plants and the insects on an island that is free ...
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