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 14
... crested lambeosaurines and the crestless hadrosaurines . Stegoceras skeleton Pachycephalosaurs evolved and expanded in the late Cretaceous period . They were the boneheads , and resembled the other two - footed plant- eaters but for the ...
... crested lambeosaurines and the crestless hadrosaurines . Stegoceras skeleton Pachycephalosaurs evolved and expanded in the late Cretaceous period . They were the boneheads , and resembled the other two - footed plant- eaters but for the ...
Page 46
... crested hadrosaurs living in this corner of the continent , but later the crested forms migrated here from further east- part of the great spread of the hadrosaurs over the northern continents . The bricket lives in small herds in the ...
... crested hadrosaurs living in this corner of the continent , but later the crested forms migrated here from further east- part of the great spread of the hadrosaurs over the northern continents . The bricket lives in small herds in the ...
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... crested , and the non - crested . The crested sprintosaurs tend to inhabit the western high prairies , grazing the short grasses and undergrowth of prickly pear cactus in the dry shadow of the mountains . In the long evenings of the ...
... crested , and the non - crested . The crested sprintosaurs tend to inhabit the western high prairies , grazing the short grasses and undergrowth of prickly pear cactus in the dry shadow of the mountains . In the long evenings of the ...
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