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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... environment , and is particularly well suited to live in a mountain environment , will not survive long if introduced into a swamp region - and vice versa . A mountain animal's tolerance of high altitudes would be useless in an area of ...
... environment , and is particularly well suited to live in a mountain environment , will not survive long if introduced into a swamp region - and vice versa . A mountain animal's tolerance of high altitudes would be useless in an area of ...
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... environment , and most of the plant - eating creatures found here are cold - blooded . The slow metabolism of such herbivorous animals as tortoises and plant - eating lizards enables them to gorge themselves when the plants are ...
... environment , and most of the plant - eating creatures found here are cold - blooded . The slow metabolism of such herbivorous animals as tortoises and plant - eating lizards enables them to gorge themselves when the plants are ...
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... environment and to the other organisms that live there . ecosystem An entire community of organisms interacting with one another and their environment . emergent A particularly large tree in the tropical forest that protrudes beyond the ...
... environment and to the other organisms that live there . ecosystem An entire community of organisms interacting with one another and their environment . emergent A particularly large tree in the tropical forest that protrudes beyond 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