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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... gliding creatures . Several gliding dinosaurs evolved from the tree - living coelurosaurs and these are found in the tropical forests in various parts of the world . With so many different varieties of tree present in the tropical ...
... gliding creatures . Several gliding dinosaurs evolved from the tree - living coelurosaurs and these are found in the tropical forests in various parts of the world . With so many different varieties of tree present in the tropical ...
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... gliding lizard - like creatures in Permian and Triassic times . They flew by means of gliding membranes supported by extended ribs reaching out along each side of the body . There was no muscular action involved and the flight was no ...
... gliding lizard - like creatures in Permian and Triassic times . They flew by means of gliding membranes supported by extended ribs reaching out along each side of the body . There was no muscular action involved and the flight was no ...
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... gliding arbrosaur , the flurrit . Most arbrosaurs are able to leap great distances from branch to branch and from tree to tree , in order to look for more prey . The flurrit evolved its gliding habit from these beginnings . Flaps of ...
... gliding arbrosaur , the flurrit . Most arbrosaurs are able to leap great distances from branch to branch and from tree to tree , in order to look for more prey . The flurrit evolved its gliding habit from these beginnings . Flaps of ...
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