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 21
... grass . They are more likely to have been meadows of ferns and horsetails . Grasslands , both tropical and temperate , represent a totally novel environment for the dinosaurs . Grass is a notoriously difficult substance to eat . It has ...
... grass . They are more likely to have been meadows of ferns and horsetails . Grasslands , both tropical and temperate , represent a totally novel environment for the dinosaurs . Grass is a notoriously difficult substance to eat . It has ...
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... Grass is a remarkably tough substance , and a grass - eating animal needs a number of extreme specializations to allow it to survive . Grass is full of hard silica and so it causes a great deal of wear to teeth . A grass - eating animal ...
... Grass is a remarkably tough substance , and a grass - eating animal needs a number of extreme specializations to allow it to survive . Grass is full of hard silica and so it causes a great deal of wear to teeth . A grass - eating animal ...
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... grass - grazer . During the Tertiary period many strange grass- land - dwelling sauropods developed to live in the newly evolved pampas , including a number of long - legged , running forms . These were very vulnerable to the swift ...
... grass - grazer . During the Tertiary period many strange grass- land - dwelling sauropods developed to live in the newly evolved pampas , including a number of long - legged , running forms . These were very vulnerable to the swift ...
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