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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... lost worlds ' or primeval struggles . As a zoologist I nearly always find myself disappointed by other people's ... world as it is , and enjoy how it might have been . By making a single , simple alteration in the earth's prehistory ...
... lost worlds ' or primeval struggles . As a zoologist I nearly always find myself disappointed by other people's ... world as it is , and enjoy how it might have been . By making a single , simple alteration in the earth's prehistory ...
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... world on the inside of the shell , the lost world is always of very small area . This is necessary from a dramatic point of view , to explain the region's lack of discovery . However , it also means that the area could not possibly be ...
... world on the inside of the shell , the lost world is always of very small area . This is necessary from a dramatic point of view , to explain the region's lack of discovery . However , it also means that the area could not possibly be ...
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... lost worlds of fiction is the presence of human beings . In both JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH and THE LOST WORLD there are examples of primitive humans living alongside the dinosaurs , presumably the result of an even later ...
... lost worlds of fiction is the presence of human beings . In both JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH and THE LOST WORLD there are examples of primitive humans living alongside the dinosaurs , presumably the result of an even later ...
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