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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... million years ago , and from humble crocodile - like origins , became the most varied and abundant animals on Earth . Nimble , darting , brightly coloured meat - eaters chased lizards through the ferny undergrowth . Big meat - eaters ...
... million years ago , and from humble crocodile - like origins , became the most varied and abundant animals on Earth . Nimble , darting , brightly coloured meat - eaters chased lizards through the ferny undergrowth . Big meat - eaters ...
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... million years ago . This caused a great explosion sending clouds of dust , sixty times the mass of the meteorite itself , up into the atmosphere . These clouds produced a perpetual overcast blotting out the sun for months , or even years ...
... million years ago . This caused a great explosion sending clouds of dust , sixty times the mass of the meteorite itself , up into the atmosphere . These clouds produced a perpetual overcast blotting out the sun for months , or even years ...
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... before these continents split apart . The Urals , the old mountain range between Europe and Asia , demonstrates where these two continents collided 300 million years ago . The movements that tore Pangaea apart are still at work . When a ...
... before these continents split apart . The Urals , the old mountain range between Europe and Asia , demonstrates where these two continents collided 300 million years ago . The movements that tore Pangaea apart are still at work . When a ...
Contents
CONTENTS | 5 |
THE NEW DINOSAURS | 29 |
THE PALAEARCTIC REALM | 42 |
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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