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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... pliosaurs , the dolphin - like ichthyosaurs , the sea- lizard mosasaurs , and all the turtles - were not dinosaurs . Nor were the flying reptiles - the pterosaurs - nor the freshwater swimmers , the crocodiles - although these represent ...
... pliosaurs , the dolphin - like ichthyosaurs , the sea- lizard mosasaurs , and all the turtles - were not dinosaurs . Nor were the flying reptiles - the pterosaurs - nor the freshwater swimmers , the crocodiles - although these represent ...
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... pliosaurs . RHAMPHORHYNCHID PTEROSAURS PTERODACTYL PTEROSAURS SIFT page 63 HARRIDAN page 77 PARASO page 86 SHORERUNNER page 99 SOAR page 102 PLUNGER page 103 KLOON page 96 WANDLE page 97 Tree - living and MESOSUCHIAN CROCODILES ...
... pliosaurs . RHAMPHORHYNCHID PTEROSAURS PTERODACTYL PTEROSAURS SIFT page 63 HARRIDAN page 77 PARASO page 86 SHORERUNNER page 99 SOAR page 102 PLUNGER page 103 KLOON page 96 WANDLE page 97 Tree - living and MESOSUCHIAN CROCODILES ...
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... pliosaur and , like its relatives , it feeds on ammonites . This is the only type , however , that has the ability to attack and kill the largest ammonite of the oceans . It hunts in the warm placid waters of the doldrums , where its ...
... pliosaur and , like its relatives , it feeds on ammonites . This is the only type , however , that has the ability to attack and kill the largest ammonite of the oceans . It hunts in the warm placid waters of the doldrums , where its ...
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