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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... stegosaurs - plated ornithischians gone by Cretaceous times except for an isolated group in India . The group did not survive the Ice Age . Ankylosaurs heavily armoured ornithischians - were a successful Cretaceous group and have ...
... stegosaurs - plated ornithischians gone by Cretaceous times except for an isolated group in India . The group did not survive the Ice Age . Ankylosaurs heavily armoured ornithischians - were a successful Cretaceous group and have ...
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... stegosaurs that were most successful in the Jurassic period , and the spiked nodosaurs , and ankylosaurs that expanded in the Cretaceous period . Pteranodon skeleton Pterosaurs , like dinosaurs , evolved from the thecodonts . They ...
... stegosaurs that were most successful in the Jurassic period , and the spiked nodosaurs , and ankylosaurs that expanded in the Cretaceous period . Pteranodon skeleton Pterosaurs , like dinosaurs , evolved from the thecodonts . They ...
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... Stegosaurs Until recently the sub - continent was home to the last remaining stegosaurs . This group of armoured dinosaurs died out over the rest of the world in mid - Cretaceous times . However , several species survived throughout the ...
... Stegosaurs Until recently the sub - continent was home to the last remaining stegosaurs . This group of armoured dinosaurs died out over the rest of the world in mid - Cretaceous times . However , several species survived throughout the ...
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