Dinosaurs Rediscovered: New Findings which are Revolutionizing Dinosaur ScienceFrom dinosaurs smaller than chickens to the biggest beasts ever to walk the Earth, here is the exciting story of recent discoveries about dinosaurs and the scientists who made them. Informal and informative.--The Boston Globe. Lessem wrote and hosted a recent Nova series on dinosaurs. Photos and drawings. |
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... Jensen . From the age of ten , on a farm in the Utah mountains , Jim Jensen imagined himself digging dinosaurs . As he told John Noble Wilford of the New York Times in 1981 , " While some boys dreamed of a new bicycle , I dreamed of ...
... Jensen . From the age of ten , on a farm in the Utah mountains , Jim Jensen imagined himself digging dinosaurs . As he told John Noble Wilford of the New York Times in 1981 , " While some boys dreamed of a new bicycle , I dreamed of ...
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... Jensen is not a trained scientist , nor is he temperamentally inclined to bookish research and scholarly writing . He was quick to name his finds but slow to produce scientific papers doing so properly , perhaps from unfamiliarity with ...
... Jensen is not a trained scientist , nor is he temperamentally inclined to bookish research and scholarly writing . He was quick to name his finds but slow to produce scientific papers doing so properly , perhaps from unfamiliarity with ...
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... Jensen left behind a staggering one hundred tons of jacketed fossils , white- plastered boulders full of dinosaur bones so numerous and volumi- nous they fill not only an Agricultural School warehouse but the base- ment of the vast BYU ...
... Jensen left behind a staggering one hundred tons of jacketed fossils , white- plastered boulders full of dinosaur bones so numerous and volumi- nous they fill not only an Agricultural School warehouse but the base- ment of the vast BYU ...
Contents
The Truth About Dinosaurs | 15 |
Glossary of Essential Terms | 23 |
Approaching the Dinosaur Frontier | 27 |
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