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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... paleon- tologist Sankar Chatterjee . Reassembled and aligned , these fossils com- prise most of the skeleton of a distinctive creature . If Chatterjee has interpreted it properly , it may be the most significant paleontological find of ...
... paleon- tologist Sankar Chatterjee . Reassembled and aligned , these fossils com- prise most of the skeleton of a distinctive creature . If Chatterjee has interpreted it properly , it may be the most significant paleontological find of ...
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... paleon- tologists were not convinced . " This is a leap off the cliff of knowledge into the abyss of speculation , " says University of Pennsylvania paleon- tologist Peter Dodson . Bakker summarized much of his own evolutionary research ...
... paleon- tologists were not convinced . " This is a leap off the cliff of knowledge into the abyss of speculation , " says University of Pennsylvania paleon- tologist Peter Dodson . Bakker summarized much of his own evolutionary research ...
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... paleon- tologist ' who saw dinosaurs as sluggish , dim - witted , swamp - slogging behemoths . " Bakker was lancing at a corpse that had been buried fifteen years before , wrote Dodson . " For instance , orthodox paleon- tologists do ...
... paleon- tologist ' who saw dinosaurs as sluggish , dim - witted , swamp - slogging behemoths . " Bakker was lancing at a corpse that had been buried fifteen years before , wrote Dodson . " For instance , orthodox paleon- tologists do ...
Contents
The Truth About Dinosaurs | 15 |
Glossary of Essential Terms | 23 |
Approaching the Dinosaur Frontier | 27 |
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