(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691245584)
King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus Rex is an accessible synthesis of our understanding of the evolutionary position, life history, and biomechanics of the T. rex. It explores answers to classic questions, such as how fast could it run?...Lasīt vairāk
The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs, a series of thirty-seven incredible sculptures of prehistoric animals and geological displays, were unveiled to the public as part of the famous Crystal Palace Park in 1854. The display, which includes iconic depi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Apr-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Indiana University Press, ISBN-13: 9780253048110)
What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environmen...Lasīt vairāk
Extinct worlds live again in paleoart: artworks of fossil animals, plants, and environments carefully reconstructed from paleontological and geological data. Such artworks are widespread in popular culture, appearing in documentaries, museums, b...Lasīt vairāk
Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behavior of a creature weve never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time? And where does the boundary b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jun-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691150611)
For 150 million years, the skies didnt belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the pterodactyls, shared the world with the nonavian dinosaurs until their extinction 65 million years ago. Some pterosaur...Lasīt vairāk
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a...Lasīt vairāk
Pterosauriërs is a popular scientific book about pterosaurs: flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The book answers many questions about these remarkable animals and presents the current state of research. The boo...Lasīt vairāk
