The Dinosaur Hunters: In Association with the American Museum of Natural History

Author(s): Lowell Dingus

Natural History

The "Dinosaur Hunters" tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs, from the eighteenth-century interest in sea dragons to present day work with DNA, through the men and women who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge. Through the inclusion of 15 facsimile documents, rare photographs and maps, you can travel the world and the centuries. You will relive the discovery of the first confirmed dinosaur relic, uncover feathers from an Archaeopteryx with Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer, go on an expedition to the Gobi Desert with Roy Chapman Andrews, and analyze the Sinornithosaurus with Ji Qiang and Ju Shu-An.

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Dr Lowell Dingus is a Research Associate in Paleontology at the AMNH. He has participated in many expeditions and co-led the team that discovered the first sauropod dinosaur embryos. Mark Norell is a curator at the AMNH and chairperson of the Division of Paleontology. He is famed for his part in discovering of feathered dinosaurs.

Contents; Foreword and Introduction; The Delicate Roots of Palaeontology; From a Dubious Start, Giants Slowly Emerge; The Rise of the Lizard-Like Dinosaurs; The Concept of "Terrible Reptiles"; Flying Dinosaurs?; A Revolutionary Portrait; Titans of American Palaeontology Boom to Bust; Titans of American Palaeontology; The Great American Bone War; The "First Family" of Dinosaur Collecting; King of Collectors; Clues Contained in Trace Fossils; Discovery and Destruction; Immense Beasts from Equatorial Africa; To the Heart of Asia; The First Family Portrait; Dinosaurs Return to the Global Stage; A Modern-day Make-over; Following in Andrews' Footsteps and Beyond; Unscrambling a Mystery; Extreme Dinosaurs; Asian Windows on the Mesozoic World; Flocks of Fabulous Fossils; The Tiniest Giants; African Evolution; The Great Murder Mystery; Jurassic Park.

General Fields

  • : 9781780971292
  • : Carlton Books Ltd
  • : Carlton Books Ltd
  • : 1.361
  • : July 2012
  • : 245mm X 283mm X 33mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lowell Dingus
  • : Paperback
  • : Paperback
  • : 567.9
  • : 567.9
  • : 64
  • : 64
  • : 200 colour & b&w illustrations & 7 maps
  • : 200 colour & b&w illustrations & 7 maps