The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries - Donald R Prothero Kartoniert (TB)

In The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries Donald R. Prothero tells the fascinating stories behind the most important fossil finds and the intrepid researchers who unearthed them. In twenty-five vivid vignettes he weaves together dramatic tales of dinosaur discoveries with what modern science now knows about the species to which they belong. Prothero takes us from eighteenth-century sightings of colossal bones taken for biblical giants through recent discoveries of enormous predators even larger than Tyrannosaurus. He recounts the escapades of the larger-than-life personalities who made modern paleontology including scientific rivalries like the nineteenth-century Bone Wars.? Prothero also details how to draw the boundaries between species and explores debates such as whether dinosaurs had feathers explaining the findings that settled them or keep them going. Throughout he offers a clear and rigorous look at what paleontologists consider sound interpretation of evidence.