EAN: 9780231186032

THE STORY OF THE DINOSAURS IN 25 DISCOVERIES - ...

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.

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