Dinosaurs, A Visual Encyclopedia, Morgan B., 2011

Dinosaurs, A Visual Encyclopedia, Morgan B., 2011.
  
   We are surrounded by fascinating animals. Gigantic whales and sharks swim in the oceans. Spectacular large animals — such as big cats, elephants and giraffes — live on the land. Wild places everywhere are filled with insects, birds, and thousands of other living things. But Earth’s fossil record shows us that these creatures are just the tips of an amazing hidden tree of life that stretches back hundreds of millions of years into the distant past. This rich fossil record tells us an incredible and complicated story of evolution and extinction. While modern animals may well be fascinating, those of the past were often bigger, stronger, or much, much weirder.
In this book you will see many spectacular illustrations of these animals and many others, all arranged in their evolutionary families and roughly in the order in which they appeared. Opening this book is like stepping back in time. Get ready to go on a spectacular visual tour of the animal life of the past, and prepare to be amazed.




Evolution.
Fossils of prehistoric animals show us that life on Earth is always changing. Over time, old species disappear and new ones develop from them, like new relatives appearing in a family tree. These new species appear thanks to a process of gradual change we call evolution.

Evolution is driven by a process called natural selection. Animals and plants produce more offspring than survive to adulthood, all of them slightly different. Nature selects those with the best characteristics, which then pass on these characteristics to the next generation.

CONTENTS.
FOREWORD.
PREHISTORIC LIFE.
How life began.
Evolution.
Timeline of life.
Changing planet.
All about fossils.
Dinosaur National Monument.
Fossil hunting.
A look at size.
INVERTEBRATES.
What are invertebrates?.
The first animals.
Cambrian Explosion.
Opabinia.
Marrella.
Trilobites.
Selenopeltis.
Echinoderms.
Brittle stars.
Spiders and scorpions.
Giant millipede.
Insects.
Butterfly.
Fossilized in amber.
Meganeura.
Ammonites.
Fossil gems.
Fossil seashells.
EARLY VERTEBRATES.
What are vertebrates?.
Jawless fish.
Armored fish.
Sharks and rays.
Megatooth shark.
Bony fish.
Lepidotes.
Lobe-finned fish.
Conquering land.
Amphibians.
Amphibamus.
Early plants.
Postosuchus.
Effigia.
Crocodylomorphs.
Pterosaurs.
Eudimorphodon.
Nothosaurs.
Plesiosaurs.
The Loch Ness monster.
Rhomaleosaurus.
Ichthyosaurs.
Stenopterygius.
A young fossil hunter.
Mosasaurs.
DINOSAURS AND BIRDS.
Killer jaws.
What are dinosaurs?.
Small ornithischians.
Pachycephalosaurus.
Ceratopsians.
Triceratops.
Iguanodontians.
Hadrosaurids.
Dinosaur droppings.
Corythosaurus.
Edmontosaurus.
Scelidosaurus.
Stegosaurs.
Kentrosaurus.
Ankylosaurs.
Euoplocephalus.
Prosauropods.
Sauropods and relatives.
Inside a dinosaur.
Isanosaurus.
Diplodocoids.
Barosaurus.
Building a dinosaur.
Titanosaurs.
Dinosaur tracks.
Theropods.
Eoraptor.
Coelophysis.
Dubreuillosaurus.
Spinosaurids.
Suchomimus.
Allosaurus.
Tyrannosauroids.
Tyrannosaurus.
Compsognathids.
Ornithomimids.
Animatronic dinosaurs.
Oviraptorosaurs.
Dinosaur eggs.
Therizinosaurs.
Dromaeosaurs.
Fight to the death.
Microraptor.
Sinornithosaurus.
Troodon.
Death of the dinosaurs.
Early birds.
Late birds.
Gastornis.
MAMMALS.
What are mammals?.
Pelycosaurs.
Therapsids.
The first mammals.
Flowering plants.
Marsupials.
Thylacine.
Insect-eaters and relatives..
Icaronycteris.
Cats and hyenas.
Ice age!.
Caniforms.
A sticky end.
Rabbits and rodents.
Hoofed mammals.
Leptomeryx.
Macrauchenia.
Horses.
Chalicotherium.
Rhinoceroses.
Ashfall fossil beds.
Elephants and relatives.
Woolly mammoth.
Lyuba, the baby mammoth.
Megatherium.
Deer, giraffes, and camels.
Aurochs.
Cave paintings.
Andrewsarchus.
Whales in the making.
Primates.
Australopithecus.
Homo erectus.
Neanderthals.
Myths and legends.
Modern humans.
Bushman rock art.
GLOSSARY AND INDEX.



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