энциклопедия по палеонтологии

Dinosaur, Lambert D., 2010.
  
   Long ago, strange beasts roamed the world. Some grew as big as a barn, others were smaller than a hen. Some walked on four legs, others on two. Some were fierce hunters, others were peaceful plant-eaters. These backboned land animals are called dinosaurs. Dinosaur means "terrible lizard," and like lizards, dinosaurs were reptiles. But instead of sprawling, they walked upright, and some dinosaurs had feathers rather than scaly skin. In chilly air, instead of dozing like a lizard, some dinosaurs could stay active by generating their own body heat. The dinosaurs ruled Earth for 160 million years — flourishing on land more successfully than any other group of backboned animals. Then 65 million years ago, they mysteriously died out, except for one group — the dinosaurs that we call birds.

Dinosaurs, The fact files, Harrison P., 2008.
  
   Congratulations! You are about to embark on the journey of a lifetime; in fact, the journey of many lifetimes, as you travel back in time – as much as 245 million years – to view dinosaurs in their own habitats.

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.

Dinosaur, Walker S., 2001.
  
   Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for over 150 million years, then mysteriously died out. These reptiles varied from fierce killers to gentle plant eaters. Lifelike models help us to imagine what they looked like.

Where on Earth, Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Life, Barker Ch., Naish D., 2019.
  
   In this book, you’ll meet a huge variety of creatures that lived on our planet in the prehistoric past, mostly during the “age of the dinosaurs," around 235-66 million years ago. The stories about them here focus on where animals once lived and what this can tell us about them. Wild animals today live in specific areas, known as “ranges," which provide them with what they need to survive. Imagine a forestdwelling, fruit-eating animal such as an orangutan. It cannot live anywhere but in a forest, and that must be a forest with the right kind of fruit trees. Some animals still live in the lands of their ancestors, while others have broadened their range, driven by factors such as climate and the slow shift of continents. In some cases, animals can discover new habitats by swimming or flying.
I hope that this book inspires you to be interested in Earth’s fascinating prehistoric past and perhaps to make scientific discoveries yourself if you're lucky enough to have the opportunity.