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Weird Dinosaurs

Weird Dinosaurs

The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew

by John Pickrell
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/11/2016

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We’re in a golden age of discovery and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger, bigger, scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined.

From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new discoveries and meets the fossil hunters leading the charge.

Discover the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron, an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex, the Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat, and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it was heavier than two commercial jet airliners.

Why did dinosaurs grow so huge?

Did they all have feathers?

And what do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners?

Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past.

ISBN:
9781742234731
9781742234731
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-11-2016
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
John Pickrell

John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist and the editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos.

John's articles can also be found online and in print at BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, Scientific American and the ABC.

He has been a finalist in the Australian Museum's Eureka prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award and featured in The Best Australian Science Writing 2011.

John studied biology at Imperial College in the UK and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from London's Natural History Museum.

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