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Flying dinosaurs


Chris Merkord
  • How fearsome reptiles became birds John Pickrell NewSouth Books 2014 Australia https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/flying-dinosaurs/

    Published in North America by Columbia University Press

    240pp | 234x153mm

    English No value 06/01/2014 9781742233666 06/01/2014

Book website: http://flyingdinosaurs.net/

 

Dinosaurs didn’t die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic.

 

The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating ritual, or a stepping stone in the evolution of flight? And just how closely related is T. rex to a chicken?

 

Award-winning journalist John Pickrell reveals how dinosaurs developed flight and became the birds in our backyards. He delves into the latest discoveries in China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.




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