The Great Dinosaurs

This book revisits many of the key questions and issues in this fascinating area, incorporating the results of the most recent research undertaken by dinosaur specialists. Dinosaur research has intensified over the past few years, leading to some exciting new discoveries - in particular, that most dinosaurs were probably warm-blooded and that dinosaurs were the direct ancestor of our contemporary birds.This comprehensive, thoroughly up-to-date text is accompanied by vivid colour pictures, which have been created specifically for this book to show the individual dinosaur species in their natural habitat.The Great Dinosaurs includes an overview of dinosaur skeletons, as well as detailed information on their anatomy, their ability to adapt and other potential reasons for the great success of these bizarre creatures.The dinosaurs are grouped according to the geological periods in which they occurred - such as Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous - and described with reference to their geographic occurrence, their size and their behavior.