DINOSAURS *

The ideal textbook for non-science majors, this lively and engaging introduction encourages students to ask questions, assess data critically and think like a scientist. Building on the success of previous editions, Dinosaurs has been reorganized and extensively rewritten in response to instructor and student feedback. This edition has been thoroughly updated to include new discoveries in the field, such as the toothed bird specimens found in China and recent discoveries of dinosaur soft anatomy. Illustrations by leading paleontological illustrator John Sibbick and new, carefully-chosen photographs, clearly show how dinosaurs looked, lived and their role in Earth history. Making science accessible and relevant through clear explanations and extensive illustrations, the text guides students through the dinosaur groups, emphasizing scientific concepts rather than presenting endless facts. Grounded in the common language of modern evolutionary biology – phylogenetic systematics – students learn to think about dinosaurs the way that professional palaeontologists do.

Contents
Part I. Remembrance of Things Past:
1. To Catch a Dinosaur
2. Dinosaur Days
3. Who's Related to Whom – and How Do We Know?
4. Who Are the Dinosaurs?
5. In The Beginning

Part II. Saurischia: Meat, Might, Muscle, and Magnitude:
6. Theropoda I: Nature Red In Tooth and Claw
7. Theropoda II: Meet the Theropods
8. Theropoda III: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds
9. Sauropodomorpha: The Big, the Bizarre, and the Majestic

Part III. Ornithischia: Armored, Horned, and Duck-Billed Dinosaurs:
10. Thyreophora: the Armor-bearers
11. Marginocephalia: Bumps, Bosses, and Beaks
12. Ornithopoda: Mighty Mesozoic Masticators

Part IV. Endothermy, Endemism, and Extinction:
13. The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs I
14. The Paleobiology of Dinosaurs II
15. The Flowering of the Mesozoic
16. A History of Dinosaur Paleontology Through the Ideas of Dinosaur Paleontologists
17. The Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction: The Frill is Gone

Glossary
Index of Subjects
Index of Genera