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Fifty-two years after the pink-headed duck was last seen in the
wild, Rory Nugent set off for India in search of this exceptionally
rare bird. In Calcutta he prowled the fowl market, where a few of
the ducks used to appear during the Raj. Traveling on to Delhi, he
was befriended by a Cambridge-educated smuggler, and he learned of
remote regions to the north where the duck might be found. In
Sikkim, following the trail of a Yeti, he became lost in the Valley
of Bliss and nearly imprisoned inside a forest of rhododendrons,
each the size of a ranch house. Making his way to Assam, he bought
a 13-foot skiff and paddled the Brahmaputra River from Burma to
Bangladesh, with stops on an island, considered to be Kali's left
breast, and at a Tantrist temple, where he stumbled on a grisly
ritual in a graveyard. In a secluded marsh along the river he may
have spotted the world's rarest duck.
Scientists have recovered more than a billion fossils, but no
discovery has been more breath-taking than the fossils recently
found in northern China, findings which prove that several families
of dinosaurs had feathers, or feathery hair-like coverings,
adorning their bodies.
Now in the beautifully designed Feathered Dinosaurs,
paleontologist John Long and illustrator Peter Schouten provide a
stunning visual record of these extraordinary prehistoric
creatures, illuminating the evolutionary march from primitive,
feathered dinosaurs through to the first true flying birds.
Schouten, an acclaimed natural history artist, has created 80
full-color paintings that capture the striking physical traits of
these feathered dinosaurs. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of
the lifestyles of modern birds and mammals, plus the extant
scientific data regarding how these dinosaurs might have looked and
behaved, Schouten has produced not only the most beautiful but also
the most accurate visual representations of these animals in print.
Equally important, John Long, a noted paleontologist and widely
published science author (with some 24 books to his credit),
provides an engaging companion text that places these feathered
dinosaurs within the larger family of dinosaurs--for instance,
outlining their relationship to T. Rex and Velociraptor, species
well known to Jurassic Park fans--and discusses the factual
information that can be deduced from their fossil remains, in
effect providing an insightful natural history of this remarkable
group.
A true marriage of art and science, Feathered Dinosaurs presents
an unprecedented visual record of one of the most significant
breakthroughs in the history ofvertebrate paleontology--the
discovery that many predatory dinosaurs were cloaked with feathers,
perhaps just as colorful and fanciful as those of their living
relatives.
A Guidebook that provides expert information on North American
dinosaurs from a biblical yet scientific perspective. In-depth
facts and figures on over 100 genera of dinosaurs organized
according to their likely created kinds. More than 300 artistic
sketches and full-color photographs. Actual fossil evidences upon
which secular and creationist dinosaur interpretations are based.
informative essays on dinosaurs and the Bible, dinosaur footprints,
dinosaur eggs, dinosaur museums, dinosaur hunting, dinosaur
paleontologists and more. Answers to many of the mysteries
surrounding dinosaurs that cannot be logically solved using secular
presuppositions. Complete Bibliography, Glossary and Index.
I would like to present a plausible explanation as to why planet
earth and its prehistoric life forms are possibly millions of years
old and yet present life forms, of which man is the last and
highest of God's creation, are very young-probably 6,000-7000 years
young.
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