Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur
origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of
successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur
paleobiology, such as "warm-bloodedness," birds as living
dinosaurs, the new, non-flying feathered dinosaurs, dinosaur
functional morphology, and cladistic methods in systematics. Its
explicitly phylogenetic approach to the group is that taken by
dinosaur specialists. The book is not an edited compilation of the
works of many individuals, but a unique, cohesive perspective on
Dinosauria. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of new, specially
commissioned illustrations by John Sibbick, world-famous
illustrator of dinosaurs, the volume includes multi-page drawings
as well as sketches and diagrams. First edition Hb (1996):
0-521-44496-9 David E. Fastovsky is Professor of Geosciences at the
University of Rhode Island. Fastovsky, the author of numerous
scientific publications dealing with Mesozoic vertebrate faunas and
their ancient environments, is also scientific co-Editor of
Geology. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork studying dinosaurs
and their environments in Montana, North Dakota, Arizona, Mexico,
and Mongolia. David B. Weishampel is a professor at the Center for
Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University,
School of Medicine. Weishampel is best known for discovering,
researching, and naming several rare European dinosaur species.
During the 1980s Weishampel gained fame for his work with American
paleontologist Jack Horner and later named the famous plant-eating,
egg-laying Orodromeus, Horner. Now, a decade after his pioneering
studies with Horner, Weishampel is most widely known for his
current work on the Romanian dinosaur fauna. He is the author and
co-author of many titles, including The Dinosaur Papers, 1676-1906
(Norton, 2003); The Dinosauria, (University of California, 1990);
and Dinosaurs of the East Coast, (Johns Hopkins University Press,
1996).
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