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From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and
the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and
dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new
finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of
discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric
Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger
than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese
dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so
enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other
surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma,
and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they
spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do
sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of
adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs
examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are
radically transforming our understanding of the distant past.
Pickrell opens a vivid portal to a brand-new age of fossil
discovery, in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we
know and how we think about prehistory's most iconic and
fascinating creatures.
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