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The worlds leading paleontologist takes us on a visual tour of the latest dinosaur science, illustrated with accurate and stunning paleoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they wereor at least, they didnt look like you thought they did. Here, world-leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have changed the way we see these extinct beasts forever. Stunning, brand-new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls display the latest and most exciting scientific discoveries in vibrant color. From Sinosauropteryx, the first dinosaur to have its color patterns identifieda ginger-and-white striped tail and a bandit maskby Bentons team at the University of Bristol to recent research on the surprising mixed feathers and scales of Kulindadromeus, this is one of the first books to include cutting-edge scientific research in paleontology. Each chapter focuses on a particular extinct species, featuring a specially commissioned illustration by Bob Nicholls that brings to life the latest scientific breakthroughs, with accompanying text exploring how paleontologists have determined new details, such as the patterns on skin and the colors of feathers of animals that lived millions of years ago. This visual compendium surprises and challenges everything you thought you knew about what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
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Thames & Hudson include:
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
Michael J. Benton
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
Michael J. Benton
The Great Naturalists
Edited by Robert Huxley
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Michael J. Benton is Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology and head of the world-leading Palaeobiology Research Group at the University of Bristol. He has written more than fifty books, including The Dinosaurs Rediscovered (2019) and When Life Nearly Died (2015), both published by Thames & Hudson.
An Early Cretaceous theropod. The discovery of a feathered specimen in 1996 forever changed our picture of the dinosaurs. |
A Middle to Late Jurassic dinosaur whose discovery gave insights into an evolutionary bridge between the birds and the dinosaurs. |
Feathered, but flightless: an Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur covered with down-like feathers. |
Aerodynamic dinosaurs: this Early Cretaceous theropod had four wings and long feathers to assist in gliding. |
The earliest bird? A Late Jurassic theropod with flight feathers. |
This Early Cretaceous bird, found in China, was among the first whose colours were determined. |
A Late Cretaceous hadrosaurid dinosaur that was especially common in North America. |
A small Early Cretaceous mammal with fur. |
This Late Cretaceous sauropod was the first to show fossilized evidence of armour-plated skin. |
This Early Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur and its nests are so abundant in the fossil record that we can visualize it from infancy through to adulthood. |
A Middle to Late Jurassic dinosaur whose skin was covered with both protofeathers and scales, giving insights into the evolution of feathers. |
An Early Jurassic ichthyosaur that was cleverly countershaded to camouflage itself from its prey. |
An Early Cretaceous ankylosaur with red armour plates. |
A Middle to Late Jurassic pterosaur with an unusually short tail that allowed greater manoeuvrability when hunting. |
An Early Cretaceous pterodactlyoid pterosaur with a distinctive and colourful head crest. |
A Late Jurassic pterosaur, Anurognathus. This was a highly manoeuvrable, insect-eating pterosaur (flying reptile).
The monster bears down on the fleeing jeep, the earth shaking as its feet come down with thunderous steps; it snatches up an outhouse in its jaws, grabs the nervous lawyer and swallows him down in one gulp. So we meet Tyrannosaurus rex in Steven Spielbergs Jurassic Park (1993). It is a truly terrifying sight: all shining, scaly skin, talons and teeth. This image of the dinosaur is so widespread we often dont ask how we know they looked like that. In fact, we now know that they didnt look much like that at all.
Of course, we got some things right. Flesh can be added to the bones with some confidence because muscles leave marks on the bone and, in any case, all tetrapods (four-limbed animals) have pretty much the same muscles; long before anyone had thought about dinosaurs, anatomists noticed that humans and horses, chickens and frogs all have the same muscles in their arms, legs and jaws. They may develop differently depending on whether the animal is a fast runner, or a flyer, or has weak or strong jaws, but their framework of muscles and bones are fundamentally the same. Certain behaviours, like running and feeding, can be determined from simple, common-sense observations. For example, carnivores have sharp teeth like steak knives, while herbivores have blunter, sometimes peg-like teeth. Some dinosaurs moved on all fours, and their arms and legs are of similar lengths, whereas others were bipeds, and so have much longer hind legs. Some, like T. rex, have such silly little arms that they were surely never used in locomotion.
But what about the skin? The
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