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Chargement... Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (2014)par John Pickrell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Good popular science book about birds being an offshoot of the dinosaurs. Contains some very nice artwork. ( ) When I started this book after about 25 pages or so I was inclined to set it aside as it didn't seem to be telling me enough that I didn't already know. However, things pick up quickly and Pickrell has a lot to say about the metabolic and structural relationships between dinosaurs and modern birds, the contributions of Chinese researchers, the modern problem of fake fossils, and other issues. Pickrell ends on the note of contemplating how birds were able to survive the great Cretaceous extinction and, more interestingly, why small dinosaurs did not. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic.The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating ritual, or a stepping stone in the evolution of flight? And just how closely related is T. rex to a chicken? Award-winning journalist John Pickrell reveals how dinosaurs developed flight and became the birds in our backyards. He delves into the latest discoveries in Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)567.918Natural sciences and mathematics Fossils & prehistoric life Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates Reptilia Dinosaurs By Family PterosauriaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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