James O. Farlow

I read this work in conjunction with the Coursera class, Dino 101, offered by the University of Alberta. It proved to be quite the conversation piece in the staff lounge at work during the three months it took me to work my way through it. But wow! It is an incredible collection of knowledge spanning all presently known areas of dinosaur study and speculation, from the history of paleontology itself to dinosaur origins, anatomy, classification, behavior, disease and extinction. I would very much recommend The Complete Dinosaur to the adult armchair paleontologist who never quite grew out of the youthful passion for dinosaurs.… (plus d'informations)