Biology

How Fast Did T. rex Run? Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs

Paperback

Price:
$18.95
ISBN:
Published:
Apr 2, 2024
Pages:
280
Size:
6.13 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
8 page color insert + 25 b/w illus.
Main_subject:
Biology
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In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the mysteries surrounding these marvelous prehistoric creatures, including their mating habits, ways of communicating, skin color, migration patterns, and extinction. How did dinosaurs rear their young? What did they eat? What did T. rex actually do with those tiny arms? David Hone draws on his own discoveries at the forefront of dinosaur science to illuminate these and other questions.

Each chapter in this lively and informative book covers a key topic in dinosaur science, such as origins, diversity, evolution, habitats, anatomy, behaviour, ecology and dinosaur descendants鈥攖he birds. For each topic, Hone discusses the history of what palaeontologists thought in the past, the new insights we are gleaning from recent fossil finds and the latest technologies and the gaps in our knowledge that still remain. He shares his own predictions about the research areas that may produce the next big ideas in dinosaur science and addresses the unknowns we may never solve.

How Fast Did T. rex Run? reveals everything we now know about dinosaurs鈥攁nd everything we don鈥檛鈥攁nd charts thrilling new directions for tomorrow鈥檚 generation of dinosaur scientists.

David Hone on How Fast Did T. rex Run?

Dinosaurs are more and less unknown than you think