The Future of Dinosaurs

Hone, David

£25.00

Palaeontologist Dr David Hone tells us everything we know about dinosaurs – and everything we don’t yet know. We have made more discoveries about dinosaurs in the last 20 years than we have in the previous 200, and there is a wealth of research that has never been written about before, from their skin (some had feathers) to their extinction (the myth of the meteorite), much of which is David’s own personal research and discovery. In ‘The Future of Dinosaurs’ Dr David Hone shows us the extraordinary advances in palaeontological research that are starting to fill in these gaps, and sets out the future of dinosaurs for the next generation.

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Publish Date: 24/03/2022

Description

Out now: the new book by Dr David Hone which explores the frontiers of dinosaur research

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Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early-1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of these animals and in the past twenty years, we have made more discoveries than in the previous two hundred.

There have been extraordinary advances in palaeontological methods and ever more dinosaur fossils promise a landslide of new data and huge leaps forward in our understanding of these incredible animals. Over time, we have been bale to look at the sizes and shapes of bones, we have identified patches of fossil skin, we have looked at footprints and bite marks and we’ve calculated mass estimates and walking speeds.

With surprisingly little data to work from, we can put together a picture of an animal that has been extinct for a million human lifetimes. But for all our technological advances, and two centuries of new data and ideas, there is stull much more we don’t know. What parasites and diseases afflicted them? How did they communicate? Did they climb trees? How many species were there?

In The Future of Dinosaurs, palaeontologist Dr David Hone looks at the recent strides in scientific research and the advanced knowledge we’ve gathered in recent years, as well as what we hope to learn in the future about these most fascinating of extinct creatures.
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Additional information

Weight 480 g
Dimensions 236 × 160 × 30 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

xiv, 252 , 8 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

567.9 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K