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Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781742233666
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: Oct 1 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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 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 China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.
Take a look inside Flying Dinosaurs in this flip book sample, or see the author's website for more information.
John Pickrell asks what colour was the Archaeopteryx?
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