How Fast Did T. Rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science - Hardcover

Hone, David

 
9780691242514: How Fast Did T. Rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0691242518 ISBN 13: 9780691242514
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2022

Synopsis

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs

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--the 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--and everything we don't--and charts thrilling new directions for tomorrow's generation of dinosaur scientists.

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About the Author

David Hone is a palaeontologist and Reader at Queen Mary University of London. He has written about dinosaurs for leading publications such as National Geographic, The Guardian, The Telegraph and HuffPost. His books include The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0691242518
ISBN 13 
9780691242514
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
280

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