Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs

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Summary: Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs
Review: "Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs" written by Steve Parker is a wonderful text about how the comtemporary view is of the 500 dinosaurs within the pages of this book. "Dinosaurus" is comprehensive to say the least, contemporary, innovative, and is unique in the portrayal of how these dinosaurs lived their lives from flesh-eaters, to egg-stealers, and to the plant eaters. this book covers and extensive array of they animals that we've become to know more about due to new digs and research.

"Dinosaurus" incorporates the latest thinking as to how the listed dinosaurs lived out their lives and eventually died. This book is a challange to the latest thinking on habit and habitat, making for very intertesting reading. When dealing with dinosaurs, perhaps the only certainty to the fact is change. More and more people are lending their collective knowledge to the study of paleontology and we are getting a truer picture of what these animals presumablely looked like from the skeletal remains. With the advent of forensics being applied to paleontology more information is being gleamed for the digs when remains are now found.

The number of kinds, or species, of animals, plants and other living things in existance today exceeds 10 million. While insects are the vast majority. There are some main subgroups of invertebrates which include nearly 100,000 species. With this in mind remember that 99 out of 100 kinds of living things that have ever existed are no longer around. They form a vast array of life that have appeared and then disappeared on the planet.

There is a unique fold out for the different eras and the subgroups of time within them... giving the reader a chronological breakdown of when life started and flourish and different times during the past to the present, and there are examples of the life that existed in these time periods. The classification of some 400 genra of dinosaurs, and of several species within many of these genra, is a terrific achievement in relation to a group of animals only known to us via a fossil record.

I found this book to be enthralling and kept my interest till the end with all the latest information incorporated in the drawing of the dinosaurs and what we precieve them to look like. The principal evidence for the existence of dinosaurs and other long-gone living things comes from fossils, as these are the remains of organisms, or the traces they left.

"Dinosaurus" has dinosaurs from North America(Wyoming, Montana, and Alberta), Eurasia, Australia, South America, and Africa. What has made dinosaurs ever more interesting in recent years are the many studies that have centered on the companion of these creatures and their respective enviorments, which they lived during the Mesozoic Era.

"Dinosaurus" has fifteen chapters making of a very comprehensive book. Covering Early life, Conquerors of the Land, The First Dinosaurs, The Small Meat-eaters, The Great Predators, Ostrich Dinosaurs, The Giants, The Bird-foot Dinosaurs, The Duckbills, The Boneheads, The Armored Dinosaurs, The Plated Dinosaurs, The Horned Dinosaurs, Other Creatures of the Dinosaur Age, And Afterthe Dinosaurs. There are listings of the Main Fossil Sites and Where to Find Dinosaurs, and very well-appointed glossary, and an Index for easy location of the dinosaur you're looking for.

I would highly recommend this book to the novice and the well season fossil hunter and it give clues as ato what this vast array of creatures looked like. The classification of some 400 genra of dinosaurs, and of several species within many of these genra, is a terrific achievement and should be read by all enthusists. The illustrations really make the book come to life and make the book very interesting.

"Dinosaurus" is a solid 5 star book and should be enjoyed by all with an interest in dinosaurs and their habitat and the is a dino-factoid with every species that gives the actual size to a common human's height and some of the giants are huge, while others are no bigger that the average cat or dog.

You'll get some interesting perspectives reading this book about dinosaurs that you haven't seen elsewhere.

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Summary: One Big Dinosaur Book!!!! A True Dinosaur Bible!!!!
Review: Dinosaurus is certainly a great big book with lots of dinosaur images and simple text to read. You can learn so much about dinosaurs and other animals that live before, during and after them in this book. In fact, I honestly am an expert on dinosaurs. I have been this way ever since I was a young girl. This book, among all the others I have read and enjoyed, will totally keep my dinosaur wisdom refreshed and well informed. It's Simply one of the best!!!