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Weird Dinosaurs
Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew | John Pickrell
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From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters working at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. Rex, which once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. Pickrell opens a vivid portal to a brand new age of fossil discovery, in which fossil hunters are routinely redefining what we know and how we think about prehistory's most iconic and fascinating creatures.
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BookDragonNotWorm
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My mom just sent me this, said it made her think of me because I love dinosaurs. Uhuh. Yeah. Obviously it's because of the dinosaur. 🦖

RavenLovelyReads 😂😂i love this!!!😂😂 6y
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Cassandra_L
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Pickpick

There's a wierd dinosaur on my book about wierd dinosaurs :-(

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Cassandra_L
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I loved the story of the female-led Polish expeditions in Mongolia in the 60s & 70s and the 'unusual terrible hands' they found - I found it unexpectedly moving to know only one was able to see the final fruits of their work while the other died never knowing.

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Misanthropester
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It's not weird until it involves Nicholas Cage #science

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Misanthropester
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The color photos & artist renderings in this book are stellar. One of my fav #dinosaurs, ceratopsians get a 2 pg spread. #science

Jabberwocky Gorgeous! 8y
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Misanthropester
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Goddamn! Screw Indiana Jones... #science

TobeyTheScavengerMonk I'd watch the hell out of that biopic. 8y
Misanthropester Right? It'd be epic 8y
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Misanthropester
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Wife is teaching a class on dinosaurs next semester so I thought I'd read one of the books she may use

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