What About Dinosaurs?

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ISBN: 9781422215586 | 142221558X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 9/15/2009

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This superbly illustrated Question and Answer book answers more than 70 questions to help you understand key subject areas.

Studying the Past	p. 8
What is fossil?
Where can I meet a dinosaur?
Where are dinosaur fossils found?
How are fossils prepared for study?
How do scientists study fossils?
Which are the most fragile fossils?
What Were Dinosaurs?	p. 10
Why are dinosaur hips important?
How many types of dinosaur were there?
Were all dinosaurs large?
How large were dinosaur eggs?
How did dinosaurs have their young?
Were dinosaurs stupid?
How fast could dinosaurs run?
Before the Dinosaurs	p. 12
What were the ancestors of land animals?
When did fish first evolve?
What were the ancestors of mammals?
The First Dinosaurs	p. 14
Which was the first dinosaur?
What were the ancestors of dinosaurs like?
Which was the first numerous dinosaur?
How did Coelophysis live?
Was there a link between crocodiles and dinosaurs?
The Land of Giants	p. 16
Which was the longest dinosaur?
How did sauropods live?
Why are the names of some dinosaurs changed?
Are sauropod remains still being found?
What did sauropods eat?
Inside a Dinosaur	p. 18
How did sauropods eat?
Why did sauropods have such long necks?
How are footprints fossilized?
How did sauropods digest their food?
Were sauropod feet special?
Have any complete skeletons been found?
Life in the Jurassic	p. 20
Which were the large ornithischian dinosaurs?
Which animals lived in Jurassic seas?
Why did hunting dinosaurs have crests?
Which animals lived the early Jurassic Period?
Why did Stegosaurus have back plates?
Were Stegosaurus stupid?
Into the Air	p. 223
Which animal was the first to fly?
Which was the largest pterosaur?
Were all pterosaurs alike?
Which was the first bird?
What did the ancestor of birds look like?
Did only birds have feathers?
How did the birds evolve?
The Horned Dinosaurs	p. 24
How many types of horned dinosaur were there?
Why were the horned dinosaurs so successful?
How large were the eggs?
Which was one of the most famous fossil discoveries?
Did dinosaurs migrate?
Were the horns good weapons?
Hadrosaurs	p. 26
Why were hadrosaurs special?
Which was the oldest hadrosaur?
Why are hadrosaurs called ôduck-billsö?
How did hadrosaurs care for their young?
How did hadrosaurs build their nests?
Bony Dinosaurs	p. 28
Which dinosaur had the most armor?
How did Ankylosaurus live?
How did Ankylosaurus defend itself?
What were the bone-head dinosaurs?
Which was the smallest bone-head dinosaur?
Why did bone-heads have such thick skulls?
Cretaceous Hunters	p. 30
Did dinosaurs hunt in packs?
Which was the brainiest dinosaur?
Which dinosaur ate fish?
Which dinosaur is called the ôMystery Killerö?
What was the ôTerrible Clawö?
Which hunters had no teeth?
Tyrannosaurus rex	p. 32
What did Tyrannosaurus rex look like?
How fast could Tyrannosaurus rex could move?
What dinosaurs did Tyrannosaurus rex eat?
Why were its arms so small?
Why was its skull so strong?
Was Tyrannosaurus rex the biggest hunter dinosaur?
The End of the Dinosaurs	p. 34
What was the world like just before the extinction?
Did the dinosaurs die out all at once?
Could a meteor have killed the dinosaurs?
Did volcanoes have an effect?
Could mammals have wiped out the dinosaurs?
What happened after the dinosaurs?
Quiz Time	p. 36
Index	p. 38
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