Bibliograph

The dinosaur book, written by John Woodward ; consultant Darren Naish

Type

Label

The dinosaur book, written by John Woodward ; consultant Darren Naish

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

8 - 12 years old

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The dinosaur book

Responsibility statement

written by John Woodward ; consultant Darren Naish

Series statement

DK Smithsonian

Summary

Shares information on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, including prosauropods, titanosaurs, and spinosaurids

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Timeline of life -- Changing planet -- Types of fossils -- Fossil finds -- Origin of life -- Game-changers -- Evolution and extinction -- The vertebrates -- What is a dinosaur? -- Inside a dinosaur -- Before the dinosaurs -- The first animals -- Built to survive -- Set in stone -- Trilobites -- The age of fish -- Fish armor -- Early life on land -- Towering trees -- Arthropod empire -- Airborne giant -- Early amphibians -- Rise of the reptiles -- Reptiles branch out -- Hungry hunter -- The age of dinosaurs -- The first dinosaurs -- Prosauropods -- Sauropods -- Mobile necks -- Titanosaurs -- Footprints and trackways -- Stegosaurs -- About tails -- Deadly spikes -- Ankylosaurs -- Dinosaur defense -- Iguanodontians -- Plant-eaters -- Hadrosaurs -- Cool crests -- Dinosaur eggs -- Dinosaur creche -- Pachycephalosaurs -- Ceratopsians -- Head-to-head -- Herds and packs -- Early theropods -- Spinosaurids -- Allosauroids -- Cutting edge -- Tyrannosaurs --Contents note continued: Ultimate hunter -- Ornithomimosaurs -- Oviraptorosaurs -- Arms and hands -- Protective wings -- Therizinosaurs -- Sharp claws -- Dromaeosaurs -- Toothed eagle -- Dinosaurs take flight -- Skin, scales, and feathers -- Feathered hunters -- First up -- Taking off -- Early birds -- Giant birds -- High-speed killer -- Pterosaurs -- Early pterosaurs -- Later pterosaurs -- Prowling predator -- Colorful crests -- The marine world -- Life in Mesozoic seas -- Early marine reptiles -- Flippers and tails -- Giant marine reptiles -- Ambush hunter -- The rise of mammals -- A new world -- Trapped in amber -- The first mammals -- Giant sloths and armadillos -- Body cover -- Mega-marsupials -- Giant herbivores -- Horns and antlers -- Powerful predators -- Mammal teeth -- Saber charge -- Ice-age giants -- Primates -- Early humans -- Window to the past

Target audience

juvenile

Classification