Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs

by Steve Parker

Book Overview

"Magnificent in its breadth and illustration." -- Booklist Dinosaurus was published in 2003 and went on to sell 15,000 in hardcover and more in paperback. Now 13 years have passed during which there... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552977722
• ISBN13: 9781552977729
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Firefly Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.3" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

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This is not the book I received. I got the Second addition, which did not contain all the dinosaurs as the original.

A very complete and detailed book

This is one of the best dinosaur book I have ever read. This book is probabley the biggest and most detailed dinosaur reseach book out there. It includes all the well known dinosaurs, and many new finds and less famous beasts. But this book does not include only dinos. It branches out into creatures that lived before the dinosaurs, as well as the beasts that roamed the oceans and skies during the dinosaur era. All the facts are well put together and very accurate, as well as put into a format that is very easy to read. The illustrations are not as stunning as the ones in "A Field Guide to Dinosaurs" but they do portray an accurate picture of these amazing creatures. If you don't own this book, buy it. You won't regret it.

A real 5-star plus! The greatest of dinosaur gems!

This book rocks! My library has that book and I check it out from time to time and this book should be one of the most cherished and best loved of all dinosaur books with lots of cool dinosaur illustrations, fun facts, and so much more. For over 160 million years, these giant brutes ruled the earth and still do within the pages of this book and all other books just like it. A great literature to have in your home as well as in the library too.

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i've gone through a lot of dinosaur titles trying to find the absolute perfect one, and Dinosaurus is pretty much it. the format is great-- one dinosaur per page with accompanying facts/habits/size, etc.-- and the pictures are convincing and scary enough to satisfy all. for people who used to be dinosaur-loving kids (or, for that matter, still ARE dinosaur-loving kids) this is absolutely super plus excellent.

Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs

"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,

One Big Dinosaur Book!!!! A True Dinosaur Bible!!!!

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!!!