My beloved Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs /

My beloved Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Switek, Brian.
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description:	256 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Apatosaurus -- Miscellanea. Paleontology -- Miscellanea. Popular culture. Dinosaurs. Paleontology -- Mesozoic. Apatosaurus. Paleontology. Popular culture. Miscellanea.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9108601

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Varying Form of Title:	Brontosaurus : on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs
ISBN:	9780374135065 (hbk.) 0374135061 (hbk.)
Notes:	Jacket interior unfolds to form a col. poster. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Paleontology meets pop culture in a young author's journey into the lives of dinosaurs"-- A regular columnist for Smithsonian and Wired questions our long-held beliefs about dinosaurs and presents the latest scientific findings on what colors they really were, how they got so big and how they actually may have died out.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: My dinosaur life
Dragons of the prime
The secret of dinosaur success
Big Bang theory
The dinosaurs, they are a-changin'
Jurassic thunder
Dinosaur society
Dinosaur feathers
Hadrosaur harmonics and Tyrannosaur tastes
In the bones
Dinosaurs undone
Epilogue: My beloved "brontosaurus".