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Flying Dinosaurs

Flying Dinosaurs

How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds

by John Pickrell
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2014

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Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what you thought you knew and journey into the deep, dark depths of the Jurassic.

The discovery of the first feathered dinosaur in China in 1996 sent shockwaves through the palaeontological world. Were the feathers part of a complex mating ritual, or a stepping stone in the evolution of flight? And just how closely related T. rex to a chicken

Award-winning journalist John Pickrell reveals how dinosaurs developed flight and became the birds in our backyards. He delves into the latest discoveries in China, the US, Europe and uncovers a thriving black market in fossils and infighting between dinosaur hunters, plus the controversial plan to use a chicken to bring dinosaurs back from the dead.

Take a look inside Flying Dinosaurs in this flip book sample, or see the author's website for more information.

John Pickrell asks what colour was the Archaeopteryx?
ISBN:
9781742233666
9781742233666
Category:
Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2014
Publisher:
NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
240
Dimensions (mm):
233x155x17mm
Weight:
0.33kg
John Pickrell

John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist and the editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos.

John's articles can also be found online and in print at BBC Wildlife, National Geographic, Scientific American and the ABC.

He has been a finalist in the Australian Museum's Eureka prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award and featured in The Best Australian Science Writing 2011.

John studied biology at Imperial College in the UK and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from London's Natural History Museum.

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