Dinosaur discoveries
Book - 2018
Describes the work of paleontologists, relates special features of dinosaur groups, and examines the most recent theories of what led to their extinction.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Picture books
- Published
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New York :
Holiday House
[2018]
- Edition
- New edition. Second edition
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Previous edition: 2005.
Color maps on endpapers.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 33 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 x 29 cm
- ISBN
- 9780823440085
0823440087
9780823440092
0823440095 - Main Author
An introduction to different dinos--and the people who discover and study them--from beloved nonfiction picture book master Gail Gibbons, now updated to the minute!Who discovers dinosaurs? What happens to a dinosaur bone when it's found? What exactly were dinosaurs, anyway, and how many different kinds were there? In this simple-but-thorough book, Gail Gibbons covers the basics of paleontology, dinosaurs, dinosaur families and evolutions, and the K-T extinction. Newly revised, Dinosaur Discoveries also includes updates that address dinosaur biology and details of the extinction event.