Dinosaur behavior An illustrated guide
Book - 2023
A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologist Paleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers are applying the latest forensic technologies to the fossil record, revealing startling new insights into the lives of dinosaurs. This illustrated guide explores the behavior, evolution, physiology, and extinction of dinosaurs, taking readers inside the mysterious world of these marvelous animals. With specially commissioned illustrations by Bob Nicholls, Dinosaur Behavior explains how the dinosaurs lived and courted, fought and fed, signaled and interacted with each other, and much more.--
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
2023
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 224 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780691244297
- Introduction
- 1. Dinosaurs in Perspective
- Why are Dinosaurs Important?
- Geological Time
- Ancient Geographies
- Ancient Reptiles in the Sea and Air
- Knowing About the Past
- Forensics: Managing the Dig Site
- Origins of Dinosaurs
- The Three Main Dinosaur Groups
- Birds as a Branch of Theropods
- 2. Physiology
- Visualizing Dinosaurs
- Forensics: Putting Flesh on the Bones
- Modern Reptiles and Birds
- A Special Kind of Warm-Bloodedness
- Feathers
- Breathing
- Food Budgets
- Forensics: Making a Dinosaur Food Web
- 3. Locomotion
- Posture and Gait
- Forensics: Modeling Locomotion
- Two Legs or Four?
- Trackways
- Forensics: Tippy-Toes Take-Off
- Calculating Running Speed
- Forensics: Dinosaur Walking Kinematics
- Giant Size and Support
- Forensics: How to be a Giant
- Origins of Flight
- 4. Senses and Intelligence
- Dinosaur Brains
- Forensics: Studying Ancient Brains
- Brains of Modern Reptiles and Birds
- Evolving Intelligence
- Sense of Smell
- Sight
- Hearing
- Spatial Orientation
- 5. Feeding
- Dinosaur Diets
- Teeth and Jaws
- Forensics: Finite Element Analysis of Jaws
- Evidence of Dinosaur Diets
- Forensics: Isotopes and Diet
- Dinosaur Herbivory
- Dinosaur Carnivory (and Other Diets)
- 6. Social Behavior
- Communication and Interaction
- Sexual Selection and Feather Color
- Forensics: Telling the Color of Fossil Feathers
- Courtship and Mating Behavior
- Eggs and Parental Care
- Growing Up
- Forensics: Measuring Growth Rate
- Communication and Living in Herds
- Forensics: Sounds of the Hadrosaurs
- 7. Dinosaurs and Humans
- Extinction
- Forensics: A Whimper or a Bang?
- Survivors and the Modern World
- Opportunities
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments