DK Encyclopedia: Dinosaurs
- + WHAT IS A DINOSAUR?
- + THE BIRD CONNECTION
- + ERA OF THE DINOSAURS
- + UP IN THE AIR
- + BELOW THE WAVES
- + DINOSAUR HABITATS
- + THE END OF THE DINOSAURS
- + TURNING TO STONE
- + EARLY DISCOVERIES
- + FOSSIL SITES
- + IN THE FIELD
- + BODY FOSSILS
- + TRACE FOSSILS
- + EXAMINING FOOTPRINTS
- + IN THE LAB
- + COMPUTER RECONSTRUCTION
- + DATING FOSSILS
- + RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST
- + BIPEDAL CARNIVORES
- + LONG-NECKED HERBIVORES
- + BIPEDAL HERBIVORES
- + HORNED AND ARMOURED
- + MOVING ABOUT
- + FEEDING
- + DIGESTIVE SYSTEMS
- + ATTACK
- + DEFENCE
- + WINNING A MATE
- + BODY TEMPERATURE
- + BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE
- + SENSES
- + GROWING UP
- + DEATH AND DISEASE
- + PACK HUNTERS
- + HUNTER OR SCAVENGER?
- + HERDING DINOSAURS
- + NESTING COLONIES
- + CHANGING FACES
- + DINOSAURS ON DISPLAY
- + EVOLUTION
- + CLASSIFICATION
- + PROFILES
- Acanthopholis “Spiny scales”
- Albertosaurus “lizard from Alberta”
- Allosaurus “different lizard”
- Anchisaurus “near lizard”
- Anhanguera “old devil”
- Ankylosaurus “fused lizard”
- Apatosaurus “deceptive lizard”
- Archaeopteryx “ancient wing”
- Barapasaurus “big leg”
- Barosaurus “heavy lizard”
- Baryonyx “heavy claw”
- Brachiosaurus “armed lizard”
- Brachylophosaurus “short-crested lizard”
- Camarasaurus “chambered lizard”
- Camptosaurus “flexible lizard”
- Carcharodontosaurus “shark-toothed lizard”
- Carnotaurus “flesh-eating”
- Ceratosaurus “horned lizard”
- Coelophysis “hollow form”
- Compsognathus “pretty jaw”
- Corythosaurus “helmet lizard”
- Cryolophosaurus “frozen-crested lizard”
- Deinonychus “terrible claw”
- Diplodocus “double-beamed”
- Dilophosaurus “two-ridge lizard”
- Dromaeosaurus “running lizard”
- Dryosaurus “Oak tree lizard”
- Dsungaripterus “Junggar basin wing”
- Edmontonia “from Edmonton”
- Edmontosaurus “Edmonton lizard”
- Elasmosaurus “thin-plated lizard”
- Eoraptor “dawn raptor”
- Euoplocephalus “well-armoured lizard”
- Gallimimus “rooster mimic”
- Gastonia “for Gaston”
- Gigantosaurus “giant southern lizard”
- Hadrosaurus “bulky lizard”
- Herrerasaurus “Herrera’s lizard”
- Heterodontosaurus “different-toothed lizard”
- Hylaeosaurus “woodland lizard”
- Hypsilophodon “high-crested tooth”
- Ichthyosaurus “fish lizard”
- Iguanodon “Iguana tooth”
- Kronosaurus “Krono’s lizard”
- Lambeosaurus “Lambe’s lizard”
- Leaellynasaura “Leaellyn’s lizard”
- Lesothosaurus “Lesotho lizard”
- Maiasaura “good mother lizard”
- Mamenchisaurus “Mamexi lizard”
- Megalosaurus “great lizard”
- Mussaurus “mouse lizard”
- Nothosaurus “southern lizard”
- Orodromeus “mountain runner”
- Ouranosaurus “brave lizard”
- Oviraptor “egg robber”
- Pachycephalosaurus “thick-headed lizard”
- Pachyrhinosaurus “thick-nosed lizard”
- Parasauropholus “beside Sauropholus”
- Pentaceratops “five-horned face”
- Phuwiangosaurus “Phu Wiang lizard”
- Plateosaurus “flat lizard”
- Protoceratops “first-horned face”
- Psittacosaurus “parrot lizard”
- Pteranodon “winged and toothless”
- Pterodactylus “winged finger”
- Rhamphorhynchus “beak snout”
- Saltasaurus “Salta Province lizard”
- Scelidosaurus “limb lizard”
- Seismosaurus “quake lizard”
- Spinosaurus “spiny lizard”
- Stegosaurus “roof lizard”
- Styracosaurus “spiked lizard”
- Suchomimus “crocodile mimic”
- Thescelosaurus “wonderful lizard”
- Titanosaurus “Titan lizard”
- Triceratops “horrible three-horned face”
- Troodon “wounding tooth”
- Tropeognathus “keel jaw”
- Tylosaurus “swollen lizard”
- Tyrannosaurus “tyrant lizard”
- Velociraptor “speedy thief”
- Vulcanodon “vulcan tooth”
- Xuanhanosaurus “Xuanhan County lizard”
- + BIOGRAPHIES
- Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon 1707–1788
- Georges Cuvier 1769–1832
- Alexandre Brongniart 1770–1847
- William Buckland 1784–1856
- Gideon Mantell 1790–1852
- Mary Anning 1799–1847
- Richard Owen 1804–1892
- Douglas Agassiz 1807–1873
- Charles Darwin 1809-1882
- Charles Othniel Marsh 1831-1899
- Ernst Haeckel 1834-1919
- William Parker Foulke d.1865
- Edward Drinker Cope 1840–1897
- Louis Dollo 1857–1931
- Eugene Dubois 1858–1940
- Eberhard Fraas 1862–1915
- Ernst Stromer Von Reichenbach 1870–1952
- Barnum Brown 1873–1963
- William Beebe 1877–1962
- Roy Chapman Andrews 1884–1960
- Louis Leakey 1903–1972; Mary Leakey 1913–1996
- Martin Glaessner 1906–1989
- Luis Alvarez 1911–1988; Walter Alvarez b.1940
- Elso Barghoorn b.1915
- Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska b.1925
- José F. Bonaparte b.1928
- Rodolfo Coria (unknown)
- Rinchen Barsbold b.1935
- Dong Zhi-Ming b.1937
- Peter Galton b.1942
- Robert T. Bakker b.1945
- Jennifer Clack b.1947
- Sue Hendrickson b.1949
- Philip J. Currie b.1949
- Derek Briggs b.1950
- Eric Buffetaut b.1950
- Paul Sereno b.1957
- Luis Chiappe b.1962
- GLOSSARY
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