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Summary
Summary
Become a dinosaur expert with this beautiful coffee-table book that features breathtaking paleoart paired with the author's research and expert insights.
Dinosaurs have filled us with wonder, amazement, and excitement for thousands of years. Ever since the first monstrous bones were pulled from the earth, we've constructed myths and legends and stories to explain them. These creatures were first dubbed "terrible lizards," but in recent years, science has made remarkable strides, analyzing dinosaurs to gain a better understanding of how they functioned. No amount of research can tell us how dinosaurs behaved or how they interacted with their environments or with the other animals in their ecosystems. For that, we need our imaginations.
The Amazing World of Dinosaurs is a guided tour of the Age of Reptiles. James Kuether's breathtaking, incredibly lifelike paleoart conveys the power and majesty of these animals, while his fascinating text guides us through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with the latest information in dinosaur science. Get to know familiar favorites, such as Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus, as well as wild new finds like Dracoraptor, Cryolophosaurus, and Medusaceratops.
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For over 150 years, dinosaurs and the other prehistoric creatures have sparked the imaginations of children and adults everywhere. The Amazing World of Dinosaurs is the book that dinosaur lovers of all ages--from armchair paleontologists to experts--will want on their coffee table or bookshelf.
Author Notes
James Kuether has been a corporate executive, a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and an executive coach. He is a professional artist whose paintings and photographs hang in galleries and private collections around the globe. He is an amateur fossil hunter and a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast. His paleoart has appeared online and is frequently featured in Prehistoric Times magazine. James divides his time between his home in Minnesota and consulting with non-profit organizations in Southeast Asia.
Excerpts
Excerpts
MASSIVE CLAWS The therizinosaurs represent one of the weirdest lineages in dinosaur evolution. Therizinosaurs were theropods, belonging to the line of bipedal, meat-eating dinosaurs that included Tyrannosaurus. But therizinosaurs were plant eaters. Instead of the curved, blade-like teeth of most theropods, therizinosaurs had small, leaf-shaped teeth well-suited for cropping plants. They also developed huge, pot-bellied guts that would have processed the plant material they ate. Therizinosaurus is the largest therizinosaur, measuring 33 feet in length, and it featured a long neck, long arms, and truly enormous claws on its hands. Its claws are the largest known in the animal world, measuring an incredible three feet long. Despite their wow-factor, we're not quite sure why it had these huge claws. They may have helped it to pull down tree branches to reach leaves. It's also possible that, in addition to plants, Therizinosaurus ate insects and used its large claws to rip open termite mounds or insect nests. But as weird as it was, Therizinosaurus wasn't the strangest dinosaur in Late Cretaceous Asia. That honor belongs to an animal that represented a huge scientific mystery for nearly 50 years. THE STRANGEST DINOSAUR If you were to take pieces from all the dinosaurs that ever existed, mix them up in a bag, and randomly pull out one piece at a time to construct a dinosaur, you probably wouldn't come up with something weirder than Deinocheirus. For over 50 years, Deinocheirus was an enigma that was only known from its 8-foot-long arms and hands. Then in 2013 came the announcement that two new specimens had been discovered. Finally, the entire picture of Deinocheirus was complete. And what a picture it turned out to be! Deinocheirus is an ornithomimid, the group of "ostrich dinosaurs" that includes Gallimimus and Struthiomimus, but its physiology is wildly different from any other ornithomimid found to date. First off, it's huge--36 feet long. That's tyrannosaur size! And it sports a large hump or sail on its back. Finally, unlike the short skulls of most ornithomimids, Deinocheirus had an extremely long skull, more than 3 feet in length, and it ended in a broad, spoonbill-like beak. Evolution produced a lot of weird dinosaurs, but in Deinocheirus it created arguably the weirdest of them all. Excerpted from The Amazing World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Journey Through the Mesozoic Era by James Kuether All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
