
The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures: The Ultimate Illustrated Reference Guide, (Paperback)
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- Comprehensive Reference: An ultimate illustrated guide detailing 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, featuring 2000 specially commissioned artworks, maps, and photographs.
- Extensive Coverage: Profiles a wide range of prehistoric life including fish, mammals, reptiles, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, amphibians, crocodiles, turtles, birds, and mosasaurs.
- Detailed Analysis: Explores the evolution of Earth's geology, animal and plant life, dinosaur classification, and development across the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous eras.
- Anatomical Insights: Includes fascinating anatomical drawings demonstrating skeletal makeup, function, movement, and lifestyle of various dinosaur types.
- Fossil Evidence: Discusses theories derived from fossil evidence regarding diet, socialization, migration patterns, and the role of dinosaur hunters and fossil excavation sites.
- Individual Entries: Each of the 1000 entries provides detailed descriptions based on scientific thinking, covering size, shape, muscle and bone structure, movement, hunting, defense, and feeding preferences.
- Visual Accuracy: Accompanied by highly detailed and technically accurate watercolor illustrations and maps indicating fossil discovery sites.
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- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreTravel & Nature
- Pages512
- Reading levelGrade 12
- SubgenreAnimals
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The ultimate illustrated reference guide to 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, with 2000 specially commissioned artworks, maps and photographs Ever since giant fossils were discovered in the western world more than 200 years ago, dinosaurs or "terrible lizards" as they were named, have captured the public imagination. New discoveries and excavations continue to make dinosaurs an endless subject of fascination, and each new find has added or confirmed a different dimension to our understanding of the world of prehistoric creatures.
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This seminal book brings together every important dinosaur find from the last two centuries and from the worldÆs richest fossil sites. The result is a comprehensive, groundbreaking book that details every kind of prehistoric creature known from the age of dinosaurs, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, reptiles, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, amphibians, crocodiles, turtles, birds and mosasaurs.
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A comprehensive introduction explains the evolution of earth's geology and the development of animal and plant life within it, culminating with the arrival of the dinosaurs. It explains the classification of dinosaurs and how they developed over the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras, from the smallest sea creature to the largest land-dwelling dinosaurs with the greatest body mass. The different habitats where dinosaurs are thought to have lived are all depicted, from deserts to lagoons, lakes, mountains, swamps and plains, together with the fossil evidence that helps to explain the presence of dinosaurs in each site.
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Fascinating anatomical drawings demonstrate the skeletal make up of the different dinosaurs - sauropods, theropods, ornithopods, and armoured dinosaurs - and explain how they functioned, moved and lived. Expert analysis of fossils has provided theories about what dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures ate; fossil footprints help explain how they socialized, whether moving in herds, or in solitary isolation; and the discovery of eggs provides theories about how dinosaurs formed colonies, migrating to different areas to rear their young. Finally the role of the dinosaur hunters is explained, with a glimpse at how fossils are excavated, and where the most important fossil sites are in the world.
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The main section of the book is an encyclopedia of 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. Every entry is clearly described according to the latest scientific thinking and is placed within the context of when it lived. Its size and shape, muscle and bone structure are detailed together with explanations of how it moved, hunted and defended itself from attack. Fossil evidence has revealed the feeding preferences of many dinosaurs and the position of jaws and teeth show how it killed and ate its prey. Current ideas about skin texture and covering are all explained. Each main entry is accompanied by a highly detailed and technically accurate watercolour illustration, and a map showing the sites where fossils have been found.
,
This unique illustrated volume, with its unparalleled combination of the latest expert research and beautiful visual reconstruction, will be an endless source of fascination and an essential family reference for school and home study.
,
The ultimate illustrated reference to 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras and beyond
,
The unique visual encyclopedia profiles all the known dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, including fish, mammals, reptiles, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, amphibians, crocodiles, turtles, birds and mosasaurs
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This seminal book brings together every important dinosaur find from the last two centuries and from the worldÆs richest fossil sites. The result is a comprehensive, groundbreaking book that details every kind of prehistoric creature known from the age of dinosaurs, including dinosaurs, fish, mammals, reptiles, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, amphibians, crocodiles, turtles, birds and mosasaurs.
,
A comprehensive introduction explains the evolution of earth's geology and the development of animal and plant life within it, culminating with the arrival of the dinosaurs. It explains the classification of dinosaurs and how they developed over the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras, from the smallest sea creature to the largest land-dwelling dinosaurs with the greatest body mass. The different habitats where dinosaurs are thought to have lived are all depicted, from deserts to lagoons, lakes, mountains, swamps and plains, together with the fossil evidence that helps to explain the presence of dinosaurs in each site.
,
Fascinating anatomical drawings demonstrate the skeletal make up of the different dinosaurs - sauropods, theropods, ornithopods, and armoured dinosaurs - and explain how they functioned, moved and lived. Expert analysis of fossils has provided theories about what dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures ate; fossil footprints help explain how they socialized, whether moving in herds, or in solitary isolation; and the discovery of eggs provides theories about how dinosaurs formed colonies, migrating to different areas to rear their young. Finally the role of the dinosaur hunters is explained, with a glimpse at how fossils are excavated, and where the most important fossil sites are in the world.
,
The main section of the book is an encyclopedia of 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures. Every entry is clearly described according to the latest scientific thinking and is placed within the context of when it lived. Its size and shape, muscle and bone structure are detailed together with explanations of how it moved, hunted and defended itself from attack. Fossil evidence has revealed the feeding preferences of many dinosaurs and the position of jaws and teeth show how it killed and ate its prey. Current ideas about skin texture and covering are all explained. Each main entry is accompanied by a highly detailed and technically accurate watercolour illustration, and a map showing the sites where fossils have been found.
,
This unique illustrated volume, with its unparalleled combination of the latest expert research and beautiful visual reconstruction, will be an endless source of fascination and an essential family reference for school and home study.
,
The ultimate illustrated reference to 1000 dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras and beyond
,
The unique visual encyclopedia profiles all the known dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures, including fish, mammals, reptiles, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, amphibians, crocodiles, turtles, birds and mosasaurs
,
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- The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures: The Ultimate Illustrated Reference Guide, (Paperback)
- Author: Southwater Publishing
- ISBN: 9781846812095
- Format: Paperback
- Publication Date: 2014-07-07
- Page Count: 512
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The book is not a story but a really detailed book about different dinosaurs. I highly recommend it if you little has a desire to learn all the details about many different dinosaurs. I would not recommend it for causal reading and a traditional tale of dinosaurs.
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Feb 11, 2026
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I bought this for my dino enthusiast toddler and he loves it! It's great for dad and I too. It has nice illustrations in it and the descriptions are easy to understand and explain. The price for it is good, great quality, and it arrived on time.
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Aug 12, 2025
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A Great book for dinosaur collectors
this is a great soft cover 1.5 inch thich book of dinosaurs. great reference guide for collecting dinosaurs. show family trees of dinosaurs - a great find - educational
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