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A 2016 estimate put the number of dinosaur species living in the Mesozoic at 1,543–2,468, [24] [25] compared to the number of modern-day birds (avian dinosaurs) at 10,806 species. [26] Extinct dinosaurs, as well as modern birds, include genera that are herbivorous and others carnivorous, including seed-eaters, fish-eaters, insectivores, and ...
In the book, Edwina the dinosaur is well loved by the people of her town due to her acts of kindness. However, a boy named Reginald Von Hoobie-Doobie tries to convince everyone that dinosaurs are supposed to be extinct. Reginald even argues to Edwina herself that she should be extinct, but he eventually relents.
The book chronicles the evolution of dinosaurs, their rise as the dominant clade, and ends with an account of their extinction from the Chicxulub asteroid. It also includes a discussion of the evolution of feathered dinosaurs and birds' descent from dinosaurs, and an epilogue of sorts discussing the post-dinosaur emergence of mammals.
A group of technicians in a bar meet someone whom they assume to be a drunken down-and-out. It slowly emerges that he is an ex-university professor who has not only built a time machine but also traveled back to the Mesozoic era to see for himself what happened to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs. He becomes more belligerent as he is ...
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs was the first in the line of field guides published by Princeton University Press to be on an extinct (and thus not actually observable in the field) group of organisms. [5] The book is a reference work on dinosaurs envisioned to be "in the style of a field guide".
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The work has also received positive reviews from the Horn Book Guide, School Library Journal, and Booklist, with Booklist remarking that the work was "a good group read-aloud, even for the very young." [5] [6] In 2013 School Library Journal also listed the work as one of their "Must-have Board Books for Early Childhood Collections". [7]
These books were translated into many languages, making him influential in determining the public perception of dinosaurs in the middle of the twentieth century. However, his ideas on dinosaur anatomy, ecology and systematics were already old-fashioned in the 1930s, while his evolutionary concepts were formed during the eclipse of Darwinism .