Synopses & Reviews
DK Guides: Birds uses extraordinary photography and expertly written text to show behavior, habitats, and social structures of almost every bird. DK Guides: Dinosaurs brings dinosaurs and their strange world back to life in astonishing detail. DK Guides: Mammals is an all-star gathering of apes, elephants, whales, bears, cats, dogs, and more. DK Guides: Savage Earth is a remarkable account of our planet's structure and the process that shaped it.
Synopsis
How fast could a T-Rex run? What dinosaur is known as the Jurassic giraffe? Go back to a time when dinosaurs roamed and ruled the earth and discover the excitement and danger of the prehistoric age! From the award-winning DK Guides series, DK Guide to Dinosaurs is packed with information, pictures and digital images that bring these amazing creatures to life.
Table of Contents
What is a dinosaur? -- Prehistoric earth -- Size and scale -- Getting around -- Feet and footprints -- Up in the air -- Below the waves -- Ocean cruisers -- Migration -- Jurassic giraffes -- Cretaceous cows -- Hunting in packs -- Arms and claws -- Killer instinct -- Strange diets -- Dividing the spoils -- A tail of defense -- From head to tail -- Suits of armor -- Color and camouflage -- Winning a mate -- Heads and skulls -- Extraordinary eggs -- End of an era -- Dinobirds -- Fossils -- Dinodetectives -- Reconstructing the past -- Dinodata -- Types of dinosaur -- Index.