The most thorough and up -to -date survey of dinosaurs available

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List of Contributors Part One: The Discovery of Dinosaurs 1. Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries / David A. E. Spalding and William A. S. Sarjeant; 2. Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs / Hugh S. Torrens; 3. European Dinosaur Hunters of the 19th and 20th Centuries / Hans-Dieter Sues; 4. North American Dinosaur Hunters / Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar; 5. The Search for Dinosaurs in Asia / Corwin Sullivan, David W. E. Hone, and Xing Xu; 6. Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents / Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Part Two: The Study of Dinosaurs 7. Hunting for Dinosaur Bones / David D. Gillette; 8. The Osteology of the Dinosaurs / Thomas R. Holtz and M. K. Brett-Surman; 9. Reconstructing the Musculature of Dinosaurs / David W. Dilkes, John R. Hutchinson, Casey M. Holliday, and Lawrence M. Witmer; 10. Dinosaur Paleoneurology / Emily Buchholtz; 11. Taxonomy of the Dinosauria / Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman; 12. Dinosaurs and Geologic Time / James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow; 13. Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs / Ralph E. Chapman, Art Andersen, Brent H. Breithaupt, and Neffra A. Matthews; 14. Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record / Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall; 15. Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits / Kenneth Carpenter; 16. Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals / Douglas Henderson Part Three: The Clades of Dinosaurs 17. Evolution of the Archosaurs / J. Michael Parrish; 18. Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs / Michael J. Benton; 19. Theropods / Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.; 20. Birds / Darren Naish; 21. Basal Sauropodomorpha: The "Prosauropods" / Adam Yates; 22. Sauropoda / Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers; 23. Stegosaurs / Peter M. Galton; 24. Ankylosaurs / Kenneth Carpenter; 25. Marginocephalia / Peter Makovicky; 26. Ornithopods / Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett Part Four: Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs 27. Land Plants as a Source of Food and Environment in the Age of Dinosaurs / Bruce H. Tiffney; 28. What Did Dinosaurs Eat: Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets / Karen Chin; 29. Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs / Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist; 30. Dinosaur Eggs / Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and Francois Therrien; 31. How Dinosaurs Grew/ R. E. H. Reid; 32. Engineering a Dinosaur / Donald Henderson; 33. Disease in Dinosaurs / Elizabeth Rega; 34. The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints / James O. Farlow, Ralph E. Chapman, Brent Breithaupt, and Neffra Matthews; 35. The Role of Heterochrony in Dinosaur Evolution / Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long; 36. Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs and Early Birds / John A. Ruben, Terry D. Jones, Nicholas R. Geist, Willem J. Hillenius, Amy E. Harwell, and Devon E. Quick; 37. Evidence for Avian-Mammalian Aerobic Capacity and Thermoregulation in Mesozoic Dinosaurs / Gregory S. Paul; 38. "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: The Case Updated / R. E. H. Reid Part Five: Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic 39. Principles of Biogeography / Ralph E. Molnar; 40. Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates / Nicholas C. Fraser; 41. Early Mesozoic Continental Tetrapods and Faunal Changes / Hans-Dieter Sues; 42. Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic / Matthew T. Carrano; 43. Dinosaur Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives / J. David Archibald; 44. Life after Death: Dinosaur Fossils in Human Hands / Daniel J. Chure; 45. Dinosaurs and Evolutionary Theory / Kevin Padian and Elizabeth K. Burton Appendix: Dinosaur-Related WWW Sites; Glossary; Index