Dinosaur Atlas A Journey Through Time to the Prehistoric World

by Jackson, Tom; Li, Maggie

• ISBN13: 9780711270398
• ISBN10: 0711270392
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-09-06
• Publisher: QEB Publishing

Summary

In this follow-on to Soccer Atlas, Space Atlas and Ocean Atlas readers will be taken on a journey to the prehistoric world!  Dinosaur Atlas is a richly informative, beautifully illustrated book for dinosaur lovers everywhere, with an exciting new global perspective. 

Take a trip through time to the prehistoric world! Stare down a Tyrannosaurus Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors’ slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Marvel at the size of the Giganotosaurus in Argentina. On this Amazing Adventure readers will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived, and why they became extinct.

• What did the world look like during the Age of Dinosaurs?
• What are fossils and how can we learn from them?
• Who was the largest and most ferocious dinosaur of all? 

This expansive guide to dinosaurs large and small answers all these questions and more as readers journey around a lost world and come face to face with dinosaurs!

Author Biography

Tom Jackson is a leading science writer who has over twenty years of experience writing books, magazine, and newspaper articles, as well as pieces for online and for television. He writes about a wide range of subjects, but his specialties are natural history, technology, and all things scientific. Previous projects include collaborations with Sir Patrick Moore, Carol Vorderman, and "rock star" scientist, Brian May.

  Maggie Li is a children's book illustrator and author based in London, UK. She is also art director at popular children's publication Okido magazine. A bit of a fact geek, Maggie loves to discover weird and wonderful things about the world around her. She is currently working on her third book.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction 
An Ever-Changing World 
Making Fossils 
Fossil Record 
Before Dinosaurs 
Coelophysis 
Plateosaurus 
Sinosaurus 
Ocean Reptiles 
Cryolophosaurus 
Megalosaurus 
Stegosaurus 
Diplodocus 
Brachiosaurus 
Archaeopteryx 
Sinornithosaurus
Nigersaurus 
Muttaburrasaurus 
Giganotosaurus 
Spinosaurus 
Maiasaura 
Therizinosaurus 
Parasaurolophus 
Velociraptor 
Quetzalcoatlus 
Triceratops and
Tyrannosaurus Rex 
Extinction 
After Dinosaurs 
The Dinosaur Family 
Glossary 
Index