My Beloved Brontosaurus
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My Beloved Brontosaurus

On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs

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My Beloved Brontosaurus

On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs

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About This Book

A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013One of Publishers Weekly 's Top Ten Spring Science BooksA Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic Brian Switek enriches the childlike sense of wonder these amazing creatures instill in us. Investigating the latest discoveries in paleontology, he breathes new life into old bones.Switek reunites us with these mysterious creatures as he visits desolate excavation sites and hallowed museum vaults, exploring everything from the sex life of Apatosaurus and T. rex 's feather-laden body to just why dinosaurs vanished. (And of course, on his journey, he celebrates the book's titular hero, " Brontosaurus "—who suffered a second extinction when we learned he never existed at all—as a symbol of scientific progress.)With infectious enthusiasm, Switek questions what we've long held to be true about these beasts, weaving in stories from his obsession with dinosaurs, which started when he was just knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Endearing, surprising, and essential to our understanding of our own evolution and our place on Earth, My Beloved Brontosaurus is a book that dinosaur fans and anyone interested in scientific progress will cherish for years to come.

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Publisher
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year
2013
ISBN
9781466836761
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Geology & Earth Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Prologue: My Dinosaur Life
  7. 1. Dragons of the Prime
  8. 2. The Secret of Dinosaur Success
  9. 3. Big Bang Theory
  10. 4. The Dinosaurs, They Are a-Changin’
  11. 5. Jurassic Thunder
  12. 6. Dinosaur Society
  13. 7. Dinosaur Feathers
  14. 8. Hadrosaur Harmonics and Tyrannosaur Tastes
  15. 9. In the Bones
  16. 10. Dinosaurs Undone
  17. Epilogue: My Beloved “Brontosaurus”
  18. Notes
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Index
  21. Also by Brian Switek
  22. Praise for My Beloved Brontosaurus
  23. A Note About the Author
  24. Copyright