"In just the past twenty years, we have learned more about dinosaurs than we did in the previous two centuries. This book describes the extraordinary advances in palaeontology that are beginning to solve many of the mysteries surrounding these marvelous prehistoric creatures, from their ways of communicating to their mating habits, the color of their skin, their migration patterns and extinction. How did dinosaurs rear their young? What did they eat?...

Investigates fossils and how they were formed, examines how fossils can be dated through a number of ways, and finds out what conditions are needed to preserve the various kinds of fossils.

The final episode explores new, bizarre and extraordinary dinos. These recent discoveries reveal the extraordinary ability of dinosaurs to adapt and survive... Feathered dinosaurs like the curious, buck-toothedEpidexipteryx took to the trees while the amazing four-winged Microraptor even conquered the air. These dinos have revolutionized our understanding, blurring the boundaries between dinosaurs and birds. Others adapted in other ways, the bizarre...

This program focuses on the killer dinosaurs. We begin by journeying back 150 million years to the Jurassic period, a time when the first giant killers stalked the earth like the fabled Allosaurus. But killers weren't confined to the land, recent discoveries have revealed an astonishing new hunter in the oceans, a predator that dwarfs almost all others; Predator X. From the oceans to the land these new giant killers posed the greatest of threats with...

"Renowned paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte charts the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' successor: mammals, which emerged from the shadows to rule the Earth"--

Packed with striking photography, Eyewitness Fossil explores the creatures and plants that lived long ago. Become an eyewitness to the natural treasures found in rocks in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of all things fossils. Children will be mesmerized by the bones, teeth, and plants from long ago that have all been turned to rock. This beautifully illustrated guide for kids aged 9+ gives an insight into how paleontologists...

"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds,...

Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.

Discusses the work of paleontologists searching in the Sahara desert for dinosaur fossils.