Publisher's Synopsis
Books on dinosaurs have generally arranged them in terms of theirclassification or according to when they lived. This major new booklooks at dinosaurs from a historical perspective, from the earliestscrappy finds and best guesses of the early 1800s tothe spectacular key discoveries that changed people's minds and broughtdinosaurs alive in the public consciousness.
Key finds for eachcentury are examined in chronological order, with information about thedinosaurs themselves interwoven with accounts of their actual discoveryand the extraordinary scientists and explorers who found them. On thisfascinating journey, we come back to the same sorts of dinosaurs morethan onceas new discoveries changed ideas on their appearance, biology orbehaviour. The amazing new dicoveries in China and South America in thelast few years are fully documented, as are the major new finds of the21st century.
