Can I read Dinosaur Tracks on EtoBox?

Dinosaur Tracks by Tony Thulborn (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dinosaur Tracks about?

Ten years ago a book about dinosaur tracks would have appealed to a handful of specialists. Today, it is likely to attract wider interest, in the wake of some major controversies about the natural history of dinosaurs. Few readers will be completely unaware of those spirited debates about 'cold~blooded' versus 'warm~blooded' dinosaurs, and eyebrows are no longer raised at the suggestion that dinosaurs may still be alive and kicking - in the guise of birds. Issues such as these have prompted many biologists and palaeontologists to take a serious second look at the everyday lives and habits of dinosaurs, and in doing so they have begun to turn their attention to the long~neglected study of fossil tracks - the direct testimony of dinosaur behaviour. This resurgence of interest in dinosaur tracks might legitimately be described as a renaissance, and its extent may be gauged from the success of the First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, held in May 1986 at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque. The proceedings of that symposium, which attracted no fewer than 60 contributions from researchers in 14 coun~ tries, were published recently by Cambridge Un

Who reads Dinosaur Tracks?

Author

Tony Thulborn (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400904095

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Biology, Stem