By Anthony J. Martin
ISBN-10: 1480448028
ISBN-13: 9781480448025
What if we awakened one morning the entire dinosaur bones on the earth have been long gone? How might we all know those iconic animals had a165-million yr historical past on the earth, and had tailored to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues will be left to figure not just their presence, but in addition to profit approximately their intercourse lives, elevating of younger, social lives, strive against, and who ate who? What would it not take for us to grasp how briskly dinosaurs moved, whether or not they lived underground, climbed bushes, or went for a swim? Welcome to the area of ichnology, the research of strains and hint fossils corresponding to tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and different vestiges of habit and the way via those awesome clues, we will be able to discover and intuit the wealthy and intricate lives of dinosaurs. With a distinct, detective-like method, analyzing the forensic clues of those long-extinct animals that depart a far richer legacy than bones, Martin brings the wild global of the Mesozoic to lifestyles for the twenty-first century reader."
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