The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Paul's extensively revised introduction delves into dinosaur history and biology, the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, the origin of birds, and the history of dinosaur paleontology, as well as giving a taste of what it might be like to travel back in time to the era when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION
• Preface
• HISTORY OF DISCOVERY AND RESEARCH
• WHAT IS A DINOSAUR?
• DATING DINOSAURS
• THE EVOLUTION OF DINOSAURS AND THEIR WORLD
• EXTINCTION
• AFTER THE AGE OF DINOSAURS
• BIOLOGY
• General Anatomy
• Skin, Feathers, and Color
• Respiration and Circulation
• Digestive Tracts
• Senses
• Vocalization
• Disease and Pathologies
• BEHAVIOR
• Brains, Nerves, and Intelligenc
• Social Activities
• Reproduction
• GROWTH
• ENERGETICS
• GIGANTISM
• MESOZOIC OXYGEN
• THE EVOLUTION—AND LOSS — OF AVIAN FLIGHT
• DINOSAUR SAFARI
• IF DINOSAURS HAD SURVIVED
• DINOSAUR CONSERVATION
• WHERE DINOSAURS ARE FOUND
• USING THE GROUP AND SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS
• Group and Species Accounts
• DINOSAURS
• THEROPODS
• BASO-THEROPODS
• AVEPODS
• BASO-AVEPODS
• AVEROSTRANS
• TETANURANS
• AVETHEROPODS
• MANIRAPTORS
• PARAVIANS
• SAUROPODOMORPHS
• PROSAUROPODS
• SAUROPODS
• ORNITHISCHIANS
• BASO-ORNITHISCHIANS
• GENASAURS
• ADDITIONAL READING