![]() The first, and less severe, flaw are the size comparisons. But entertaining, it is.ĭinosaurs has two major flaws that keep it from being good. To Brusatte's credit, he manages to make his writing fun to read, using words like"hypercarnivorous" and "monstrosity" to describe theropods. As examples, Acrocanthosaurus is claimed to have lived in Asia, even though fossils have only been recovered from North America. Unfortunately, there are quite a bit of inaccuracies, both due to lazy research and simply being outdated. As such, one would expect the information to be accurate. A credible source indeed, but the book was also supervised by Professor Michael Benton, another top mind in the field of Paleontology. ![]() In 2007, he, along with Paleontologist Paul Sereno, described a brand new species of predatory dinosaur, Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis. Stephen Brusatte, is a rather prolific Vertebrate Paleontologist, best known for his research on the anatomy and evolution of dinosaurs. Of note is the fact that the Jurassic and Cretaceous eras are each split into two whole chapters, middle and late. The book is divided into seven chapters, with each one having their own sub-chapter(s). There's 217 pages total, not including the glossary or index. Pretty great deal for a book so large, but how does it hold up? ![]() Costco was selling the book for a bargain price of just 19.99 back then. ![]() This massive beast was given to me as a present during Christmas of 2012. Included for scale is Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger's book Discovering Dinosaurs. ![]()
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