From School Library Journal
Grade 4-7-Zoehfeld begins with a tale about an Oviraptor father buried by a sandstorm in a seemingly protective posture over a nest of 16 eggs 73 million years ago. She then explores changing theories of dinosaur life based on scientific discoveries-from Roy Chapman Andrews's Gobi Expedition discovery of a birdlike Oviraptor skeleton at the site of a nest of eggs in 1923 to discoveries of fossil evidence of nesting grounds of titanosaurs in Patagonia in 1998. In a concluding chapter on the future of exploration, Zoehfeld clearly points out that new discoveries may lead paleontologists to revise theories about dinosaurs and the way they lived. High-quality, color photographs of fossils of eggs and embryos and of paleontologists at work as well as line drawings and full-color paintings add to this inviting, thought-provoking book. Readers of Nic Bishop's Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs (Houghton, 2000) and Christopher Sloan's Feathered Dinosaurs (National Geographic, 2000) will be intrigued by it.
Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Carolyn Angus, The Claremont Graduate School, CA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition Relié .
Review
High-quality color photographs of fossils of eggs abd embryos and of paleontologists at works as well as line drawings and full-color paintings add to this inviting, thought-provoking book.
--Ce texte fait référence à l'édition
Relié
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