num_pages: 224
description: "Nature has preserved a priceless window on the past for us at Auca Mahuevo...The vision that has emerged is breathtaking.' In 1997 Luis Chiappe and Lowell Dingus made one of the most remarkable discoveries of recent times. In the desolate badlands of Patagonia they came upon the largest prehistoric nesting ground ever tens of thousands of dinosaur eggs scattered across a remote valley---some, miraculously, with the skin of the embryonic dinosaur preserved inside. What kind of dinosaurs laid these eggs and when? How were they preserved? Were they laid in nests or deposited randomly across the landscape? What kind of calamity prevented the eggs from hatching? How did the expert palaeontologists go about trying to answer some of these questions? Weaving stories of field adventures and fossil-hunting with chapters on evolutionary history and the scientific processes involved in solving the mysteries of this site, The Lost Dinosaurs tells the thrilling story of a sensational discovery and shows us a glimpse of what life was like some 800 million years ago.
language: English
title: The Lost Dinosaurs: Discovering the Astonishing Secrets of Dinosaurs
publisher: Abacus