num_pages: 285
description: Were in a golden age of discovery  and the fossils coming to light show dinosaurs were stranger bigger scarier and more diverse than we ever imagined. From outback Australia to the Gobi Desert and the savanna of Madagascar award-winning science writer John Pickrell sets out on a world tour of new discoveries and meets the fossil hunters leading the charge. Discover the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron an aquatic crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex the Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it was heavier than two commercial jet airliners. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? Did they all have feathers? And what do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies radically transforming our understanding of the distant past.
language: English
title: Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew
publisher: NewSouth