The history of giant beasts that flew, swam, and trod in what is now Texas Lone Star Dinosaurs by Louis Jacobs Illustrations by Karen Carr Dinosaurs make science exciting. They show us how the earth has changed over eons. Our current period of geologic time, the Cenozoic era, has lasted a mere 66 million years nearly 100 million years shorter than the Mesozoic reign of the dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs are as much a part of Texas history as people possibly more.
Lone Star Dinosaurs tells the history of these gigantic reptiles in Texas and the accounts of people who found their fossilized remains. Texas dinosaurs, whose remains have been found in the Panhandle, Central Texas, and Big Bend, included representatives from every basic dinosaur group. Dinosaurs covered in Lone Star Dinosaurs include Pleurocoelus, Alamosaurus, Tenontosaurus, Quezalcoatus , which flew like a bird, and last, but never least, Tyrannosaurus rex . Lone Star Dinosaurs provides a guide to all the dinosaurs that roamed the state, tells of exciting fossil discoveries, relates the similarities of dinosaurs to present-day animals, and looks in depth at the ways dinosaurs likely became extinct. Engagingly written and beautifully illustrated, Lone Star Dinosaurs will interest people of all ages fascinated by ancient history or natural science.