It never did, and now Crichton as much as anyone has assured that it won't anytime soon. The Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs will surely keep any dinophile occupied for weeks. John Horner, Paul Sereno, Mark Norell, Martin Lockley, and the editors themselves, to name a few. The nine general subject areas include kinds of and groups of dinosaurs, their biology, environments, and geological context, plus famous fossil sites, expeditions, museums or research institutions, and techniques used to study the prehistoric beasts. The entries range in length from one paragraph to several pages.
Longer articles tackle broad thematic issues.
Each entry ends with a bibliography for anyone wishing to excavate further. It's easy to take the coastal counties north of San Francisco for granted. But its no accident that minutes after crossing the Golden Gate space opens up and time slows down. It could easily have been otherwise, as Harold Gilliam reminds us in his foreword to Martin Griffin's Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast . San Fransisco could have gone the way of Los Angeles after WW II, sprawling out in every direction.