A new look at the dinosaurs
By: Alan Jack Charig.
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Copyright date: 1979
Subjects: Dinosauria.
First sentence: Most of the readers of this book will presumably be interested in dinosaurs, for it is reasonable to suppose that few of those who are not so interested would even bother to open it.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [155]

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 7; label: 1
title: What were the dinosaurs?
pagenum: 9; label: 2
title: Our changing world
pagenum: 22; label: 3
title: How dinosaurs were fossilized
pagenum: 25; label: 4
title: Fossils and time
pagenum: 34; label: 5
title: The evolutionary tree
pagenum: 42; label: 6
title: First discoveries
pagenum: 45; label: 7
title: Hunting for dinosaurs
pagenum: 59; label: 8
title: Dinosaurs as living animals
pagenum: 66; label: 9
title: Principles of classification
pagenum: 76; label: 10
title: Classification of dinosaurs
pagenum: 82; label: 11
title: Origin of dinosaurs
pagenum: 93; label: 12
title: Theropod dinosaurs: the carnivorous bipeds
pagenum: 104; label: 13
title: Sauropodomorph dinosaurs: Diplodocus and its relatives
pagenum: 110; label: 14
title: Ornithopod dinesaurs: herbivorous bipeds
pagenum: 116; label: 15
title: Horned, plated and armoured dinosaurs
pagenum: 122; label: 16
title: Warm blood and the dinosaurs
pagenum: 129; label: 17
title: Dinosaurs and birds
pagenum: 133; label: 18
title: Geographical distribution
pagenum: 141; label: 19
title: Death of the dinosaurs
pagenum: 149; title: An outline classification of the dinosaurs (and other archosaurs)
pagenum: 152; title: Acknowledgements for illustrations
pagenum: 153; title: Where to see dinosaurs
pagenum: 154; title: Suggestions for further reading
pagenum: 155; title: Index
pagenum: 156