Dinosaur Impressions
Subtitle: Postcards from a Paleontologist
Contributors: Kevin Padian (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521779302
Subjects: Palaeontology; Paleontology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures; Fossils; Science / Paleontology; Taquet, Philippe
First sentence: THERE IS A PLACE on this Earth where, simply by hopping out of your car, you risk suddenly finding yourself nose to nose with a dinosaur: a dinosaur embedded in the desert, whose spinal column, disengaged by the gritty winds from the friable sandstones that have encased it for 110 million years, is separating cleanly from the horizon between earth and sky.