The mistaken extinction
Subtitle: dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds
By: Lowell Dingus, Timothy Rowe.
Contributors: Rowe, Timothy, 1953-
Publisher: W.H. Freeman
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Dinosaurs.; Extinction (Biology); Birds -- Origin.
Description: For centuries, science has been searching for clues to the disappearance of the dinosaurs without answering a critical question - Are all the dinosaurs really extinct? In The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds, crackerjack paleontologists Lowell Dingus, President of Infoquest, a nonprofit education and research foundation, and former Director of the Fossil Hall Renovation at the American Museum of Natural History and Timothy Rowe, J.

Nalle Gregory Regents Professor of Geology at the University of Texas, Austin, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Texas Memorial Museum lead us on an adventurous tour through the history of our own planet Earth. And they force us to face a shocking truthThe answer to that critical question is no.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-317) and index.