The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional palaeontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features approximately 100 new dinosaur species and 200 new and updated illustrations, bringing readers up to the minute on the latest discoveries and research that are radically transforming what we know about dinosaurs and their world.

Written and illustrated by acclaimed dinosaur expert Gregory Paul, this stunningly beautiful book includes detailed species accounts of all the major dinosaur groups. It offers nearly 700 colour and black-and-white images—skeletal drawings, "life" studies, scenic views, and other illustrations that depict the full range of dinosaurs, from small feathered creatures to whale-sized supersauropods.

Paul's extensively revised introduction delves into dinosaur history and biology, the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs, the origin of birds, and the history of dinosaur palaeontology, as well as giving a taste of what it might be like to travel back in time to the era when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs now extensively revised and expanded, covers nearly 750 dinosaur species, including scores of newly discovered ones. It provides startling new perspectives on the famed Brontosaurus and Tyrannosaurus.

Features include nearly 700 colour and black-and-white drawings and figures, including life studies, scenic views, and skull and muscle drawings. The guide also includes colour paleo-distribution maps and a colour timeline.

This book describes the anatomy, physiology, locomotion, reproduction, and growth of dinosaurs, as well as the origin of birds and the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs.