TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 Like a Lizard 5 DIGGING DEEPER The Bernissart Skeletons 10 CHAPTER 2 Giant Grazers 13 CHAPTER 3 Early Cretaceous Life 21 CHAPTER 4 Current Questions 27 Focus on Iguanodon 30 Glossary 31 To Learn More 32 Index 32
CHAPTER 1 LIKE A LIZARD In the 1820s Gideon Mantell came upon some curious fossils Mantell was an English doctor and amateur fossil hunter How he got the fossils is a bit of a mystery His wife Mary Ann might have found the fossils beside a road Or local workers might have found the fossils in a quarry and brought them to Mantell Mantell wrote this letter soon after receiving the fossils 5
