National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia, Second Edition
80 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 6 Introduction 7 How to Use This Book 8 PART ONE DISCOVERING DINOSAURS 10 What Is a Dinosaur 12 Dinosaur Worlds 14 Dinosaur Habitats 16 How Fossils Form Life on Earth Dinosaur Family Tree 22 Courtship and Mating 24 Hatching Bringing Up Baby 28 Migration and Herding 30 Plant Eater Diet 32 Predator or Scavenger 34 Defenses 36 Dino Weapons 38 Great Dinosaur Hunters Dinosaur Finds 40 42 Out on a Dig In the Lab 44 Great Dinosaur Mistakes New Dino Discoveries 46 48 Other Animals From Dinosaur Time 50 The Extinction Mystery 52 Ankylosaurus 72 Dracorex Pachycephalosaurus 74 76 Micropachycephalosaurus 78 Psittacosaurus Protoceratops Styracosaurus Triceratops Pentaceratops Kosmoceratops Hualianceratops 82 84 86 88 90 92 Leaellynasaura 94 Muttaburrasaurus 96 Camptosaurus 18 20 98 KOSM0CERATOPS pp 90 91 PART TWO THE ORNITHISCHIANS 54 Families Heterodontosaurus Scutellosaurus 56 58 60 Huayangosaurus 62 Stegosaurus 64 Gastonia 66 Kunbarrasaurus 68 Tarchia 70 CONCHORAPTOR pp 176 177
FOREWORD DINOSAURS ARE AMONG THE MOST EXCITING INSPIRING AND INTERESTING ANIMALS THAT HAVE EVER EXISTED They fascinate us with their amazing body shapes incredible sizes and the way in which they must have lived An excellent and constantly improving fossil record means that dinosaurs provide us with brilliant illustrations of how evolution occurs how animals change over time as they adapt to new environments and conditions and as they take to new lifestyles Over the past few decades the dinosaur story has become ever more exciting as those scientists who study them have found more and more evidence that dinosaurs are not extinct but that DR DARREN NAISH Dr Naish excavates a newly they live on as birds discovered dinosaur bone in For these reasons and others dinosaurs are the Sahara in Morocco especially important They introduce people to the natural world and to an appreciation of science in general By reading this book and by learning about dinosaurs we hope you will become excited about the work dinosaur experts do and the discoveries they make And remember There are still so many things yet to discover DARREN NAISH PALEONTOLOGIST
INTRODUCTION IF YOU LIKE DINOSAURS YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT BOOK The new Dinopedia is the most complete kids dinosaur encyclopedia yet Some of what you read will be news to you even if you know a lot about dinosaurs Why We live in the greatest time for dinosaur discovery More than half of all the dinosaurs we know about have been discovered in the past 30 years Come meet hundreds of these incredible creatures from your old pal Tyrannosaurus to several dinosaurs so newly named that they have never appeared in a book before DINO DON LESSEM Here you'll find dinosaurs with wings like those Dino Don holds a live raptor a golden eagle in Mongolia of bats dinosaurs covered in feathers dinosaurs that lived in holes and dinosaurs that climbed trees Jungle dinosaurs Desert dinosaurs Dinosaurs that lived at what is now the South Pole You'll also discover fascinating information about dino history and the incredible worlds in which they lived And it all comes to life with dinosaur artist Franco Tempesta's stunning paintings I hope you have as much fun reading about these amazing animals as I did writing about them DINO DON LESSEM
