National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia, Second Edition

National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia, Second Edition — page 5
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