National Geographic Kids Ultimate Dinopedia, Second Edition
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
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK DINOSAUR DICTIONARY SIZES This book is full of information about dinosaurs Here you will learn about all of the elements that make up each page and how they help you learn about these amazing animals This book is divided into four sections Discovering Dinosaurs a collection of spreads that gives general information about dinosaurs Ornithischians and Saurischians two sections that contain profiles of all the best known dinosaurs and the Dino Dictionary a listing of basic facts for hundreds of dinosaurs SMALL up to 15 feet 5 m long BIG 15 to 30 feet 5 to 10 m long DISCOVERING DINOSAURS SECTION WHAT IS A DINOSAUR GIANT 30 to 65 feet 10 to 25 m long GIGANTIC more than 65 feet 25 m long The text provides basic information you need to know to understand the topic being discussed Colorful illustrations help to illuminate the text and bring the information to life Fact bubbles and sidebars add a layer of fun and interesting information to give you a more in depth look at each topic
dinos Colorful illustrations give you an idea of what each profiled dinosaur might have looked like The name of each dinosaur appears clearly at the top of each page and a pronunciation guide helps you sound out each dinosaur name PROFILES SECTIONS HERRERA SAURUS The tabs in the top right hand corner of each profile spread help you navigate through the book Each tab tells you which section you are in and which group a dinosaur belongs to BIG MOUTH BIG MEAL An introduction to each dinosaur appears in the main text Here you will read about everything from how a dinosaur was found to who its worst enemies were Fact bubbles add a layer of information that gives you a closer look at each dinosaur Sometimes pictures are included to illustrate the fact Captions describe each illustration and provide an extra layer of information about habitat eating habits body armor and more Fact boxes provide at a glance information about each dinosaur Each box includes the dinosaur's name and its meaning when it lived which period where it was found fossils that have been discovered and its size measured in length The dinosaur comparison key illustrates how big dinosaurs were compared to a kid four feet six inches 1 4 ml tall DINO DICTIONARY The dinosaur dictionary is arranged alphabetically to make it easy for you to quickly find the dinosaur you are looking for The color coding in each row shows the dinosaur family group For a complete key see p 234 For more information see the dinosaur family tree on pp 22 23 The dinosaurs in the dictionary are not silhouetted individually because often not enough is known about them to create a full body shape To give a sense of their size they have been grouped to correspond to the categories outlined in the chart on p 8 Look for the length of each dinosaur and then refer to the chart on p 8 for a sense of how you might have measured up to the different kinds of
