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1) Sabertooth
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
With only ancient bones--and massive teeth--to guide them, scientists are learning amazing facts about these enormous prehistoric cats.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs - without using prehistoric DNA. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hungry Tomato
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follow Ackerley the Acanthostega through the Cretaceous period, 145 to 66 million years ago, when the mightiest dinosaurs stalked the planet. Watch them seek prey, battle enemies, and finally face mass extinction.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
DVD edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's a mystery on a global scale: five times in Earth's past, life has been nearly extinguished, the vast majority of plants and animals annihilated in a geologic instant. What triggered these dramatic events? And what might they tell us about the fate of our world? Joins scientists around the globe as they unravel the mysteries of two of the most dramatic mass extinction.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life's losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage for the world as we know it now. Picture yourself...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join world-renowned paleontologists and travel the globe to unearth some of the lesser-known but most surprising members of the dinosaur family, such as Mamenchisaurus, whose neck alone was longer than the rest of its body; Chasmosaurus, adorned with a fashionable crown of frilly spikes; Spinosaurus, with massive extensions from its vertebrae that could have supported a sail or hump; and Parasaurolophus, whose tube-like head crest look odd to us,...
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Since the Earth's creation 4.5 billion years ago, the planet has been struck by a series of catastrophes, each pushing life to the edge of extinction. Again and again, dinosaurs found themselves victims of these catastrophes, but from each disaster came new life. While a dominant species was wiped out, hardier creatures survived and thrived, moving into the vacuum left by the extinction. In turn, these gigantic creatures took over the planet until...
Author
Publisher
J. Henry Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Discusses the effect of changing oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere on evolution and mass extinctions, and presents the theory that saurischian dinosaurs were able to weather two mass extinctions because of a new, more efficient respiratory system, which was in turn inherited by their descendants the birds.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A major discovery shows how life came back after an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. With exclusive access to a fossil trove from the key first million years after impact, the film charts the rise of a new living world from the ashes.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the impact from an asteroid 66 million years ago resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs. Recreates the conditions on the surface of the planet in the minutes, hours, and months following the impact.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sixty-six million years ago, a gigantic asteroid slammed into Earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. There's strong evidence of the asteroid impact, but no fossils of a dinosaur killed in the event have ever been found. Now, at a dig site in North Dakota, scientists have uncovered a wealth of fossilized creatures that could reveal a more detailed picture of the devastating day the asteroid hit. Following a trail of remarkably well-preserved fossils, including...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, and even how they cared for their young. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from...
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