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Tables of Contents for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dinosaurs
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Part 1: Boning Up on the Big Lizards
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1 The Dinosaur Underground Fossils tell us pretty much everything we know about dinosaurs.
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2 Using Rocks as Clocks Layers of sedimentary stone tell the story of time.
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3 Rising to the Occasion Dinosaurs were the crowning achievement of evolution in their day.
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4 Sorting Out the Saurians Dinosaur classification is a science unto itself.
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Part 2: The Lizard Butts
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5 Horny Devils Killer dinos called ceratosaurs add horns to the tooth-and-claw arsenal.
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6 Little Killers and Peckish Non-Predators Small Predators rely on speed and agility rather than size and strength.
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7 Claws Celebres The world-famous raptors show off their star qualities.
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8 Pumped-Up Predators The mighty carnosaurs took Mesozoic hunthing to a new level.
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9 The Royals The tyrannosaurs command respect, even if they are no longer the world's largest known predators.
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10 Big Browsers No land creature has ever grown larger than sauropod dinosaurs.
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Part 3: The Bird Butts
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11 The Tooth Patrol Teeth reveal the clues to a last way of life.
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12 Dinoducks The duckbilled dinosaurs show that you don't have to be a mammal to care for your young.
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13 All the Frills The largest skulls on record belong to the ceratopsian dinosaurs.
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14 Of Arms and the Dinosaur Stegosaurs and ankylosaurs look like they were designed in a medieval armory.
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Part 4: They Also Ran, Crawled, Flew, and Swam
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15 First in Flight The pteranodons really helped lizards get off the ground.
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16 Surf and Turf Other creatures by land and sea shared the planet with the dinosaurs.
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17 Warm Fuzzies The sweetest story ever told is the evolution of mammals.
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Part 5: Famous Finds
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18 Lost and Found The first known dinosaur fossils didn't seem to fit in with the scheme of things.
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19 Fossil Frontiers Bone cowboys Cope and Marsh kept up a lifelong showdown.
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20 Dinosaurs International Indiana Jones took a page out of the history of global fossil hunting.
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21 On the Cutting Edge High-tech approaches are changing the way fossils are dug up and studied.
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Part 6: Earthshaking Theories
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22 Recalled Models Over the years quite a few theoretical lemons had to go back to the fossil factory.
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23 Body Heat The question of warm-vs. cold-bloodedness is a hot topic.
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24 Dinosaurs of a Feather? The flap about bird ancestry is finally getting resolved.
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25 Real Gone Evidence mounts that asteroids from space contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs.
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Part 7: Paleo Fever
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26 Novel Ideas People encounter dinosaurs in classic novels and comic books.
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27 From Limestone to Limelight Movies from king kong to Jurassic Park show why dinosaurs are a timeless topic.
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28 Kid Stuff Dinosaurs can share the love or eat you all up!
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29 A See 'Em in Museums A list of the largest dinosaur displays in North America.
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B Dinosaurus A compendium of dinosaur names, including descriptions and pronunciation guides.
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C Paleo-Glossary Definitions of technical terms used by dinosaur scientists.
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D Relatives Under the Skin Tables that show evolutionary relationships among dinosaurs and their contemporaries.
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E Digging Deeper Books for exploring dinosaurs further.
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Index
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