Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
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Brian Ford J.. Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
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Contents
Preface
1
Dinosaurs and the Ancients
2
Emerging from the Shadows
3
The Public Eruption
4
Great American Discoveries
5
Drifting Continents
6
Reptile Dysfunction
7
How Microbes Made the World
8
Wading with Dinosaurs
9
Copulating Colossus
10
Truth Will Out
11
The Life and Death of Dinosaurs
Notes
Picture Section
Index
About the Publisher
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Title Page
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Georges Cuvier published this refined engraving as ‘The Mosasaurus of Maastricht, Huge skull found in a quarry at Fort St Peter near Maastricht, Netherlands, in 1780’ in his book The Animal Kingdom published in London by Whitaker & Co, 1830.
Another idea that was slowly emerging was that the prehistoric climate had also changed over time. The evidence first emerged from the remote villages of Switzerland, where the local people used to say that the gigantic boulders they found scattered along the valleys were signs that glaciers had once extended further down from the mountains. Pierre Martel, an engineer from Geneva, visited these villages in 1742 and later wrote about these stories. Perhaps the landscape and the climate had once been very different. At the time, this was an unpalatable prospect.34
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