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By: Book review – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 May 2025 21:31:36 +0000

[…] Brusatte introduces the dinosauromorphs, the close evolutionary forebears of the dinosaurs. He talks us through the Triassic, when all the world was united in the supercontinent Pangaea, small dinosaurs competed with early mammal relatives, and the world was ruled by a reptilian sister group that would leave us the crocodiles. After the end-Triassic mass extinction, the dinosaurs were left standing and rose to dominance during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. We meet the sauropods, gigantic long-necked herbivores, and the various theropod carnivores that terrorised them. Two chapters introduce the tyrannosaurs and its most famous representative: Tyrannosaurus rex, which Hone details further in The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs. […]

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By: Book review – Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 22 May 2025 21:28:59 +0000

[…] We do not really know. Why are the forelimbs of Tyrannosaurus rex so much reduced? Even Hone in The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs concedes there are many explanations, none really satisfactory). Others are answered very […]

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By: smellincoffee

smellincoffee — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:13:44 +0000

This makes me realize how very long it’s been since I read anything current on dinosaurs. I checked my blog, and I haven’t visited the subject since 2011.

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