Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (818 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080186481X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Where's the dinos? I was really excited to find this book had been rereleased, and grabbed it the minute I saw it. It has a good reputation, and I had liked Jacob's "Lone Star Dinosaurs". Unfortunately, only about half the book is actually about dinosaurs.A person writing about dinosaurs may have a scientific duty to make the point that dinosaurs were not alone in their world and a moral obligation to discuss the indigenous population if they're describing a dig in a third world country. I can even sympathise with the fact that Jacobs found the giant crocodile and early mammals his expeditions found as fasci. Five Stars Amazon Customer Great!
During five digging seasons in Malawi and three in Cameroon, Jacobs found the remains of two meat-eating theropods, two herbivorous sauropods, an odd crocodile about the size of a Chihuahua, and rare early mammals. Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaursLouis Jacobs reopened paleontologists' eyes to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. Now in paperback, Quest for the African Dinosaurs includes Jacobs' new introduction, which discusses recent developments in paleontological research in Africa.
This fine book is an important volume for dinosaur fans. Taking readers on-site to observe excavation and field work, he elucidates the process of dinosaur identification and the intricacies of their anatomies. Later, visiting a fossil bed in Cameroon's Koum Basin, he notes that the African fossil record covers a great deal of dinosaur history but is frustratingly spotty and incomplete. . From Publishers Weekly Excavating in the highlands above Africa's Lake Malawi, paleontologist Jacobs unearthed the remains of a strange crocodile and three dinosa