Billerica Public Library

Dinosaurs of darkness, in search of the lost polar world, Thomas Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Dinosaurs of darkness

bibliography

1127064553

Thomas Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich

Life of the past

in search of the lost polar world

"Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who have played crucial roles in their discovery, describe how they and others collected the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm and how painstaking laboratory work and analyses continue to unlock the secrets of the polar dinosaurs. This scientific adventure makes for a fascinating story: it begins with one destination in mind and ends at another, arrived at by a most roundabout route, down byways and back from dead ends. Dinosaurs of Darkness is a personal, absorbing account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard and rewarding it is to mine the knowledge of this remarkable life of the past. The award-winning first edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest discoveries and interpretations, along with over 100 new photographs and charts, many in color"--, Provided by publisher

Dinosaur Cove -- The crossing of the Rubicon -- Back to Dinosaur Cove -- Interlude -- Underground at Dinosaur Cove -- New explorations -- Restoring life of the past -- New explorations -- Other eggs, other baskets -- An unexpected surprise -- Getting through the winter -- Multiple working hypotheses -- Showing off the polar dinosaurs from Australia exhibitions and popular outreach -- The other hemisphere -- Where are we now; where are we going? -- Afterthoughts -- Appendix : list of excavators, 1984-2019