Bizarre Dinosaurs: Some Very Strange Creatures and Why We Think They Got That Way

by Christopher Sloan

Book Overview

With state-of-the-art, digitally modeled images, fantastic photos of fossils, and up-to-date scientific interpretations, Bizarre Dinosaurs introduces dino-lovers to a group of very strange creatures indeed. The cast of characters includes Masiakasaurus, a fierce some beast whose mouth bristled with serrated, slightly hooked, forward-poking teeth; Deinocheirus with his ungainly long arms and huge triple claws; Epedendrosaurus with a tiny body and pinky...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426303300
• ISBN13: 9781426303302
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.7" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

Liked this, very informative

This book features 11 unusual and not well-known dinosaurs that each have a distinctive feature - super scary teeth, horns that jut out sideways from the shoulders, an incredibly long finger, a wide mouth - and some hypothesizing on what that feature might have been good for. Each dinosaur has its own spread with an artists representation of what it might have looked like along with a picture of some representative fossils or bones. There's also an inset information featuring when the dinosaur was named and where/when it lived. More information is given in the glossary in the back, along with a grouping of dinosaurs, both strange and familiar, from the two supercontinents they lived on (and an explanation that they didn't all live at the same time). Very informative and accessible. Every dino-loving kid, grown-up, or other should have one.