Provides information on the study and classification of dinosaurs, on each of the dinosaur groups, and on dinosaur biology and evolution. This volume concludes with a survey of dinosaurs in the media and a chronology of the history of dinosaur science. It offers an account of dinosaur paleontology for the general public.

Sumptuously illustrated, with up-to-the-minute information, it features: more than 350 illustrations, including 16 pages in full color; each chapter written by an expert in dinosaur studies; includes the latest dinosaur discoveries; new information on the warm-blooded/cold-blooded debate; new insights on the possibility of isolating dinosaur DNA; what dinosaurs ate and how we know about it; dinosaurs in the media; a time-line of the history of dinosaur science; and much, much more!

PREFACE:
James O. Farlow and M. K. Brett-Surman
PART ONE:
THE DISCOVERY OF DINOSAURS
The Earliest Discoveries: William A. S. Sarjeant
European Dinosaur Hunters: Hans-Dieter Sues
North American Dinosaur Hunters: Edwin H. Colbert
Asian Dinosaur Hunters: John R. Lavas
Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents: Thomas R.
Holtz, Jr.
PART TWO:
THE STUDY OF DINOSAURS
Hunting for Dinosaur Bones: David D. Gillette
The Osteology of the Dinosaurs: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K.Brett-Surman
The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman
Dinosaurs and Geologic Time: James O. Farlow
The Scientific Study of Dinosaurs: Ralph E. Chapman
Molecular Paleontology: Rationale and Techniques for the Study of Ancient Biomolecules: Mary Higby Schweitzer
Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits: Kenneth Carpenter
Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals: Douglas Henderson
PART THREE:
THE GROUPS OF DINOSAURS
Introduction: James O. Farlow and M. K. Brett-Surman
Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs: Hugh Torrens
Evolution of the Archosaurs: J. Michael Parrish
Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs: Michael J. Benton Theropods: Philip J. Currie
Segnosaurs (Therezinosaurs): Teresa Maryanska
Prosauropods: Jacques VanHeerden
Sauropods: John S. McIntosh, M. K. Brett-Surman, and James O. Farlow
Stegosaurs: Peter M. Galton
Ankylosaurs: Kenneth Carpenter
Marginocephalians: Catherine A. Forster and Paul C. Sereno
Ornithopods: M. K. Brett-Surman
PART FOUR:
BIOLOGY OF THE DINOSAURS
Land Plants as Food and Habitat in the Age of Dinosaurs: Bruce H. Tiffney
What Did Dinosaurs Eat? Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets:
Karen Chin
Dinosaur Combat and Courtship: Scott Sampson
Dinosaur Eggs: Karl F. Hirsch and Darla K. Zelenitsky
How Dinosaurs Grew: R. E. H. Reid
Engineering a Dinosaur: R. McN. Alexander
Dinosaurian Paleopathology: Bruce M. Rothschild
Dinosaurian Physiology: the Case for "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: R. E. H. Reid
Oxygen Isotopes in Dinosaur Bone: Reese E. Barrick, Michael K.
Stoskopf, and William J. Showers
A Blueprint for Giants: Do Living Reptiles, Birds or Mammals Provide
the Best Model for the Physiology of Large Dinosaurs? Frank V. Paladino, James R. Spotila, and Peter Dodson
New Insights into the Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs: John Ruben,
Andrew Leitch, Willem Hillenius, Nicholas Geist, and Terry Jones
The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints: James O. Farlow and Ralph E. Chapman
The Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Utility of Dinosaur Tracks: Martin G.
Lockley
PART FIVE: DINOSAUR EVOLUTION IN THE CHANGING WORLD OF THE MESOZOIC ERA
Biogeography for Dinosaurs: Ralph E. Molnar
Major Groups of Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era: Michael Morales
Continental Tetrapods of the Early Mesozoic: Faunas and Faunal Changes:
Hans-Dieter Sues
Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic: Dale A. Russell and Jose F. Bonaparte
The Extinction of the Dinosaurs: A Dialogue Between a Catastrophist and a Gradualist: Dale A. Russell and Peter Dodson
PART SIX:
DINOSAURS AND THE MEDIA
Dinosaurs and the Media: Donald F. Glut and M. K. Brett-Surman
APPENDIX:
A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF DINOSAUR PALEONTOLOGY: M. K. Brett-Surman
GLOSSARY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX