The Handy Dinosaur Answer Book. Patricia Barnes-Svarney

      

      About the Authors

      Thomas Eugene Svarney and Patricia Barnes-Svarney have backgrounds in the physical sciences. Svarney is currently a nonfiction writer and researcher; Barnes-Svarney is a nonfiction and science fiction/mystery writer. Research for their books has led them to all corners of the world—from Meteor Crater, Arizona, and dinosaur digs in Colorado to naturalists studies in Europe, and even weather research at the South Pole.

      Barnes-Svarney has written several books, including the award-winning bestseller, New York Public Library Science Desk Reference, and Book-of-the-Month pick Asteroid: Earth Destroyer or New Frontier? She has more than 350 article credits in such magazines as Popular Science, Air & Space, and Weatherwise. Together, Svarney and Barnes-Svarney have co-authored many adult science books, including four for Visible Ink’s “Handy Answer Book” series (Dinosaurs, Oceans, Geology, and Math), as well as A Paranoid’s Ultimate Survival Guide and Skies of Fury: Weather Weirdness around the World.

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Barnes-Svarney, Patricia L.

       The handy dinosaur answer book/Patricia Barnes-Svarney and Thomas E. Svarney. — 2nd ed.

       p. cm.

       Includes bibliographical references and index.

       ISBN 978-1-57859-218-0

       1. Dinosaurs—Miscellanea. I. Svarney, Thomas E. II. Title.

       QE861.4.S83 2010

       567.9—dc22

      2009032573

      Printed in the Thailand

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

       INTRODUCTION

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       FORMING FOSSILS

       In the Beginning

       Beginnings of Life

       Geologic Time

       Time Periods

       First Fossils

       Dinosaur Fossils

       EVOLUTION OF THE DINOSAURS

       Dinosaur Ancestors

       Dinosaurs First Appear

       TRIASSIC PERIOD

       Continents during the Triassic Period

       Triassic Dinosaurs