Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History

Author Biography

David E. Fastovsky is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Rhode Island, where he taught paleontology, sedimentology, and Earth History for thirty-seven years, during which time he carried out geological and paleontological fieldwork all over the world. He is an authority on the Mesozoic environments in which non-avian dinosaurs roamed, as well as on their ultimate extinction, having published well over 100 professional papers on these and other, related topics. Fastovsky is an engaging, sought-after speaker and a recipient of the GSA Distinguished Service Award. David B. Weishampel is Emeritus Professor at the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on dinosaur evolution and how dinosaurs' function, and he is particularly interested in herbivorous dinosaurs and the dinosaur record of Europe. He has been senior editor of the highly respected volume, The Dinosauria and has contributed to a number of popular publications. He was recently honoured in an International Symposium on duck-billed dinosaurs, dedicated to him and his research. John Sibbick has been creating illustrations of extinct life forms and their environments for over thirty years, producing numerous books on dinosaurs, as well as pterosaurs, and general books on prehistoric life. His work has appeared in scientific magazines, television documentaries and museums, and featured on a set of stamps depicting dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles for the United Kingdom's Royal Mail. Fabio Manucci is a paleoartist and scientific researcher. He creates reconstructions across a range of media, from traditional book illustration to digital sculpture and 3D animation for museums and documentaries. He took part in the Spinosaurus excavations in Morocco and produced both the skeletal model (displayed at the Field Museum in Chicago) and the animated 3D reconstruction, for which he received the Lanzendorf–National Geographic Paleoart Prize in 2021.