Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles

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Ecology and Behaviour of Mesozoic Reptiles Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
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Pages: 219 Illustrations and other contents: 129 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 219 p. 129 illus. Language: English ISBN: 9783642061240 Categories: , , , , , , , ,

This richly illustrated book clothes the skeletons of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles with flesh, and shows how these fascinating animals evolved and probably lived. Expert author John L. Cloudsley-Thompson synthesizes current views on ecology, physiology and behaviour, and outlines the various hypotheses that have been proposed to explain their extinction. Numerous beautiful drawings of the animals and their environment illustrate this exciting monograph.

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From the reviews: "... This book offers a very reader-friendly introduction to the surprising detail that can be recovered from the fossil record. Zoologist John Cloudsley-Thompson outlines the reptilian lifesyles associated with marine, aerial and terrestrial environments, and looks at the different fossil groups that occupied them.  .... his biological viewpoint and language will be welcomed by many. " (BBC Wildlife Magazine) "This book offers a very reader-friendly introduction to the surprising detail that can be recovered from the fossil record. … The author, an expert in living amphibians and reptiles … . his biological viewpoint and language will be welcomed by many." (Douglas Palmer, BBC Wildlife Magazine, Vol. 23 (6), June, 2005)