Duck Billed Dinosaurs

"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these duck-billed dinosaurs face-to-face: Corythosaurus could honk through the top of its head! Gryposaurus had hundreds of grinding teeth! Parasaurolophus could smack enemies with its strong tail! Plus, you'll get to know Edmontosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Maiasaura, and Tsintaosaurus.

What’s up with that funny-looking dinosaur? Readers will love learning about dinosaurs that had heads that resembled today’s ducks. This book gives a detailed background of each duck-headed dinosaur from the Corythosaurus to the Edmontosaurus. Readers will learn about each dinosaur’s anatomy, behavior, and diet through accessible text, fast facts, and a colorful illustrations. This is sure to be a dynamic and exciting read that keeps budding paleontologists’ minds engaged.

A comprehensive study of the Late Cretaceous, duck-billed dinosaur, featuring insights on its origins, anatomy, and more. Hadrosaurs—also known as duck-billed dinosaurs—are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology and paleoecology from hadrosaurs than we have from any other group. In recent years, hadrosaurs have been in the spotlight. Researchers around the world have been studying new specimens and new taxa seeking to expand and clarify our knowledge of these marvelous beasts. This volume presents the results of an international symposium on hadrosaurs, sponsored by the Royal Tyrrell Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, where scientists and students gathered to share their research and their passion for duck-billed dinosaurs. A uniquely comprehensive treatment of hadrosaurs, the book encompasses not only the well-known hadrosaurids proper, but also Hadrosaouroidea, allowing the former group to be evaluated in a broader perspective. The 36 chapters are divided into six sections—an overview, new insights into hadrosaur origins, hadrosaurid anatomy and variation, biogeography and biostratigraphy, function and growth, and preservation, tracks, and traces—followed by an afterword by Jack Horner. “Well designed, handsome and fantastically well edited (credit there to Patricia Ralrick), congratulations are deserved to the editors for pulling together a vast amount of content, and doing it well. The book contains a huge quantity of information on these dinosaurs.” —Darren Naish, co-author of Tetrapod Zoology, Scientific American “Hadrosaurs have not had the wide publicity of their flesh-eating cousins, the theropods, but this remarkable dinosaur group offers unique opportunities to explore aspects of palaeobiology such as growth and sexual dimorphism. In a comprehensive collection of papers, all the hadrosaur experts of the world present their latest work, exploring topics as diverse as taxonomy and stratigraphy, locomotion and skin colour.” —Michael Benton, University of Bristol

This book provides a description of the Hadrosaurus, featuring a graphic-style story in which a group of young Hadrosaurus hatchlings learn to avoid the predators of the forest and survive on their own.

The dinosaur group ornithopods included the giant Parasaurolophus, the tiny Lesothosaurus, and many other dinosaurs in between. The name “ornithopod” comes from the Greek words for “bird foot,” which describes the dinosaurs’ three-toed feet. However, this isn’t the only similarity the ornithopods had with birds. They also had duckbills or beaks. The detailed illustrations and informative text in this book give readers a close-up look at twelve birdlike dinosaurs.

"Full-color images and simple text introduce young readers to duck-billed dinosaurs, including their physical characteristics, habitats, and diets"--

Introduces duck-billed, plant-eating dinosaurs, including the Olorotitan and Saurolophus, discussing their physical characteristics and the traits they have in common with animals of today.

This book "features interactive fun to make the prehistoric world come to life. Pull tabs, spin wheels, open flaps, and have all sorts of hands-on fun."