The Great Dinosaur Atlas

A guide to the prehistoric world of dinosaurs with maps, artwork, text, and pictorial spreads.

Using brand new maps and incredible artworks based on the latest scientific research, this atlas brings to life the world of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Journey back in time and find out where dinosaurs roamed. This unique children's atlas explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map. Dinosaur Atlas is packed with maps of early Earth and more than 40 profiles of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Stare down a T-Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors' slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Trek across the Siberian tundra and discover a woolly mammoth. This stunning book uses breathtaking computer-generated imagery to make every animal come to life.Using specially commissioned maps, this atlas also shows you what the world looked like millions of years ago. A modern 3D globe next to each map helps you understand the arrangement of the continents over time and why we find fossils where we do. You can see what palaeontologists have dug up in each continent and learn how they put together a picture of the past from a puzzle of ancient clues. Dinosaur Atlas reveals the prehistoric world as never before, and is an essential addition to the library of every young dinosaur expert.

A journey through the world of the most astonishing creatures the earth has ever seen with see-through pages and a CD-ROM.

In this atlas the maps reveal continent by continent where the dinosaurs have been discovered. All the main species of dinosaur are illustrated and they are accompanied by text that explains their characteristics, feeding habits and how they lived.

Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i.

Now available in paperback, The Dinosaur Atlas offers a unique, geographic approach to the timeless topic of dinosaurs. Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for an astonishing 150 million year and, over time, these amazing animals evolved into bigger, stronger, and more diverse creatures in order to adapt to their surroundings. The Dinosaur Atlas covers all of these changes, plus includes:Descriptions of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods Fascinating facts about more than 50 types of dinosaursincluding their food preferences, habits, and enemies Spectacular full-colour illustrations of the dinosaurs and the environments in which they lived More than 25 full-colour maps showing where dinosaurs remains have been found A detailed reference section that includes books, videos, museums, and dig programs

In this follow-on to Soccer Atlas, Space Atlas and Ocean Atlas readers will be taken on a journey to the prehistoric world! Dinosaur Atlas is a richly informative, beautifully illustrated book for dinosaur lovers everywhere, with an exciting new global perspective. Take a trip through time to the prehistoric world! Stare down a Tyrannosaurus Rex in North America. Watch out for Velociraptors’ slashing claws in the Gobi Desert. Marvel at the size of the Giganotosaurus in Argentina. On this Amazing Adventure readers will discover the mysteries of dinosaur origins, clues to what they looked like, how they survived, where they lived, and why they became extinct. What did the world look like during the Age of Dinosaurs? What are fossils and how can we learn from them? Who was the largest and most ferocious dinosaur of all? This expansive guide to dinosaurs large and small answers all these questions and more as readers journey around a lost world and come face to face with dinosaurs!

A survey of the noted paleontologists who have uncovered and studied dinosaur fossils including information on their findings