Dinosaurs : a visual encyclopedia.

Contents
FOREWORD
PREHISTORIC LIFE
	How life began
	Evolution
	Timeline of life
	Changing planet
	All about fossils
	Dinosaur National Monument
	Fossil hunting
	A look at size
INVERTEBRATES
	What are invertebrates?
	The first animals
	Cambrian Explosion
	Opabinia
	Marrella
	Trilobites
	Selenopeltis
	Echinoderms
	Brittle stars
	Spiders and scorpions
	Giant millipede
	Insects
	Butterfly
	Fossilized in amber
	Meganeura
	Ammonites
	Fossil gems
	Fossil seashells
EARLY VERTEBRATES
	What are vertebrates?
	Jawless fish
	Armored fish
	Sharks and rays
	Megatooth shark
	Bony fish
	Lepidotes
	Lobe-finned fish
	Conquering land
	Amphibians
	Amphibamus
	Early plants
	Postosuchus
	Effigia
	Crocodylomorphs
	Pterosaurs
	Eudimorphodon
	Nothosaurs
	Plesiosaurs
	The Loch Ness monster
	Rhomaleosaurus
	Ichthyosaurs
	Stenopterygius
	A young fossil hunter
	Mosasaurs
DINOSAURS AND BIRDS
	Killer jaws
	What are dinosaurs?
	Small ornithischians
	Pachycephalosaurus
	Ceratopsians
	Triceratops
	Iguanodontians
	Hadrosaurs
	Dinosaur droppings
	Corythosaurus
	Edmontosaurus
	Scelidosaurus
	Stegosaurs
	Kentrosaurus
	Ankylosaurs
	Euoplocephalus
	Prosauropods
	Sauropods and relatives
	Inside a dinosaur
	Isanosaurus
	Diplodocoids
	Barosaurus
	Building a dinosaur
	Titanosaurs
	Dinosaur tracks
	Theropods
	Eoraptor
	Coelophysis
	Dubreuillosaurus
	Spinosaurids
	Suchomimus
	Allosaurus
	Tyrannosauroids
	Tyrannosaurus
	Compsognathids
	Ornithomimids
	Perfect fossil
	Oviraptorosaurs
	Dinosaur eggs
	Therizinosaurs
	Dromaeosaurs
	Fight to the death
	Microraptor
	Sinornithosaurus
	Stenonychosaurus
	Death of the dinosaurs
	Early birds
	Late birds
	Gastornis
MAMMALS
	What are mammals?
	Pelycosaurs
	Therapsids
	The first mammals
	Flowering plants
	Marsupials
	Thylacine
	Insect-eaters and relatives
	Icaronycteris
	Cats and hyenas
	Ice age!
	Caniforms
	A sticky end
	Rabbits and rodents
	Hoofed mammals
	Leptomeryx
	Macrauchenia
	Horses
	Chalicotherium
	Rhinoceroses
	Ashfall fossil beds
	Elephants and relatives
	Woolly mammoth
	Lyuba, the baby mammoth
	Megatherium
	Deer, giraffes, and camels
	Aurochs
	Cave paintings
	Andrewsarchus
	Whales in the making
	Primates
	Australopithecus
	Homo erectus
	Neanderthals
	Fact or fiction?
	Modern humans
	Bushman rock art
GLOSSARY AND INDEX