Dinosaur Books

[Clark Addison]

I watched "Walking with Dinosaurs" on Netflix recently, and it got me interested in studying them more. At the risk of sounding like a 10 year old boy, does anyone have any good book recommendations? Here is what I am looking for:

1. Fairly general in scope. I'd like a good overview of the different eras, different families and species, etc. Although, if you have a recommendation on an excellent book that is narrow in scope (such as, regarding extinction theories), I would be interested in hearing it as well.
2. "Popular Science" level. I am not looking for a book written for 5th graders, but I am also not looking for a dry and highly technical text filled with comparative skull measurements. Several years ago, I read "The Dinosaur Heresies" and really liked it. I am looking for something like that.
3. A decent amount of illustrations would be nice, but not absolutely necessary.
4. Better written than Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia, but a lot of those long articles are hard to slog through.
5. Cheaper than $90

I don't think we have any Paleontologists on here, but we have some Science types around here, right? Help me out here Woot.

[woot]

I watched "Walking with Dinosaurs" on Netflix recently, and it got me interested in studying them more. At the risk of sounding like a 10 year old boy, does anyone have any good book recommendations? Here is what I am looking for:

1. Fairly general in scope. I'd like a good overview of the different eras, different families and species, etc. Although, if you have a recommendation on an excellent book that is narrow in scope (such as, regarding extinction theories), I would be interested in hearing it as well.
2. "Popular Science" level. I am not looking for a book written for 5th graders, but I am also not looking for a dry and highly technical text filled with comparative skull measurements. Several years ago, I read "The Dinosaur Heresies" and really liked it. I am looking for something like that.
3. A decent amount of illustrations would be nice, but not absolutely necessary.
4. Better written than Wikipedia. I love Wikipedia, but a lot of those long articles are hard to slog through.
5. Cheaper than $90

I don't think we have any Paleontologists on here, but we have some Science types around here, right? Help me out here Woot.

I don't have a lot for you on this, as I tend not to read too much about dinosaurs. I am most of the way through a really good book that has decent coverage of dinosaurs but that also covers aspects of primates, birds, whales, elephants, etc.

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It's the first book of a guy who's been blogging for a while and recently went full-time freelance (and moved to Utah last week). Not sure if it fits the bill but I recommend it.

[Donuthole]

Doctrines of Salvation taught me everything I need to know about dinosaurs.

[Uncle Ted]

You should take your son to the Creation Museum. It has some great dinosaur exhibits like Eve playing with the velociraptors...