Contents

Contents : the world of dinosaurs - early earth - life begins - the first reptiles - swamp life - mammal-like reptiles - Dimetrodon - teeth and tusks - Cynognathus - 300 million years ago - real reptiles - Champsosaurus - lizards and snakes - dawn of the dinosaurs - turtles and tortoises - creatures of the coast - triassic sea monsters - life in jurassic seas - giants of the sea - plesiosaurus - ocean hunters - fish lizards - ichthyosaurus - monster mosasaurs - early ruling reptiles - prehistoric crocs - flying reptiles - pteranodon - types of dinosaur - dinosaur diets - birdlike dinosaurs - velociraptor - pack hunters - flesh-eating theropods - massive meat-eaters - allosaurus - tyrant lizards - tyrannosaurus - 200 million years ago - before the sauropods - plant-eating giants - apatosaurus - cretaceous earth - bird-hipped dinosaurs - heterodontosaurus - boneheads - living in a herd - herbivorous hypsilophodonts - parkosaurus - iguanodonts - iguanodon - family life - duckbilled dinosaurs - maiasaura - feathered dinosaurs - attack and defence - plates and spikes - stegosaurus - armoured nodosaurs - polacanthus - club-tailed dinosaurs - horned dinosaurs - triceratoops - the end of an era - life goes on - dinosaur discoveries - glossary - index