Contents

Contents : Introduction; EARLY LIFE ON EARTH - birth of our planet; life begins; in the oceans; invasion of the land; the first reptiles; birth of the dinosaurs; DINOSAURS AND OTHER EARLY REPTILES - early reptiles; life in Carboniferous Nova Scotia; mammal-like reptiles; life in permian South AFrica; early diapsids; snakes and lizards; life in Triassic North America; turtles, tortoises and terrapins; placodonts; nothosaurs; plesiosaurs; life in Jurassic seas; pliosaurs; ichthyosaurs; the beast of Maastricht; early ruling reptiles; crocodiles; life in Jurassic skies; flying reptiles; dinosaur discovery; birdlike dinosaurs; attacking dinosaurs; theropods; allosaurs and spinosaurs; tyrannosaurs; life in Jurassic Europe; prosauropods; sauropods; life in cretaceous Mongolia; fabrosaurs and heterodonts; boneheads; life in cretaceous Belgium; hypsilophodonts; living in a herd; iguanodonts; life in cretaceous Alberta; duckbilled dinosaurs; feathered dinosaurs; stegosaurs; nodosaurs; anklyosaurs; life in cretaceous North America; horned dinosaurs; the end; glossary; index; acknowledgements;