My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
- ISBN-10
- 0374135061
- ISBN-13
- 9780374135065
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-04-16
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Brian Switek
Description
A regular columnist for Smithsonian and Wired questions our long-held beliefs about dinosaurs and presents the latest scientific findings on what colors they really were, how they got so big and how they actually may have died out. 30,000 first printing.
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- 2014-03-04
- 272 pages
- Paperback
- Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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- 2013-04-16
- 272 pages
- Ebook
- Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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