Re-edumacate me about Dinosaurs!

[Vic Vega]

Brontosaurus never existed, though. It was just some Apatosaurus bones that were confused for a new species.

You're telling me that Fred Fintstone couldn't have eaten a Brontosaurus burger? Sorry, but I'm not buying it...

 

[Dr Adequate]

[swiki]Dinosaurs[/swiki]

Som interesting stuff there (though I say so myself) about the evolution of dinosaurs.

 

[jnelso99]

If you feel like spending the money, the "Dinosaur Encyclopedia" series by Donald F. Glut is pretty cool.

 

[Big Les]

The SW article was probably one of the things that prompted me to get my head back in dinosaur-land Dr A - I ended up there whilst reading up on evolution in general a couple of months back.

This is nifty - a few relevant (and some very old indeed) articles there. Including a very early C20th one by Henry Osborn on T. rex classification (I lost the link there, but search for tyrannosaur* and you should find it).

 

[Mojo]

The notion that the dromaeosaurids (e.g. Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor) had feathers seems to make them all the more creepy. The thought of a 30ft long carnivorous pheasant is actually kind of scary.

Robert Bakker has described T. Rex as a "10,000-pound roadrunner from hell".

 

[Dancing David]

I was impressed by the idea that an apatosaurus might use it's tail as a whip.

For the D&D geek crowd that mean it could do a rear and smash or a tail whip.

 

[Tokenconservative]

I've been reading some old threads on the subject here, and it's clear that we have some very knowledgeable amateur prehistoric reptile experts here. My own interest is long-standing but seriously lapsed - although keen from age 4 or thereabouts, my academic efforts all went into the anthropological fields and I lost track of new developments, stopped buying books etc. It's been ten years since I read a "proper", by which I still mean popular rather than academic, book on the subject. For instance, I was amazed to discover recently that velociraptor and deinonychus both had feathers!

Can anyone recommend some good websites and published books that would get me back up beyond "interested layman" level on the subject?

The companion books that go with that Dinosaur TV series are quite good reading. My daughter has a collection of books related to this, and there are several good "Dino encyclopeadias" out there.

Tokie