Pachycephalosaurus Thick-Headed Lizard Author:Enrique Fiesta, John Davidson Hello young reader! By reading this book you are going to take a step back in time and journey to the age of the dinosaurs! The dinosaurs are the some of the most amazing creatures to live on our planet. They existed around 200 million years ago and continued to exist for 165 million years. The human race has only been around for about 60,000 ye... more »ars. This means that the dinosaurs lived on earth 2750 times longer that we have! For reasons unknown the dinosaurs mysteriously disappeared 65 million years ago and became extinct. The only reason we know they exist is because we have found their fossilized remains in the earth. Humans have come across dinosaur fossils throughout history, but it wasn't until the 19th century (1800s) that the study of dinosaurs became a formal scientific study. The first fossil given serious attention as a dinosaur specimen was an Iguanodon* fossil. Since then dinosaur fossils have been discovered all over the world. Right now paleontologists and scientists are doing important digging in China because feathered dinosaurs have been found there, but even the scaly ones are important too. The dinosaurs' strange shapes and sizes have sparked the imaginations of countless people. The study of dinosaurs requires depth of imagination, analytical skills, and thought. I hope this book fuels your imagination and makes you want to learn even more about dinosaurs. I hope you learn to appreciate the value of the dinosaurs and that you bring a spirit of openness and wonder on your journey back to the age of the dinosaurs.
The dinosaur we are learning about in this book is the Pachycephalosaurus. This dinosaur is famous for its thick dome-like skull. We are going to learn about this dome structure, the dinosaur's appearance, behavior, and how it related to its environment and the dinosaurs it lived with.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Appearance and Behavior
Chapter 2: Environment
Conclusion
Author Bio
Introduction to Dinosaurs; Facts about Dinosaurs; Dinosaur Extinction; Dinosaur Fossils; Dinosaur Eggs; Dinosaur Names; Dinosaur Diet; Feathered Dinosaurs; Plant Eating Dinosaurs; The Weirdest Dinosaurs; The Deadliest Dinosaurs; Flying Dinosaurs; Kinds of Dinosaurs; The Biggest Dinosaurs; The Smallest Dinosaurs.« less