A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
Ratings25
Average rating3.9
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Ratings25
Average rating3.9
Because your love of dinosaurs never goes extinct!
Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue twisting names, picking favorites based on ferocity, armor, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favorite.
For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct.
They are at the same time familiar and mysterious. And yet we’re in an age of rapid discovery—new dinosaur species and genera are being discovered at an accelerating rate, we’re learning more about what they looked like, how they lived, how they evolved and where they all went.
This series isn’t just a top trumps list of dino facts—we’re interested in the why and the how and like all areas of science there is plenty of controversy and debate.
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Fun primer to those new to the topic and an enjoyable “state of the field” for those looking to catch-up with the subject.
This is a quick overview of the history of Dinosaurs. Audio only (I think) and quite well done. It doesn't make any pretense of being complete, but is interesting and I did learn some new things.In fact this audiobook inspired me to seek out and buy [a:Tracy Chevalier 1973 Tracy Chevalier https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1496158858p2/1973.jpg]'s book [b:Remarkable Creatures 6457081 Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327161912l/6457081.SY75.jpg 6647405] about Mary Anning, a remarkable and influential 19th century fossil hunter. (Appears to be a fact-based historical novel – we shall see.)
As you move from a child to an adult the obsession with dinosaurs wears off. Ben Garrod wants to change this. He is an English evolutionary biologist, primatologist and broadcaster. Ben is also Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. In each episode expert paleontologists run though the history and science of dinosaurs. The series contains everything from:
their inception,
the distinct eras,
scientific and archaeological techniques used by paleontologists,
their historical evolution, and
their own mass-extinction.
Garrod is passionate about the material which makes listening a genuine pleasure. And after I've finished the series I now know some fascinating facts about them. In hindsight, I guess this is less of an audiobook and more of an audio-documentary. But it doesn't detract from the fact it's definitely worth your time.
