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Can someone recommend (non-fiction) books about dinosaurs that are scientifically accurate and aimed at a college educated but non-expert audience?

• dilippkumar 6y ago
  Not a book, but I enjoyed this talk from The Royal Institute: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f-jD7kQvyPs
  • cbsks 6y ago
    That was a good talk! The speaker (David Hone) plugs his book at the end “The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs”
  • eru 6y ago
    Thanks! I remember being in that very room and attending some talks a few years ago. Good times.
• toufka 6y ago
  "The Rise & Fall of the Dinosaurs" by Steve Brusatte is a great book that describes chronologically the beginning of dinosaurs through their end - by means of a young scientist telling about his various digs in his own (non-chronologically) experience. One thing I found important and unique about it was that it put the dinosaurs in the context of their geological environment. It's relatively up to date, easily accessible, teaches quite a bit, and is fun. Birds are dinosaurs...
• devnonymous 6y ago
  I just finished reading the first couple of volumes of Larry Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe and have learned a lot about dinosaurs from that.
• Tagbert 6y ago
  Not a book, but there is also the excellent “PBS Eons” series on YouTube that has a lot of videos on dinosaurs.
• fuzzythinker 6y ago
  You're in luck. We have 2 such books today. Other than "Rise & Fall of Dinosaurs" mentioned, "Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology" is a good one too.