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Darren Naish is a palaeozoological researcher and author affiliated with the University of Southampton and the BBC Natural History Unit. He is the co-author of Dinosaurs: How they lived and evolved and regularly blogs and podcasts at www.tetzoo.com.

Paul M. Barrett is Merit Researcher in the Earth Science Department of the Natural History Museum, London. He has written more than 150 scientific papers on dinosaurs and has travelled worldwide to study these spectacular animals. He is the co-author of Dinosaurs: How they lived and evolved.

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The fully revised 3rd edition of this state-of-the-art guide to dinosaur biology. From the Victorian golden age of dinosaur discovery to the cutting edge of twenty-first century fossil forensics Dinosaurs unravels the mysteries of the most spectacular group of animals our planet has ever seen. Despite facing drastic climatic conditions including violent volcanic activity, searing temperatures and rising and plunging sea levels, the dinosaurs formed an evolutionary dynasty that ruled the Earth for more than 150 million years. Darren Naish and Paul Barrett reveal the latest scientific findings about dinosaur anatomy, behaviour, and evolution. They also demonstrate how dinosaurs survived the greatextinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period and continued to evolve and thrive alongside us, existing today as an incredibly diverse array of birds that are the direct descendants of theropods. Dinosaurs is lavishly illustrated with specimens from the Natural History Museum's own collections, along with explanatory diagrams and charts and full-colour artistic reconstructions of dinosaur behaviour.