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Trout Montague Posted Oct 17, 2009
Consider ...
Dinosaurs - A Very Short Introduction by David Norman
http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EarthSciences/Paleontology/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5MjgwNDE5OA==
An abridged version fell out of The Independent around 18 months ago. I suppose you might feel the pitch of it from here ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=NLtSuGSYgt8C&dq=dinosaurs+david+norman+oxford+university+press&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=0KPZSrjULsGBkQW_poTJDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 18, 2009
Not a book, but an interesting discovery that adds to the overall understanding of dinos and their evolution:
Darwinopterus:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8306060.stm
~jwf~
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Oct 18, 2009
Thought you said dinosaurs were a "complete fantasy."
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 18, 2009
Musta been a typo.
Or, as too often happens, my irony was lost in translation
between what I heard in my head and what appears in print.
My words should never been taken at face value or, worse,
with a prejudice that expects me to be a hostile spoilsport.
So, for what it's worth, it was a typo. Okay?
I meant 'completely fantastic'.
~jwf~
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Mr. X ---> "Be excellent to each other. And party on, dudes!" Posted Oct 18, 2009
Hmmm....... Okay.......
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 22, 2009
More 'news' that's about 150 million years old:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8318643.stm
These critters may be the Easter Bunnies ancestors! 
~jwf~
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Oct 27, 2009
You won't need a book if these hits just keep on happening!
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091027/science/science_eu_britain_sea_monster
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091021/science/science_us_sci_controversial_fossil_1
~jwf~
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RadoxTheGreen - Retired Posted Oct 30, 2009
I'm still having trouble adjusting to the idea that the brontasaurus never actually existed in the first place. All those Moschops episodes with Mr Brontosaurus, they'll all have to be redubbed...
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 30, 2009
Oh, you know, a brontosaurus by any other name would be as large... 
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Oct 30, 2009
(And why shouldn't his name be Mr Brontosaurus? Your name isn't Mr Human, is it?)
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RadoxTheGreen - Retired Posted Oct 30, 2009
Ah, but the dinosaurs in Moschops were called by their species, Mr Icthyosaurus, 'Ally' Saurus, Uncle Tyrannosaurus Rex, Grandpa Diplodocus etc.
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Nov 11, 2009
And the hits just keep on happening:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/091111/science/science_af_south_africa_dinosaur
This barrel chested beasty could be the grandaddy of the elephrump.
Large chest means large lungs, and maybe it had a snorkel (trunk).
~jwf~
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