Published by
NewSouth Publishing
University of New South Wales Press Ltd
University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
AUSTRALIA
© John Pickrell 2014
First published 2014
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry
Author: Pickrell, John, author.
Title: Flying Dinosaurs: How fearsome reptiles became birds / John Pickrell.
ISBN: 9781742233666 (paperback)
9781742241760 (ePub/Kindle)
9781742246826 (ePDF)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Dinosaurs.
Birds.
Dewey Number: 567.918
Design Josephine Pajor-Markus
Cover design Xou Creative
Front cover images Feathered dinosaur Guanlong wucaii faces off against its modern relative and ‘flying dinosaur’ the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). Guanlong is the earliest known tyrannosaur (Late Jurassic, 158–163 million years ago) and one of the smallest members of the group at about 4 metres long. Top: Guanlong wucaii © Peter Schouten, reproduced with permission. Bottom: Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Thinkstock.
Chapter opening image The evolution of flight © Jeff Goertzen/Australian Geographic.