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Index
Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Coastal Town of Swanage, Dorset
2. Swanage: Ammonites and Evidence of Other Ancient Forms of Life
3. The Jurassic Coast
4. Purbeck: Strata in Which Dinosaur Fossils are Most Likely to be Found?
5. What is a Dinosaur?
6. The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Lost World
7. Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter Extraordinaire!
8. Dinosaur Prints: How to Identify Them
9. Dinosaur Prints: some Local Discoveries
10. Some Dinosaur Fossils from Purbeck and Further Afield
11. How is the Age of the Fossilised Bone of a Dinosaur Ascertained?
12. How Life Began, How Living Creatures Evolved, and the Dinosaurs in Particular
13. The Kt Boundary and the Kt Extinction Event
14. The Presence of High Concentrations of Iridium at the Kt Boundary, and Its Significance
15. Chicxulub: a Possible Location for the Alleged Asteroid Impact
16. Was There More than One Asteroid Impact?
17. Oil: Another Potentially Lethal Ingredient
18. The Volcanoes of India’S Deccan Region
19. The Chicxulub Impact: Both a Local and a Global Catastrophe
20. Some Terrestrial, Semi-Aquatic and Marine Creatures That Survived the Kt Extinction Event
21. Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded?
22. The Ability to Hibernate or Brumate: the Critical Factor
23. Hibernation/Brumation/Torpor: some of the Complexities Involved
24. The Genetics of Hibernation
25. For the Mammals Shall Inherit the Earth!
26. A New Dinosaur is Discovered
27. Birds: the Dinosaurs That Did Not Die
28. How Did Birds Survive the Kt Extinction Event?
29. The Enduring Attraction of Dinosaurs
Epilogue
Appendix: Dinosaur Data
Notes
Bibliography
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