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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Contents
Preface
Note From The Illustrator
The Game of The Name
Who is related to whom
There’s a time and place for everything
A Brief Primer on Tyrannosaur Bony Anatomy
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Introducing the Dinosaurs
Awaking the lost world
Twentieth-century carnivores
The dinosaur renaissance
Chapter 2: What is a Tyrannosaur?
What are the dinosaurs?
Scaly skins and ‘cold blood’
Ruling the roost
Beast foot forwards
The tyrants
Chapter 3: Tyrannosaur Species
What makes a species a species?
Naming a new species
Chapter 4: Tyrannosaur Relationships
Putting the tyrannosaurs in their (evolutionary) place
Chapter 5: Tyrants in Time and Space
The oldest tyrants
Around the world in 80 million years (or so)
PART 2: MORPHOLOGY
Chapter 6: Skull
Brain boxes
Quite a smile
Chapter 7: Body
Belly bones
Squishy bits
Chapter 8: Limbs
Longshanks
Walk this way
Chapter 9: Outside
Beyond scales
Chapter 10: Physiology
Blowing hot and cold
Is walking tall the key?
Heating up
Size matters
Chapter 11: Changes
Getting a head
Reaching out, or not
Big is best
PART 3: ECOLOGY
Chapter 12: Reproduction and Growth
A nested development
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
It pays to advertise
Chapter 13: Prey
Heterodontosaurs
Stegosaurs
Ankylosaurs
Basal hadrosauroids
Hadrosaurs
Ceratopsians
Pachycephalosaurs
Sauropods
Ornithomimosaurs
Therizinosaurs
Stayin’ alive
Chapter 14: Competitors
An ever-changing and evolving roster
Ceratosaurs, megalosaurs and allosaurs
Spinosaurs
Azhdarchids
Crocodilians
Oviraptorosaurs
Troodontids
Dromaeosaurs
Room for one more?
Chapter 15: Obtaining Food
Predation and scavenging
Who is on the menu?
Finding a meal
In for the kill
Table manners
Chapter 16: Behaviour and Ecology
Living on one’s own
You don’t win friends with salad
Get on down
PART 4: MOVING FORWARDS
Chapter 17: Tyrannosaurus Fact and Fiction
A tiny tyrant?
Two Tyrannosaurus?
Chapter 18: The Future
Things to come
Animals of a feather
Any colour you like?
Chapter 19: Conclusions
References
Introduction
Morphology
Ecology
Moving Forwards
Further Reading
Museums and Online Sources
Museums
Europe
Asia and Australia
North America
Websites and blogs
Acknowledgements
Index
Plates
Series
Copyright
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