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Archibald, J. David, Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996).

 


Bakker, Robert T., The Dinosaur Heresies: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction (New York: Kensington, 1996 [1986]).

 

Colbert, Edwin H., The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries (New York: Dover, 1984 [1968]).

 


Currie, Philip J., and Kevin Padian, Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (Academic Press, 1997).

 


Dingus, Lowell, and Timothy Rowe, The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds (New York: W.H. Freeman, 1997).

 


Farlow, James O., and M.K. Brett-Surman, The Complete Dinosaur (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1997).

 


Fastovsky, David E., and David B. Weishampel, The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

 


Horner, John R., and Edwin Dobb, Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga (New York: HarperCollins, 1997). Also available in paperback.

 

Horner, John R., and James Gorman, Digging Dinosaurs (New York: HarperPerennial Library, 1996 [1988]).

 


Lambert, David, The Ultimate Dinosaur Book (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993).

 

Norell, Mark A., Eugene S. Gaffney, and Lowell Dingus, Discovering Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995).

 


Norman, David, Dinosaur! (New York: Macmillan, 1995 [1991]).

 

Norman, David, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (New York: Random House, 1995 [1985]).

 


Novacek, Michael J., Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs (New York: Anchor Books, 1996). Also available in paperback.

 


Psihoyos, Louie, and John Knoebber, Hunting Dinosaurs (New York: Random House, 1995).

 

Rudwick, Martin J.S., Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictoral Representations of the Prehistoric World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Also available in paperback.

 

For Children


Aliki, Digging Up Dinosaurs (New York: HarperCollins, 1988).

 


Arnold, Caroline, and Richard Hewett, Dinosaurs All Around: An Artist's View of the Prehistoric World (New York: Clarion Books, 1993). Also available in paperback.

 


Dingus, Lowell, and Mark Norell, Searching for Velociraptor (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).

 


Dixon, Dougal, Dinosaurs: The Fossil Hunters (Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 1996).

 


Funston, Sylvia, The Dinosaur Question and Answer Book (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998 [1992]).

 


Halls, Kelly Milner, Dino-Trekking: The Ultimate Dinosaur Lover's Travel Guide (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996).

 

Horner, John R., and Don Lessem, Digging Up Tyrannosaurus rex (New York: Crown, 1995 [1992]).

 


Lessem, Don, Dinosaur Worlds: New Dinosaurs, New Discoveries (Honesdale, Pa.: Boyds Mills Press, 1996).

 


Lessem, Don, and Robert F. Walters, Bigger Than T. rex: The Discovery of the Biggest Meat-Eating Dinosaur Ever Found (New York: Crown, 1997). Also available in hardcover.

 


Norman, David, and Angela C. Milner, Dinosaur (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989).

 


Schlein, Miriam, and Mark Hallett, The Puzzle of the Dinosaur-Bird: The Story of Archaeopteryx (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1996). Also available in hardcover.

 

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