. The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. Dinosaurs; Reptiles, Fossil. there are periodic outbreaks of sensational stories having to do with dinosaurs that are still living in some far corner of the South American jungles. Sir A. Conan Doyle's romantic novel The Lost World was based upon this idea. And no matter how often this misconception is killed by scientific facts, it keeps coming to life. Another misconception is the common one that dinosaurs were all tremendously large beasts, crashing through the strange forests of an ancient world and tearing up trees by the root
. The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives. Dinosaurs; Reptiles, Fossil. there are periodic outbreaks of sensational stories having to do with dinosaurs that are still living in some far corner of the South American jungles. Sir A. Conan Doyle's romantic novel The Lost World was based upon this idea. And no matter how often this misconception is killed by scientific facts, it keeps coming to life. Another misconception is the common one that dinosaurs were all tremendously large beasts, crashing through the strange forests of an ancient world and tearing up trees by the roots. It is true that many of the dinosaurs were large, and some of them were the greatest animals ever to walk across the land, but it is equally true that there were many medium-size and small dinosaurs. What, then, are the facts about dino- saurs? How did they live? What did they eat? How did they reproduce? What kinds DINOSAURS IN THE PUBLIC EYE a *>i^j. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001; Germann, John C. New York, N. Y. : American Museum of Natural History
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