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The companion book to the upcoming Discovery Channel television series, Planet Dinosaur is an introduction to the latest and most exciting dinosaur discoveries. The last decade has been particularly fruitful in the study of dinosaurs, with more new species found than were discovered in the preceding 200 years. Many of these discoveries easily eclipse previously known species and are rewriting what we know about dinosaurs. Planet Dinosaur is a global survey of the 30 most thrilling dinosaur species found in recent years. It provides a new global perspective on dinosaurs, revealing which species lived at the same time on different continents and how the Earth looked in each time period. Specimens in China, the Sahara, the Arctic, Antarctica and North America are especially exciting. The deadly predator, Giganotosaurus, outsized T-Rex. Dracorex hogwartsia lived in North America 70 million years ago and resembled a real-life dragon. Comprehensive text describes where the dinosaurs lived, their physical characteristics and their behavior. 120 stunning computer-generated illustrations and graphics render the awe-inspiring creatures in lifelike detail. This is the same technology used in the award-winning TV special Walking with Dinosaurs and in the bestselling book The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. A three-part TV special on which Planet Dinosaur is based will air on Discovery Channel in the summer of 2012. Information on the most exciting discoveries of recent years and extraordinary illustrations make Planet Dinosaur essential for anyone interested in dinosaurs.
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Firefly Books (January 19, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 177085049X
ISBN-13: 978-1770850491
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.9 x 10 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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What makes Planet Dinosaur such a great book is in subtleties and on many levels.Planet Dinosaur is kinda a new generation as far as books on the subject go. I am one of those people that visits the library to look at picture books on dinosaurs but this book would not be part of the major city library collection at the time and I discovered this at Barnes and Noble.For starters two books were originally my "end all" selections to date on the subject of dinosaurs and dino art- National Geographic Dinosaurs- Barrett Martin and DK Guide to Dinosaurs. In these books which are far more comprehensive on dino species and even number of pages- I would find breath taking images on the subjects and even human size comparisons as I recall.With all that, Planet Dinosaur comes out the actual winner or best book to me on the subject- literally sucking me in through no medium I can directly put my finger on. I would later find that subtle coloring and detail of the computer rendered images would evolve to be more striking, real, compelling and thought provoking even though the number of dinosaurs would be less varied then in the two previous mentioned books. Here the artist/ author brought to life the dinosaurs as the two previous books couldnt almost carving a solid niche in ones mind as a refernce tool on dinosaurs and their environments. Glimpses into their world or the earth before man were stunning and completely effective even though this book is relatively of moderate size.It would be a Trompe l'oeil pulling the whole book off with concise almost hidden or unknown accuracies such as daylight, glow, dimension, mist, haze, textures even movement.
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