Discover the Incredible World of Dinosaurs: A Comprehensive Guide to Prehistoric Beasts

Acucena Colbourne: I bought this book for a Christmas gift for my Grandson who loves dinosaurs. He knows a lot about dinosaurs, but he told me that there is a lot of new information.

Canada on Jan 01, 2021

Amazon Customer: Really up to date review of dinosaur species

United Kingdom on Apr 05, 2020

Bluesgirl: Good treatment of a topic that has been hashed over a lot. It was nice to have the time frames of the different dino eras put into perspective. It didn't bother me (as it seemed to have bothered some other reviewers) that some dinos had only outlines for representation. Often all that is known about a particular dino is from an incomplete collection of bones, so we can only surmise what the dino actually looked like, thus the outline illustration. There are good illustrations for the dinos whose physiology is known (some are truly scary!). Nice commentaries on the places of discovery, as well with time lines in an easy to read chart format.
I would recommend this book to someone who has an interest in dinos, maybe as a hobby. If you have wondered about the dinos and their world together and as separate species, I think this is the book for you. If you want something a little more scientific, then you might have to look elsewhere.

United States on Nov 07, 2018

Flavio: Apesar das descrições sucintas das espécies, é uma boa obra e com ótimas ilustrações.

Brazil on Aug 20, 2018

Al138: First and foremost, this book provides one of the most accessible surveys of contemporary knowledge about dinosaurs available today. Despite a primary focus on dinosaurs, the book includes also a small (yet healthy) amount of information about the other animals that shared the Earth with them during the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods. Pim even makes sure to include historical information about important paleontologists and how they influenced the field. Each dinosaur covered is chronologically organized by the geologic period that best defines it. This gives the reader the advantage of easily constructing a mental profile of the herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore dinosaur species that exploited various parts of the same environment. Furthermore, the text for some animals makes it a point to refer to related species covered earlier in the text, which is especially useful for understanding species that span multiple geological periods. The text is not overly technical, and the illustrations are well done. While some of the species are disappointingly rendered only as silhouettes, I sincerely believe that the overall quality of artwork somewhat...

United States on Dec 27, 2017

Angel I. Mejia: Definitivamente un libro que vale la pena tener para cualquier dino-aficionado!!!

Compre la versión de pasta dura a un precio INCREIBLE! ($160.00) pero definitivamente vale por lo que está actualmente marcado (~$500.00).

La calidad es simplemente única! Son más de 300 páginas (todas con colores brillantes e impresión de fuente perfecta).

Este es un libro de consulta para una audiencia mucho mayor, no es un libro para niños, si no mas bien (a mi parecer) para personas interesadas en la información más que en las imágenes. El contenido esta AL DIA sobre los descubrimientos de los nuevos dinosaurios y los cambios que se han hecho a los ya descubiertos. Sin mencionar que contiene a cada uno hasta la fecha nombrado.

Al libro contribuye Jack Horner con su conocimiento y experiencia, siendo el la inspiracion para el personaje de Allan Grant y a quien se consultaba para la creación de los libros de Jurassic Park y The Lost World de M. Crichton

Es importante mencionar que la gran mayoría de las imágenes en la descripción de los dinosaurios son simples siluetas negras.

Mexico on Mar 28, 2017

Stöpsel: Leider sind die meisten deutschsprachigen Dinobücher eher für Kinder und recht einfach gehalten. Auf der Suche nach einem etwas "erwachsenerem" Buch, bin ich bei diesem hier hängen geblieben:
Hier werden eher einzelne Spezies beschrieben, große Ausschweifungen und lange Sachtexte zur Einteilung der Dinosaurier, Entwicklung, Perioden, usw. gibt es nicht, zwischendrin wird immer mal wieder etwas eingeschoben, was ich als genau richtig empfand.
Auf jeden Fall sehr informativ mit vielen interessanten Hintergrundinfos zu zig Dinos! Ausserdem sehr schöne Zeichnungen und Illustrationen, anstelle von oftmals billigen oder kitschigen Renderings. Auch sonst ist der Inhalt grafisch sehr schön und übersichtlich gestaltet.

Kaufempfehlung für alle, die (gut) Englisch verstehen und etwas in Richtung Dino-Lexikon suchen!

Germany on Nov 13, 2016

John McWhorter: The fact that so many of the pictures are mere silhouettes is, at first, off-putting. However, there are more actual illustrations than it seems from a skim, they are, in themselves, excellent although usually not in full color, and in reality, the vast majority of these animals are known from such partial material that the full illustrations we're used to are largely speculation anyway.

Overall, this is actually a fantastic survey of dinosaurs for the 2010s. Pim's book proceeds as if a Martian came down and simply wrote a book about the dinosaurs known so far, with no sense that the grand old American dinosaurs of the Morrisson Formation plus a little bit of Protoceratops and Oviraptor from the Gobi desert are somehow the "primary" animals. China, as such, gets as much airplay as the United States, and one senses that Pim wanted to shine a light on lesser-known genera rather than rehash the same old Triceratops and Stegasaurus (although those get fine coverage as well). Page after page we get capsule-sized introductions to dinosaurs we've never heard of -- or as fans, maybe read about briefly on a blog five years ago and promptly forgot (Meilong,...

United States on Apr 03, 2015