The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Reference

Tristán Peña: It brings the most recent discoveries of dinosaurs in paleontology. The information is very reliable to bring light to this amazing animals and also is easy to follow and comprehend so anyone who is not a pelontologist but have the basics in the subject can read this book without problems.

Mexico on Jan 03, 2024

Piotr Cuber: Love this way of approach to dinosaurs and presenting less known species

United Kingdom on Oct 04, 2023

Sailin' SteveSailin' Steve: Incredibly comprehensive skeletal diagrams, renderings and identification descriptions of hundreds of dinosaurs, an amateur paleontologists dream. This is scholar material in my opinion, so a bit dry for the casual enthusiast and lacks the range of colorful illustrations in other books. But for its intended use as an encyclopedic resource on all known dinosaurs at this time, a fascinating book, also of very high quality construction/gloss paper. And if you happen to run into a dinosaur in the woods and are stumped, this is the field guide for you :-) !

United States on Sep 16, 2023

Shadowboxer Photography: It is a field guide to dinosaurs! I went to the Denver Museum Nature and Science and photographed dinosaursI had never heard of, then looked them up in the guide. It has great illustrations of Dino skeletons and musculature, info on period they lived in, predator and prey and much more.

United States on May 09, 2023

Thalieos: A neat book for your average person. I bought it for a young, aspiring paleontologist and spent a little time flipping through it. Both of us enjoy reading it.

United States on Dec 26, 2022

Cliente Amazon: This book is a must have, because of the large number of fantastic skeletal drawings Paul is famous for. But there are two drawbacks: first, the relationship between groups and families are really hard to get because it's missing a family tree, so you have to rely on family or group name font size.. the larger, the broader but flipping pages like this is a nightmare. Second, Paul indulges in many kinds of extreme theories, and while some could in fact be true, here we have quite a parade: maniraptorans being secondary flightless? Triceratops juvenile of Torosaurus? Two species of Tyrannosaurus in USA with "Sue" and "Stan" defining them? They're all proposed as facts, while they are debated ideas at best.

Italy on Jan 30, 2022

Eme: I got it for my elective class when I was in design school. It was a pretty useful textbook/guide with a lot of images of what the dinosaurs could have looked like as well as it is very informative.

Canada on Oct 24, 2021

BRUNO STEFANI RODRIGUES DA SILVA: So amazing. So completed. It's a must have for dino lovers.

Brazil on Aug 12, 2021

Gil Hamilton: This is a fantastic book. As a longtime fan of Paul's Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, I am very pleased with this new work. Paul's conventional reconstructions are not the highest quality dinosaur art out there, but they are among the most accurate. His skeletal reconstructions are wonderful! They lack two things: a scale and an indication of which parts are and are not preserved. That is not necessary in a book for laymen, but this book is actually useful to professionals, albeit in a limited way. I have used it in rare circumstances for research, and I am sure I am not the only one.

As far as what you really want out of a dinosaur book, this is a great overview of the group. Paul's idiosyncratic taxonomy is a hindrance : he is a "lumper," and you won't find your favorites, like Diablosaurus or Tarbosaurus, except perhaps as footnotes. This causes confusion (for me, anyway) about dinosaur diversity. Also, while the "field guide" format is necessarily telegraphic, it would have been good to have a few more notes than provided, especially regarding Paul's taxonomic choices.

I cannot emphasize enough that these are MINOR quibbles. If your kid is the kind who knows...

United States on Nov 19, 2018

Jeremy Herz: The 2nd edition of The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs was one I looked forward to reading ever since it was announced. I was not disappointed by it. Within are over 100 new dinosaurs, some of which even I, a dinosaur enthusiast and expert (despite lack of formal training), had never heard of. The illustrations within are superb; the old images from the previous version have been enhanced and restored (sometimes showing a greater extent than in the previous edition) and are now accompanied by new paintings even more stunning. There are some some theories put forth by the author I don't agree with, but with dinosaurs, things constantly change. No theory is truly set in stone. My only hope is that there will be a third edition to further supplement what is known and any new discoveries in the future. For anyone into dinosaurs, this is a perfect guide into telling a T. rex from a Titanosaur to a Carnotaurus from a Chasmosaurus; each animal for which there is good material is shown with a skeleton and a lifelike illustration that shows just what it might have looked like, with accurate information regarding when, where, and with what it lived, making it well worth its price. In...

United States on Feb 08, 2017