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A review by marikalla
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs by David Hone
3.0
3 stars.
The writing is about as dry as you probably suspect.
Like:
"The number of teeth in each maxilla and dentary vary in the tyrannosaurs, with each having between 11 and 18 teeth, and there typically being more in smaller, older tyrannosaurs, and fewer in more recent and larger forms" (94).
Despite this, the book is also chock-fool of great information, and the author's passion about sharing his knowledge shines through. I may not have understood all the vocab (no matter how many times I read a sentence over), but hey, I got answers to a lot of the questions I wondered about.
Like, did dinosaurs have feathers since they're bird ancestors?
Though it also left me with other questions, like did dinosaurs have lips, but I suppose that's a question for another day.
Also, apparently pterodactyls weren't actually dinosaurs, who knew? (this guy I guess)
The writing is about as dry as you probably suspect.
Like:
"The number of teeth in each maxilla and dentary vary in the tyrannosaurs, with each having between 11 and 18 teeth, and there typically being more in smaller, older tyrannosaurs, and fewer in more recent and larger forms" (94).
Despite this, the book is also chock-fool of great information, and the author's passion about sharing his knowledge shines through. I may not have understood all the vocab (no matter how many times I read a sentence over), but hey, I got answers to a lot of the questions I wondered about.
Like, did dinosaurs have feathers since they're bird ancestors?
Though it also left me with other questions, like did dinosaurs have lips, but I suppose that's a question for another day.
Also, apparently pterodactyls weren't actually dinosaurs, who knew? (this guy I guess)