The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know

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David Hone

The Future of Dinosaurs

What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know

David Hone

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Hodder & Stoughton
30 August 2022

Mathematics & Sciences; Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world

Out now: the new book by Dr David Hone which explores the frontiers of dinosaur research

Ever since we first started discovering dinosaurs in the early-1800s, our obsession for uncovering everything about these creatures has been insatiable. Each generation has made huge strides in trying to better our understanding of these animals and in the past twenty years, we have made more discoveries than in the previous two hundred.

There have been extraordinary advances in palaeontological methods and ever more dinosaur fossils promise a landslide of new data and huge leaps forward in our understanding of these incredible animals. Over time, we have been bale to look at the sizes and shapes of bones, we have identified patches of fossil skin, we have looked at footprints and bite marks and we've calculated mass estimates and walking speeds.

With surprisingly little data to work from, we can put together a picture of an animal that has been extinct for a million human lifetimes. But for all our technological advances, and two centuries of new data and ideas, there is stull much more we don't know. What parasites and diseases afflicted them? How did they communicate? Did they climb trees? How many species were there?

In The Future of Dinosaurs, palaeontologist Dr David Hone looks at the recent strides in scientific research and the advanced knowledge we've gathered in recent years, as well as what we hope to learn in the future about these most fascinating of extinct creatures.

By: David Hone
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781473692244
ISBN 10: 1473692245
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 30 August 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr David Hone is a paleontologist, writer and lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. His research focuses on the behaviour and ecology of the dinosaurs and their flying relatives, the pterosaurs. He writes about dinosaurs for The Guardian, the Telegraph, National Geographic and The Huffington Post.