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WELL PRESERVED DINOSAUR FOSSILS OF THE ,ATE #RETACEOUS ! STRETCH OF

ROCK MILES KM LONG HAS YIELDED A SNAPSHOT OF ANIMAL LIFE FROM

MILLION YEARS AGO WHEN THE REGION WAS DRY AND SANDY WITH LITTLE

WATER 0WJSBQUPS NESTED HERE 7FMPDJSBQUPS WAS THE HUNTER AND HERDS

OF 1SPUPDFSBUPQT GRAZED ON THE LOW LYING GROUND ONLY TO BE

ENTOMBED BY SANDSTORMS 4ODAY FOSSILIZED BONES EGGS AND

NESTS ARE FOUND IN THE FIRE RED ROCKS OF THE &LAMING #LIFFS SITE
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ARE WELL BELOW FREEZING AT NIGHT FOSSILIZED DINOSAUR NESTS AND NEW
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THE DAYTIME SUN
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4HE 'OBI $ESERT OF CENTRAL
!SIA STRETCHES FOR MILES led expeditions to the Gobi Desert,
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sequence images show )T IS AN ARID INHOSPITABLE LED EXPEDITIONS TO THE 'OBI $ESERT where he discovered the first-known
LANDSCAPE WHERE TEMPERATURES WHERE HE DISCOVERED THE FIRST KNOWN
how an animal is believed ARE WELL BELOW FREEZING AT NIGHT FOSSILIZED DINOSAUR NESTS AND NEW fossilized dinosaur nests, and new
DINOSAURS INCLUDING 1SPUPDFSBUPQT
THEN BECOME BAKING HOT IN
to have moved THE DAYTIME SUN dinosaurs, including Protoceratops.
Biography Boxes reveal the people
behind the finds—by piecing together
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TO COMPLETE THE WALKING SEQUENCEˆIN THIS WAY
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MPH KPH IN SHORT BURSTS TO ESCAPE FROM DANGER
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REDUCE WEIGHT OF THE WITH AGE PROVIDED AN REDUCE WEIGHT OF THE WITH AGE PROVIDED AN
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PLANTS LIKE SCISSORS
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sudden catastrophe. THAT PROTECTED THE PELVIC BONE 3#!05,! OR
SHOULDER BLADE
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TO )T WAS A PLANT EATER THAT MOVED IS EVIDENCE FOR BOTH PREDATOR AND PREY THE BACK FEET 5,.!
ON ITS BACK LEGS BUT DROPPED TO
ALL FOURS WHEN FEEDING These pages detail selected fossil sites from the given
continent, and the prehistoric animals that lived in these
areas. They include world-famous locations, noted for
their abundance of fossils, or because finds have been
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BACKWARD SLANTING TEETH 4HEY WERE SHARP
BUT WERE NOT DESIGNED TO CUT THROUGH MEAT
)NSTEAD %FJOPOZDIVT BIT INTO ITS PREY THEN
JERKED ITS HEAD TO TEAR THE FLESH AWAY
#EDAR -OUNTAIN 5 4 ! (
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.ATIONAL 0ARK
FLOODPLAIN DOTTED WITH POOLS AND CROSSED BY RIVERS 4HERE WERE WET AND DRY (SFFO $)$ 9/5 +./7 4HE TOP PREDATOR OF THE #EDAR STRONG MUSCLES
SEASONS AND AFTER HEAVY RAIN THE RIVERS WOULD SWELL AND BURST THEIR BANKS #ANYONLANDS -OAB GU -OUNTAIN &ORMATION WAS PROBABLY
# / , / 2
SPILLING WATER FILLED WITH MUDDY SEDIMENT ACROSS LOW LYING GROUND .ATIONAL 0ARK #EDAR N ! BONE BED HAS PRODUCED MORE 6UBISBQUPS 4HIS DROMAEOSAUR
THAN BONES BELONGING TO
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6UBISBQUPS AND (BTUPOJB AN ARMORED DINOSAUR &ISH TURTLES N 4HIS SUGGESTS THE ANIMALS LIVED LARGEST MEMBER OF ITS GROUP WAS EXCAVATED IN THE #EDAR
ARMED WITH A CURVED CLAW ON EACH
AND CROCODILES SWAM IN THE RIVERS AND POOLS 4HE AREA S ANCIENT -BLF 1PXFMM IN A HERD THAT DIED IN A SINGLE FOOT THAT GREW TO IN CM !N -OUNTAIN &ORMATION
SUDDEN CATASTROPHE
LIFE FORMS WERE FIRST RECOGNIZED IN THE S SINCE WHEN THE INTELLIGENT ANIMAL 6UBISBQUPS MAY
#EDAR -OUNTAIN &ORMATION HAS BECOME A MAJOR LOCATION FOR 3)4% ,/#!4)/. $INOSAUR TRACKS AND EGGSHELLS HAVE HUNTED IN PACKS STALKING PREY
BEFORE ATTACKING IT WITH A COMBINATION
ARE ALSO FOUND IN THE ROCKS
THE STUDY OF %ARLY #RETACEOUS DINOSAURS IN .ORTH !MERICA 4HE %ARLY #RETACEOUS ROCKS OF THE OF FLESH PIERCING KICKS AND BITES
#EDAR -OUNTAIN &ORMATION OCCUR IN THE
SOUTHWESTERN 53 IN EASTERN 5TAH AND
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!N EARLY MEMBER OF THE ANKYLOSAUR ARMORED DINOSAUR FAMILY OF !RCHES .ATIONAL 0ARK
(BTUPOJB T NECK BACK AND TAIL WERE COVERED IN WIDE FLAT BONY SPINES
)T WAS A HERBIVORE THAT PROBABLY GRAZED ON FERNS AND OTHER GROUND
PLANTS -ANY SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN THE ROCKS OF THE the book show actual
#EDAR -OUNTAIN &ORMATION SUGGESTING IT WAS ONE OF THE 4(% ,/.'%34 30).%3 WERE AT
AREA S COMMON DINOSAURS THE SHOULDERS REACHING teetH to puncture anD pull
LENGTHS OF IN CM specimens, and text
IN AN ADULT
#%$!2 -/5.4!). 4/$!9 The jaws of Deinonychus were packed with
/VER A PERIOD OF PERHAPS MILLION
YEARS THE SEDIMENTS DROPPED BY THE captions draw attention
RIVERS AND POOLS OF THE %ARLY #RETACEOUS backward-slanting teeth. They were sharp,
BUILT UP AND HARDENED INTO DEEP
DEPOSITS OF ROCK 4ODAY THESE ANCIENT but were not designed to cut through meat. to the key features.
ROCKS FORM HIGH CLIFFS OF RUST COLORED
PEBBLY SANDSTONE MUDSTONE AND
SILTSTONE WHICH HAVE BEEN ERODED BY Instead, Deinonychus bit into its prey, then
WEATHERING INTO DEEP CANYONS
jerked its head to tear the flesh away.
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