Predatory dinosaurs of the world. A complete illustrated guide / Хищные динозавры всего мира. Полное иллюстрированное руководство

This book got its start about seven years ago when Robert Bakker-the progressive dinosaurologist I studied with for many years-suggested that I draw up illustrations of some predatory dinosaur skeletons. About the same time, I started looking into the problem of bird origins, which I believed was tied to dinosaurs. One thing led to another and after a while I realized I had enough material available to put together a book on the dinosaurian meat eaters. So I decided to do something that has never been done before. Most dinosaur books are general books. No one has done a volume tuned to a particular group, examining each species in turn. This is rather odd: There are books on Allied fighter aircraft of World War II, and on waterfowl of North America; why not one on predaceous dinosaurs? Indeed, it is my hope that this will be the first in a series of books on the groups of animals related to dinosaurs-the archosaurs. The herbivorous dinosaurs might make up the next two or three volumesthere are a lot more herbivorous dinosaurs than predatory ones -then one on the dinosaur's ancestors, the primitive thecodonts and crocodilians, another on the flying pterosaurs, and perhaps last the fossil birds. <...>