The Princeton field guide to dinosaurs / Принстонский полевой справочник по динозаврам

If I were, at about age twenty as a budding paleozoologist and paleoartist, handed a copy of this book by a mysterious time traveler, I would have been shocked as well as delighted. The pages would reveal a world of new dinosaurs and ideas that I barely had a hint of or had no idea existed at all. My head would spin at the revelation of the therizinosaurs such as the wacky feathered Beipiaosaurus and at the biplane flying dromaeosaurids, not to mention the little halszkaraptors with their duck-like beaks, or the oversized shoulder spines of Gigantspinosaurus, the neck spines of Amargasaurus, the brow horns and atrophied arms of bulldog-faced Carnotaurus, the furry adornments of Tianyulong and Kulindadromeus, the bristly tail of Psittacosaurus, the extraordinary preservation of the armor of Borealopelta, the bat-like membranous wings of scansoriopterygids, the long-necked stegosaur Miragaia, and the often psychedelic frilled horns of the new stable of centrosaurine and chasmosaurine ceratopsids. Even Triceratops has proven to have strange skin. How about colossal new sauropods that gave the giant baleen whales a run for their money in terms of sheer bulk and could feed over six stories high in tree crowns? It is a particular pleasure to restore the skeleton of the once mysterious Deinocheirus, long known from only its colossal arms—its peculiar skeleton does not disappoint. And who would have imagined it would become possible to figure out the colors of some feathered dinosaurs? I would note the new names for some old dinosaurs, including my favorite, Giraffatitan. <...>