It's True! Dinosaurs are still with us today - in the shape of birds. The eighth title in the exciting new non-fiction series for 8-12 year olds is full of astounding information about dinosaurs from the latest discoveries to evidence of dinosaur battles and how to become a palaeontologist.
Pssst! It's True! This is the best book on DINOSAURS you'll ever read! Fossil smugglers caught! Dino battle of the century! Skeletons sell for millions! Stegosaurus footprints stolen!
Dinosaurs are still making headlines, 65 million years after they all died out. (Or did they?) New fossil discoveries reveal ancient secrets from the long-ago times when 80-tonne titanosaurids and chicken-sized raptors shared the Earth with killers like Tyrannosaurus rex. Dig up the dirt on Jurassic giants and Triassic tyrants
John Long grew up in Melbourne and began collecting fossils when he was seven. He found his first dinosaur bones near Inverloch, Victoria, when he was a university student. He worked as a palaeontologist in Canberra, Tasmania and WA. Today he lives in Perth and works at the WA Museum. He is the author of several books for adults and children including Dinosaurs of Australia and other animals of the Mesozoic Era, Reed Books 1990, and Dinosaur Dealers, Allen + Unwin 2002.