If you think you know the dinosaurs’ world, then
think again, for it grows stranger and more
fascinating all the time. In the five years since this
book’s original publication, understanding of these
extraordinary animals has grown with every
passing week. We are living in the ‘golden age’ of
dinosaur discovery, with dozens of significant
fossils emerging every year: where once our
picture of the Mesozoic era was grey and
populated by lumpen reptiles, now it is gaining colour and sound, revealing
in ever-greater detail the most dynamic and spectacular creatures to have
existed. Illustrator Fabio Pastori has kept abreast of the most cutting-edge
developments; the innovative images in these pages may not look like the
dinosaurs you’re used to seeing, but they incorporate all the very latest
research.