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"Scientists who study dinosaurs often have to be good detectives. And like detectives, they sometimes come to the wrong conclusions. That's what happened when George Olson discovered the first Oviraptor fossil. Learn why Olson named the new dinosaur 'egg stealer' and how later scientists finally uncovered the truth about Oviraptor. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources...

"Imagine walking down the street and running into an Ankylosaurus. Its heavy, plated body and thick spines would surprise anybody! But despite its size and armor, this 'stiff lizard' could move pretty quickly when it needed to. Discover how Ankylosaurus continues to surprise scientists--and unsuspecting readers--to this day. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for...

"Have you ever tried putting together a puzzle without knowing what it would look like when you had finished? If you have, you know what Othniel Charles Marsh felt like as he put together the bones and plates of a Stegosaurus he had discovered. Follow Stegosaurus from its life on Earth millions of years ago to its reconstruction in a museum--bones, plates, and all! Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary...

Before dinosaurs were big, most of them came from small eggs and were tiny but mighty babies.

"We think of dinosaurs as big and ferocious. Yet the name Compsognathus means 'pretty jaw!' Learn about this strange little dinosaur, from its life in the Jurassic period millions of years ago to the first discovery of its delicate fossil in Germany. Additional features to enhance comprehension include informative sidebars, a glossary of key words and phrases, sources for further research, a Did-You-Know section, and an overview of the geologic time...

The three Bear Detectives search for a dinosaur bone that is missing from the Bear Museum.

"From a 12th century fortress in the south of France, one of today's foremost French paleontologists sets out to try to solve a mystery posed nearly 150 years ago. It is here that one of the largest dinosaur nesting sites in the wordl was found. Of the hundreds of eggs that have been uncovered, all are broken, suggesting they'd hatched. But no one knows what creature laid them." --container.

Explains the names of fourteen dinosaurs, from Stegosaurus to Compsognathus, and describes their physical characteristics, size, and probable behavior.