Lowell Dingus Livres

The story of intrepid palaeontologists, the discoverers of prehistoric life, and the revelations found through their research.

Doctors Chiappe and Dingus led the research team which, on a field trip to the Patagonian desert in South America in 1997, came across an extraordinary palaeontological coup: the discovery of a kind of dinosaur maternity ward, a field of eggs 80 million years old, some of which were still unhatched. Then, on a later expedition, they found a nearly complete skeleton of a completely new species of dinosaur a 20-foot predator they named Aucasaurus, after Auca Maheuvo, the name they had given the site.

The story of the extraordinary adventures behind the man who has discovered some of the amazing wonders of natural history. Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher whose life is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, whose skeleton has captivated our collective imaginations for over a century. But that wasn’t all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary collecting campaign in Wyoming, Hatcher discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66 million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity’s own evolutionary history. Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years after Hatcher’s monumental “hunts” ended, acclaimed paleontologist Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher’s captivating expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology.

100 Jahre nach der Ausgrabung eines vollständigen Skeletts vonTyrannosaurus rex erzählen uns die Autoren von den ersten Knochenfunden im 18. Jh. bis zur Gegenwart, in der modernste Technik und DNA-Analysen mühselige Grabungsarbeiten ergänzen. Anhand von Karten, Fotos und Aufzeichnungen können wir nacherleben, wie Hermann von Meyer 1861 Archaeopteryx entdeckt, und heutige Theorien über das Aussterben - oder die Fortexistenz - der Dinosaurier nachvollziehen.