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• There are many dinosaur-related books out there of various levels of quality. Below are some of the better ones, in our humble opinion. Click a link to view the product page on Amazon for details and reviews. If it tickles your fancy, stick it in your basket and checkout. The downside? If you want to own it, cash must change hands. The upside? You'll get to feel some real paper between your fingers (remember that?) and we'll get a miniscule percentage by way of commision, so the kids won't starve and we can feed our chocolate chip hazelnut cookie addiction. It's a good system ;-)
• Also, you'll need to be checking out sites like PlosOne and other open access publishers where you can read the latest papers on the latest discoveries for free. Be warned though; you need to be familiar with "the jargon" to make sense of them.
• Finally, don't be afraid to email paleontologists if you can't find answers to your pressing questions elswhere. We do it all the time. They're mostly a friendly bunch who are only too happy to help. Keep your queries on topic though; they won't know where your car keys are or how long your pizza needs to be in the oven!

GENERAL "COFFEE TABLE" BOOKS:
• Jean Le Loeuff (2025) What Did Dinosaurs Think About?
Dean Lomax and Bob Nicholls (2025) The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs: Unearthing the Real Behaviours of Prehistoric Animals.
• Mark P. Witton (2025) King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus.
• David W.E. Hone (2024) Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know.
• David W.E. Hone (2022) The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know.
• Steve Brusatte (2019) The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World.
• Adrienne Mayor (2011) The First Fossil Hunters: Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times.
• Michael J. Benton (2020) Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology.
• Darren Naish and Paul Barrett (2018 Dinosaurs: how they lived and evolved.
• Mark Hallett and Matt Wedel (2016) The Sauropod Dinosaurs: Life in the Age of Giants.
• Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz and James O. Farlow (2012) The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition.
• Thomas R. Holtz, jr. (2007) The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages.
• Gregory Paul (2011) The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs.
• Darren Naish (2009) The Great Dinosaur Discoveries.
• Michael J. Benton (2009) Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth.
• L. Chiappe and L.M. Witmer (2002) Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs.
• David Lambert (2003) Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life.
• Robert Bakker (1986) The Dinosaur Heresies.
• Steve Parker (2016) Dinosaurus: The Complete Guide to Dinosaurs.
• Nicholas Fraser and Douglas Henderson (2006) Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic.
• Pei-ji Chen, Yuan Wang, Yuan-qing Wang, Mee-Mann Chang (2008) The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants.
STUDENTS AND REFERENCE:
• Michael K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz and James O. Farlow (2012) The Complete Dinosaur, Second Edition.
• Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (2005) The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone: Deciphering Biology with Fine-Scale Techniques.
• Stephen L. Brusatte (2012) Dinosaur Paleobiology (TOPA Topics in Paleobiology).
• Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (2004) The Dinosauria, Second Edition.
• David Batten (2011) English Wealden Fossils (Field Guide to Fossils Number 14).
• William T. Blows (2015) British Polacanthid Dinosaurs: Observations on the History and Palaeontology of the UK Polacanthid Armoured Dinosaurs and Their Relatives (Monograph Series).
• Richard G. Bromley (2016) Trace Fossils: Biology, Taxonomy and Applications.
• David Weishampel (2003) The Dinosaur Papers.
• Euan Clarkson (1998) Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution.
• Philip J. Currie and Kevin Padian (1997) Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs.
• Christopher McGowan (1999) A Practical Guide to Vertebrate Mechanics.
• Hans-Dieter Sues and Nicholas Fraser (2010) Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition.
• David E. Fastovsky and David B. Weishampel (2009) Dinosaurs: A Concise Natural History.
• Donald Glut (2012) Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia.
HISTORY OF RESEARCH AND DISCOVERIES:
• David Hone (2022) The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know.
• Paul Brinkman (2010) The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.
• Gerhard Maier (2003) African Dinosaurs Unearthed: the Tendaguru Expeditions.
• Christopher McGowan (2001) The Dragon Seekers: How an Extraordinary Circle of Fossilists Discovered the Dinosaurs and Paved the Way for Darwin.
• John H. Ostrom (2000) Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff.
• Charles Gallenkamp (2000) Dragon Hunter: Roy Chapman Andrews and the Central Asiatic Expeditions.
• Katherine Rogers (1991) The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty.
• Roy Chapman Andrews (2013) Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure.
• Dr Allan Chapman (2020) Caves, Coprolites and Catastrophes: The Story of Pioneering Geologist and Fossil-Hunter William Buckland.
• Lukas Rieppel (2019) Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle.
SPECIFIC AREAS:
United Kingdom
• Dean R. Lomax and Nobumichi Tamura (2014) Dinosaurs of the British Isles.
• David M. Martill and Darren Naish (2001) Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight.
• David Batten (2011) English Wealden Fossils (Field Guide to Fossils Number 14).
• William T. Blows (2015) British Polacanthid Dinosaurs: Observations on the History and Palaeontology of the UK Polacanthid Armoured Dinosaurs and Their Relatives (Monograph Series).
Africa
• Gerhard Maier (2003) African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions.
• Louis Jacobs (2000) Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World.
• Jamale Ijouiher (2022) The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa (Life of the Past).
• William E. Nothdurft (2003) The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt: The Astonishing and Unlikely True Story of One of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Paleontological Discoveries.
Antarctica
• Thomas A. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich (2000) Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World.
• Jeffrey D. Stilwell and John A. Long (2011) Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica.
Asia
• Michael J. Benton (2008) The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia.
• Pei-ji Chen, Yuan Wang, Yuan-qing Wang and Mee-Mann Chang (2008) The Jehol Fossils: The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants.
• Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin (2016) Birds of stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs.
• Michael Novacek (1997) Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs.
Europe
• P. Godefroit (2012) Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems.
• David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu (2011) Transylvanian Dinosaurs.
• Angel Galobart, Maite Suner and Begona Poza (2011) Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia.
• Cristiano Dal Sasso (2005) Dinosaurs of Italy.
• Thomas Martin and Bernhard Krebs (2000) Guimarota: A Jurassic Ecosystem.
Oceania
• John A. Long (1998) Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and Other Animals of the Mesozoic Era.
• Benjamin P. Kear, Robert J. Hamilton-Bruce, Tim Flannery (2011) Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent.
North America
• Richard Hilton (2004) Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of California.
• Hector E. Rivera-Sylva, Kenneth Carpenter, Eberhard Frey (2014) Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico.
• Philip J. Currie and Eva B. Koppelhus (2005) Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed.
• Alan L. Titus and Mark A. Loewen (2013) At the Top of the Grand Staircase: The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah.
• Frank De Courten (1998) Dinosaurs of Utah.
• John Foster (2007) Jurassic West: Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world || Second Edition.
South America
• Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho (2021) Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana.
• Fernando E. Novas (2009) The Age of Dinosaurs in South America.
• Zulma Gasparini, Rodolfo A. Coria and Leonardo Salgado (2007) Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles.
IDEAL FOR CHILDREN:
• Dan Peel (2019) The World's Most Amazing Dinosaurs: The biggest, fiercest and weirdest.
• Robert Mash (2007) Extreme dinosaurs.
• Henry Gee and Luis V. Rey (2012) A Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook for Travelers in the Mesozoic.
• National Geographic Society (2008) The Dinosaur Museum: An Unforgettable, Interactive Virtual Tour Through Dinosaur History.
• National Geographic Kids (2010) The Ultimate Dinopedia: The Most Complete Dinosaur Reference Ever.
• Luis Rey (2001) Extreme Dinosaurs.
• Luis Rey (2019) Extreme Dinosaurs! Part 2.
• Nigel Marvin (2007) Dinosaurs.
• Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart (2005) Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs.
• Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart (2006) Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters.
Not dinosaurs but interesting non-the-less:
• Xiaoming Wang (2010) Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History.
• Michael J. Everhart (2017) Oceans of Kansas, A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea.
• David M. Unwin (2005) The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time.
• Donald R. Prothero (2016) The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals.
• Baz Edmeads (2021) Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction.
• Anthony J. Stuart (2022) Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age.
• Dean Lomax D and Bob Nichols (2021) Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils.
• Gregory S. Paul (2022) The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs.

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