• 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:
• Dean Lomax (2021) Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils • 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 & 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 & 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.
• Dean Lomax (2021) Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils • 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 & 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 & 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 & 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:
• 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.
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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)"
• Hector E. Rivera-Sylva, Kenneth Carpenter, Eberhard Frey (2014) Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico.
• P. Godefroit (2012) Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems.
• John A. Long (1998) Dinosaurs of Australia and New Zealand and Other Animals of the Mesozoic Era.
• Thomas A. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich (2000) Dinosaurs of Darkness: In Search of the Lost Polar World.
• Giuseppe Leonardi and Ismar de Souza Carvalho (2021) Dinosaur Tracks from Brazil: A Lost World of Gondwana.
• Philip J. Currie and Eva B. Koppelhus (2005) Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed.
• David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu (2011) Transylvanian Dinosaurs.
• 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).
• Michael J. Benton (2008) The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia.
• Fernando E. Novas (2009) The Age of Dinosaurs in South America.
• 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.
• Zulma Gasparini, Rodolfo A. Coria and Leonardo Salgado (2007) Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles.
• 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.
• Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin (2016) Birds of stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs.
• 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.
• Jeffrey D. Stilwell & John A. Long (2011) Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica.
• Benjamin P. Kear, Robert J. Hamilton-Bruce, Tim Flannery (2011) Dinosaurs in Australia: Mesozoic Life from the Southern Continent.
• 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.
• Michael Novacek (1997) "Dinosaurs of the Flaming Cliffs".
• John Foster and Dale A. Russell (2020) Jurassic West: Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world
IDEAL FOR CHILDREN:
• Robert Mash (2007) Extreme dinosaurs.
• Henry Gee & 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 & Matthew Reinhart (2005) Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Dinosaurs.
• Robert Sabuda & 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.