Furthering Self Study

[LONEWOLF <s086529@student.uq.edu.au>]

Good day all, 

I am a new member to the list and had a few queries for the many experts
that I perceive to be on this list based on the highly technical stuff
I've been thrilled with these last few days. 

1. I have always been fascinated by dinosaurs, although I did not choose
to go on to study about them in a university course. I've read and
understood most of the material from books like David Norman's
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dinosaurs and Robert T Bakker's highly
absorbing The Dinosaur Heresies. However, I'd like to now go just a
little bit further and was wondering, what would be a good book to go on
to next? I'd like to slowly absorb the more scientific aspects of
dinosaur study on my own, but still not have to make the leap from what
I've read to something extremely dry and technical. I'd really like to
learn about stuff like pygostyles and furculae.

2. I've had a few books that were suggested to me, but it seems that the
taxonomy is always changing and you've got all sorts of new
classifications and discoveries every year. I'd like something relatively
up to date. 

3. Are there any good websites on the net from which I might begin my
self studies?

4.I've just started reading up on new discoveries and was pretty
astounded. Seems that each new discovery that is made is based less and
less on complete specimens so that we don't really know emphatically
about their anatomy, but are educated postulations and guesses based on a
remnant or bone. Is this true? Has there been any significant new
discoveries with more complete specimens?


5. Finally, I've seen some new creatures that I thought, to my limited
knowledge anyway, were pretty new, such as amagrasaurus and
giganotosaurus, but then realised that they were pretty old discoveries.
Apparently not much is told about them in the layman's sources. I'd love
to know about unusual dinosaurs such as shunosaurus, which as I
understand actually have a tail club at the end. On the other hand,
creatures that I thought were already known from way back, such as
longisquama, I found out on this list has not even been described yet.
What's with this?

Thanks a lot, guys. I'd appreciate answers or guidelines to any of the
above queries.

Greg