Re: Furthering Self Study

["Larry Febo" <larryf@capital.net>]

<<Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 23:32:58 +0100
From: LONEWOLF <s086529@student.uq.edu.au>
To: Dinosaur ListServer <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Furthering Self Study
Message-ID: <4.0.1.19990813225410.0112ac20@student.uq.edu.au>

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.>>



Greg...,(or anyone else that has a need for an "intermediate level" course
of study in dinosaurs),... get a hold of "Dinosaurs the Textbook" by Spencer
G Lucas. It covers the basics of what defines dinosaurs pretty well, and is
not hard to follow if you have a basic biology background.  Can be purchased
used, check an internet booksearch.

As for pygostyles and furculae, we`re talking the Theropod-Bird connection
here. Check out "Taking Wing" by Pat Shipman, or for a more controversial
viewpoint, get a copy of "Mesozoic Meanderings" by DinoGeorge. (I`m still
looking myself for the "third edition"....hint ;^)