Carnivorous Dinosaurs

<p>The meat-eating dinosaurs or Theropoda include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group's members survive to this day--as birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works but this book presents 17 papers on a variety of other topics. It is organized into three parts. Part I explores morphological details that are important for understanding theropod systematics. Part II focuses on specific regions of theropod anatomy and biomechanics. Part III examines various lines of evidence that reveal something about theropods as living creatures.<br /><br />The contributors are Ronan Allain Rinchen Barsbold Kenneth Carpenter Karen Cloward Rodolfo A. Coria Philip J. Currie Peter M. Galton Robert Gay Donald M. Henderson Dong Huang James I. Kirkland Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Eva B. Koppelhus Peter Larson Junchang Lü Lorrie A. McWhinney Clifford Miles Ralph E. Molnar N. Murphy John H. Ostrom Gregory S. Paul Licheng Qiu J. Keith Rigby Jr. Bruce Rothschild Christopher B. Ruff Leonardo Salgado Frank Sanders Julia T. Sankey Judith A. Schiebout David K. Smith Barbara R. Standhardt Kathy Stokosa Darren H. Tanke François Therrien David Trexler Kelly Wicks Douglas G. Wolfe and Lowell Wood.</p>