Who doesn’t know the scene from “Jurassic Park”? Tim and Lex hide from two hungry people in a commercial kitchen Velociraptors and only with difficulty escape the clever dinosaurs. Fans are happy to forgive the fact that this species was not as big as depicted in the film, but rather smaller than a turkey. Especially since those interested can read in the illustrated book “Among Dinos” that there actually was an animal with similarly large claws: the Utahraptor.
The illustrated book also works independently of the BBC series of the same name, co-produced by ZDF and France Télévisions. He takes readers on a journey to current excavations in the US state of Utah and the Canadian state of Alberta. The story is divided into six chapters about selected species, their habitats and their social behavior. For example, readers learn that a… Albertosaurus did not hunt and live alone, but in a pack. Of course, the crowd favorite is also missing Tyrannosaurus rex not. Him and the one living at the same time Triceratops there is an entire chapter dedicated to it. We also get to know the people to whom we owe all our knowledge about dinosaurs: On the one hand, the illustrated book reports on new scientific findings from the interdisciplinary research teams active today. On the other hand, it is a homage to the pioneers of paleontology. Salome Berblinger
Andrew Cohen, Helen Thomas, Kirsty Wilson
Among dinosaurs
Publisher Dorling Kindersley, 256 pages, €29.95
ISBN 978-3-8310-5252-3