#dinosaur encyclopedia

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My Grandmother gave this to me in 1992, but it was actually published in 1984. It's pretty funky. I might take some photos of some of the individual pages.

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This is the same dinosaur encyclopedia I've had since before Jurassic Park came out. Getting hyped on year three of ‪#‎JurassicJune‬ starting tomorrow, the month long celebration of all things Jurassic Park and dinosaurs. I'll be posting lots of fun things through out the month, so be on the look out!

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Dinosaur Encyclopedia search

Hey all!

It's been a long time since I posted any artwork. Classes, work, and MMA training have taken over 95% of my waking hours. But I come to you today with a question:

My little nephew is almost 3 and in a huge dinosaur phase. I'm absolutely thrilled about this, not only because I love them, too, but because they had such a huge impact on my imagination and love of the natural world and natural history when I was around his age. In fact, my love of dinosaurs is really what solidified art into my life - I was always drawing them! He is two and a half, and I don't know if its just a phase or will last his life, but I want to share with him the excitement of learning about them.

So, my older sister and I are plotting to purchase him a dinosaur encyclopedia for christmas.

Although he is 2.5 right now, our intention is for when he gets older and can read. And in any event, even when I didn't have the reading comprehension for some of the more informative literature on dinosaurs, I still poured over the images with enthusiasm! I feel very strongly that he should have an informative, illustrated, accurate encyclopedia - nothing too gimmicky or campy but enough to excite. Ideally, the illustrations would show feathery dinosaurs, or at least be as scientifically accurate as one could ask. After all, you wouldn't let your child read a book that promoted spontaneous generation as a legitimate phenomenon. Why would I want him to have a book with out-of-date illustrations?

To get to the point: Do any of you, my followers, have any suggestions to point us in the right direction? I'm looking at Dinosaurs: A Visual Encyclopedia from DK, and although I'm hesitant about the lack of feathering, the typesetting and layout of the books is beautiful and the illustrations and images are some of the better ones I've seen. 

We're looking at $30, maybe $40 max.

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These are all page examples of the Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures by Dougal Dixon. IT. IS. AWESOME. (go buy it! I got it for $15AU at Allbooks4less. It was the only copy in there) There are 2000 specially commission illustrations in here. SO MANY PICTURES. I love a book with consistent art! There were 9 illustrators and the book was published in 2011 There's a note at the end that anyone who would like to use the pictures for publishing, promotions or advertising to contact www.practicalpictures.com My page examples include pages on Prehistoric horses, Australian Marsupials, Tapirs, turtles, whales and humans. The majority of the book is dedicated to dinosaurs through most of the geological periods. There are no fish or insects that I noticed when skimming through, but with 511 pages they may have been missed. There's a brief section at the start on the behaviour of some dinosaurs that has been noticed through fossils, such as large nests and possible caring of young. Also a section on the different types of environments. Oh, and the very start of the book is your usual explanation on evolution, classification for reptiles, dinosaurs, birds and mammals, dinosaur anatomy, the fosilization process, fossil excavation and info on paleontologists. None of this is hugely indepth, mostly as a general summary/reminder and to put the scale and info into context. Cool to read anyway because I've got a shocking memory! :D

ran out of space, HAVE SOME MORE PICTURES SO YOU'LL GO BUY IT. HIGHLY RECOMMENDING FOR SCIENCE NERDY PEOPLE WHO LIKE ART AND RANDOM INFO LIKE ME.

look at the skin details on my shitty photo *_* details on size, name, life style, who described it...

tapirs and rhino ancestors???

whales~

if you can't work out what this is the prehistoric ancestor of, you're a dumb fuck

kangaroo la roo la roo we bound and leap la roo la roo while you're asleep la roo la roo

i'm sorry it won't let me put a cut in