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How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Really Looked Like?
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Current format, Book, 2013, , Available now. Offered in 0 more formatsThrough illustrated full-color images, unravels the mystery of how we bring to life creatures that no one has ever seen before.
Through strikingly illustrated full-color images of some of the most beautiful and accurate dinosaur art available, a Sibert Medal-winning author/illustrator unravels the mystery of how we bring to life creatures that no one has ever seen before.
No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what color dinosaurs were? Or if their flesh was scaly or feathered? Could that fierce T.rex have been born with spots?
Sibert medalist Catherine Thimmesh unravels the mystery of how we bring to life a creature that no one has ever seen before. Strikingly illustrated with full-color images of some of the most beautiful and accurate dinosaur art available.
Through strikingly illustrated full-color images of some of the most beautiful and accurate dinosaur art available, a Sibert Medal-winning author/illustrator unravels the mystery of how we bring to life creatures that no one has ever seen before.
No human being has ever seen a triceratops or velociraptor or even the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. They left behind only their impressive bones. So how can scientists know what color dinosaurs were? Or if their flesh was scaly or feathered? Could that fierce T.rex have been born with spots?
In a first for young readers, the Sibert medalist Catherine Thimmesh introduces the incredible talents of the paleoartist, whose work reanimates gone-but-never-forgotten dinosaurs in giant full-color paintings that are as strikingly beautiful as they aim to be scientifically accurate, down to the smallest detail. Follow a paleoartist through the scientific process of ascertaining the appearance of various dinosaurs from millions of years ago to learn how science, art, and imagination combine to bring us face-to-face with the past.
Sibert medalist Catherine Thimmesh unravels the mystery of how we bring to life a creature that no one has ever seen before. Strikingly illustrated with full-color images of some of the most beautiful and accurate dinosaur art available.
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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