I know there is a question: the child said to raise a dinosaur, what should I do?
Before, I always thought boys liked dinosaurs. The reality is, it seems like every kid loves dinosaurs. The three-year-old girl screams every time she sees a dinosaur on the screen.
Recalling my memories of dinosaurs, the earliest is the high school. At that time, there was a class, "Nature", and the teacher talked about "dinosaurs". Most of them are because the dinosaurs are extinct and full of mystery, so we like it. Then there was the TV series "Dinosaur Express", in which "Xai" was a bit like today's "Ultraman". Every time a dinosaur encounters danger, "Kesai" will travel back to the age of dinosaurs to protect the dinosaurs. Yes, it was an earlier "crossover drama". At that time, each of our children liked "Kesai" very much, just like every child now likes to do "Ultraman".
However, we don't know much about dinosaurs. Only they are known to be extinct in the Cretaceous Period. If one day we can reach the era when dinosaurs lived, it will be extremely happy.
This is a popular science book and craft book that introduces the 20 most well-known dinosaurs and the age of their existence. Dinosaurs appeared in the Triassic, flourished in the Jurassic, extinct in the Cretaceous, each era has several particularly well-known dinosaurs, this book details 20 of them, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, Lepiosaurus, Triceratops, etc., each dinosaur has a "file card" about its basic information, as well as accurate full-color restoration map. In addition, at the end of the book is attached a timeline and components of each dinosaur, assemble them and you will get a panoramic stereoscopic model of the dinosaur era.
Richard Ferguson designed and graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Richard has designed more than 150 children's picture books with paper art. He is the author of a number of highly creative book works, such as "The Story of the Stars" and "POP" series, which are widely praised by readers around the world.
Isabel Thomas is an English children's literature writer based in Cambridge, England. She graduated from Oxford University and currently works on more than 100 works, mostly on the themes of nature and science, for children and teenagers. His work How to Change the World was nominated for the 2016 Royal Society Youth Book of the Year Award, and What You Need to Know was shortlisted for the Blue Peter Children's Book Award. We have published her work The Long Sticker Strip.
Aude Van Ryn, a graduate of central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal Academy of Arts. She has held several illustration exhibitions and has been exhibited in galleries in London and Tokyo.
In particular, the translator and reviewer of this book is Liao Junqi, who is a dinosaur research scholar at the Institute of Paleovertebrates of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a doctoral student at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an authority on dinosaur knowledge.
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Having read The Story of Miyazido's Healing Dinosaurs, and also read the real-life version of "Dinosaurs in Battle" story of Mitsuhiro Kurokawa, we should also understand dinosaurs very professionally.
To tell the truth, just a few days ago I wrote the name of a "dinosaur" wrong, which was debunked by students in public, embarrassing!
Dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic Period, 230 million years ago. "Dinosaur" means a terrifying and huge reptile. This time will not forget!
1. Classification
Scientists have divided dinosaurs into two main broad categories based on the morphology of the pelvis: ornithopods (dinosaurs that resemble birds) and sauropods (lizard-like dinosaurs with waists). Ornithischian dinosaurs evolved over millions of years, such as Stegosaurus and Platylos. Sauropods include the T. rex as we know it.
2. Error correction: Dinosaurs are not the hegemons of the world as soon as they appear.
Most children will think that dinosaurs are the deserved overlords of their time. This is not the case. Dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic, but until the end of the Triassic period, dinosaurs did not occupy the dominant position. In the Triassic Period, the main dragons were the hegemons of the world, and the reptiles of that time were small and ran on two legs.
3. Private files
There is a fourth-grade text" "Dinosaurs Flying to the Blue Sky", which is a popular science essay about dinosaurs evolving into birds. The kids were very interested! I also remember the Archaeopteryx fossils I learned in my nature class as a child. At that time, it was determined that Archaeopteryx was conclusive evidence that reptiles evolved into birds!
Here, the author uses the narration of the opening song from the cartoon "Superman", using the words "Is that a bird?" Is it an airplane? Still is...... dinosaur? "Introduction of Archaeopteryx.
However, Archaeopteryx is not a bird, nor is it the ancestor of birds.
It is a dinosaur.
Archaeopteryx flaps its wings not to take off but to glide or maintain balance when pouncing on prey, and the feathers on its wings are mainly used to keep warm.
"Back to the Age of Dinosaurs" introduces 20 species of dinosaurs. Every dinosaur is introduced in an "archival" way. Detailed records of the origin of the name, the type of species, the age of survival, the survival of, the diet, the first naming, the length of the adult, the height of the adult, the weight and the place where the dinosaur was found.
There is also a special glossary, arranged in alphabetical order. If in the process of reading, there are words that you do not understand, you can look up here, which is very convenient.
For example, the equator, an imaginary line that divides the Earth into two hemispheres, north and south.
Personally, I think this explanation is very good, which can not only relieve the child's confusion, but also induce the child to further explore.
What kind of line? Where can I see it?
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"Rat Dragon" is really the first time I know this name. Really, as the author says, "dinosaurs" are terrifying animals. Huge, fierce, domineering, these words have long been in line with dinosaurs.
The name of the rat dragon is closely related to the process by which scientists discovered it. Because it was originally found to be a very small dinosaur skeleton, only 20 centimeters long, it was named Rataurus. Later studies found that it was just a baby dinosaur.
The Rat Dragon File Card shows that adult rats are 3 meters long, 80 cm high, and weigh 100 kg. Although not very large, it is far more than rats. However, when the rat dragon was born, it was only 3 centimeters long, which was indeed "little cute".
Herrera Dragon takes its name from an Argentine herder Victorino. Herrera, because it was this herdsman who led the experts to discover the fossil of Herrera's dragon.
The first thief, originally named after it based on its physical characteristics, meaning it was as swift and fierce as a bandit. In fact, it is closer to the giant plant-eating sauropod dinosaurs. There is also a theory that The Archaeopteryx may not even have been a dinosaur, but belonged to the main dragon class.
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There is a picture on the back cover and the cover that is connected, which is this wonderful timeline of the dinosaur era. Coincidentally, this picture can be made by hand.
Pull the timeline out of your pocket.
The corresponding dinosaur is taken from the front page and combined to make a dinosaur scene model on the back cover.
It's both a hands-on experience and a review of the entire book.
Children can have a very systematic and complete understanding of the era of dinosaur existence, which is not possible in other dinosaur books.