Bibliograph

How to build a dinosaur, extinction doesn't have to be forever, Jack Horner and James Gorman

Type

Label

How to build a dinosaur, extinction doesn't have to be forever, Jack Horner and James Gorman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How to build a dinosaur

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

233549535

Responsibility statement

Jack Horner and James Gorman

Sub title

extinction doesn't have to be forever

Summary

Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are poised to create a real dinosaur based on the latest breakthroughs - without using prehistoric DNA. The mystery ingredient in this recreation is the genetic code for building dinosaurs that lives on in modern birds

Table Of Contents

Hell Creek : time, space, and digging to the past -- It's a girl! : a pregnancy test for T. Rex -- Molecules are fossils, too : biological secrets in ancient bones -- Dinosaurs among us : chickens and other cousins of T. Rex -- Where babies come from : ancestors in the egg -- Wag the bird : the shrinking backbone -- Reverse evolution : experimenting with extinction -- Appendix. Chickenosaurus skeleton

resource.variantTitle

Dinosaur

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