New Dinosaurs, The (1988)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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12.19.07
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Author: Dougal Dixon
This is a very cool book, proposing what the dinosaurs would have evolved into if they had never died out 60 million years ago. A lot of the herbivores are descended from the hadrosaurs or duck-billed dinosaurs, such as the Lank, which resembles a giraffe, the Gwanna , sort of a kangaroo and the antelope-like Sprintosaurs. The descendants of T-Rex have lost their small forearms altogether and has become a strict scavenger and new predators have emerged, such as the Cutlasstooth, which fills the niche of the saber-toothed tiger. Pterosaurs have developed into all sorts of different species, from land to water.
It's a very well thought out book and all the creatures imagined are plausible. It's a good companion piece to Dixon's AFTER MAN.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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