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Dean Lomax uses scientific research and personal experiences to guide readers through the process of discovering details of long-extinct animals’ lives. The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs takes complex paleontological ideas and explains them in an approachable and easy-to-understand way. -- Kallie Moore, co-host of PBS <i>Eons</i> Dean Lomax describes some amazing fossils that show the intimate lives of ancient organisms, from reproduction and birth to feeding, locomotion, and illnesses. There are dinosaurs here, but also other fossil reptiles, mammals, fishes, ammonites, and others. Lomax shows you the fossils, describes the discoveries and the discoverers, while Bob Nicholls provides stunning artwork to reveal some of the amazing lives of our ancestors. -- Michael Benton, Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Bristol

Dean Lomax uses scientific research and personal experiences to guide readers through the process of discovering details of long-extinct animals’ lives. The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs takes complex paleontological ideas and explains them in an approachable and easy-to-understand way. -- Kallie Moore, co-host of PBS <i>Eons</i>

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Dean R. Lomax is an internationally recognized paleontologist, author, television presenter, and science communicator. A leading authority on ichthyosaurs, he is an honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester and an 1851 Research Fellow at the University of Bristol. He is the author of more than ten books. Bob Nicholls is a world-renowned natural history artist who specializes in the reconstruction of prehistoric animals, plants, and environments. His illustrations and models have been published in more than forty books and exhibited in museums, universities, and visitor attractions around the world. Lomax is the author and Nicholls is the illustrator of Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Columbia, 2021).

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