Books by Michael Brett-Surman
“This is a desktop summary of the state of dinosaur science. I think a new edition is currently in preparation and this is a hybrid between an encyclopedia and a series of longer articles dealing with all the topics of biology and evolution. It’s an opportunity to read short essays on a particular subject that’s written for a non-specialist audience. So, for example, there are lots of individual chapters, some of them dealing with the history of dinosaur discoveries, a large number of chapters on how dinosaurs ate, how they moved around, their colouring, how we use them as museum exhibits, an introduction to all the different groups of dinosaurs, how they’re related to each other and a discussion about how they became extinct, their biology, what did they eat, how fast did they grow.” Read more...
Paul Barrett, Biologist
Interviews where books by Michael Brett-Surman were recommended
Dinosaur Books, recommended by Paul Barrett
Many of the 1,200 known species of dinosaur were far more complex than we once thought. Some were brightly feathered and many were at least partly warm-blooded, explains palaeontologist and dinosaur specialist Paul Barrett. He talks us through five of the best dinosaur books, from 1980s trailblazers to the latest technical tomes.




