by Brian Switek
New Haven
New Jersey
New Mexico
New Mexico Museum of Natural History
New York City
New York Times
New Zealand
Ngram Viewer
Niger
noises
Nopsca, Franz
Norell, Mark
North America
nose
NPR
nuclear winter
O’Hare International Airport, Chicago
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Olbort, Sven
Oldman Formation
olfactory lobes
omnivores
One Million Years B.C. (film)
ornamentation; defense and; feathers; mating and; Parasaurolophus crest; Triceratops. See also specific ornaments
ornithischians
Oryctodromeus
Osborn, Henry Fairfield
ostriches
Ostrom, John
oviducts
Oviraptor; Oviraptor philoceratops
oviraptorosaurs
Owen, Richard
oxygen
Oxyura vittata
pachycephalosaurs
Pachycephalosaurus
Padian, Kevin
Paleocene
paleontology; Bone Wars; Earl Douglass and; impact debate; O. C. Marsh and. See also specific paleontologists, sites, and museums
PaleoWorld
Paluxy River footprints
Parasaurolophus; crest
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus
Parasaurolophus tubicen
Parasaurolophus walkeri
parasites
Parker, Bill
Parks, William
pathologies
Paul, Gregory S.; Predatory Dinosaurs of the World
PBS
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University
penguins
penis
Pentaceratops
Permian extinction
pests
Peterson, Joseph
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
physiology
phytosaurs
pigeon
Placerias
plates
plesiosaurs
Pluto
Pohl, Burkhard
Poinar, George
Poland
Police, the
pop culture, dinosaurs in
Poposaurus
Postosuchus
posture
Pratchett, Terry
predators; injuries; smelling; T. rex
pregnancy
“Procheneosaurus”
Protoceratops
protofeathers
Psittacosaurus
pterosaurs
Quanguo Li
Rainbow Forest Museum, Arizona
rain forests
Raptorex
rauisuchians
Raup, David
recurrent laryngeal nerve
Reeve, Christopher
Reisz, Robert
religion
Repenomamus
reptiles; transition to birds from
Revueltosaurus
rhinos
Richardson, Scott
Ridgely, Ryan
Riggs, Elmer
Roach, Brian
Romer, Alfred Sherwood
Rothschild, Bruce
Royal Ontario Museum
Rubeosaurus
Russell, Dale
Rutgers University
sails
St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park
Salisbury, Steven
Sampson, Scott
San Francisco Chronicle
Sato, Tamaki
saurischians
saurolophines
Saurolophus
Saurophaganax
sauropodomorphs
sauropods; giant-sized
Saurosuchus
scales
Scannella, John
scavenging
Scheepers, Lue
Schweitzer, Mary
Science
Scipionyx
Sciurumimus
Scott Antarctic Expedition (1910–13)
sea level change
Seeley, Harry Govier
Segisaurus
Seismosaurus
semen
Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt
senses
Senter, Phil; “Voices of the Past: A Review of Paleozoic and Mesozoic Animal Sounds”
Sereno, Paul
Service, William
sex; neck and; ornamentation and
sexual dimorphism
sexual selection
Shakespeare, William
sharks
Shuvosaurus
Sill, William
Simmons, Robert
Simpson, George Gaylord
Sinocalliopteryx
Sinornithomimus
Sinosauropteryx
size; body temperature and; Brontosaurus; largest dinosaurs
skeleton; Allosaurus; Apatosaurus; Archaeopteryx; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; Diplodocus; disease and injury; extinction; gender and; growth and change; largest dinosaurs; pathologies; Triceratops; Tyrannosaurus rex. See also fossils; specific dinosaurs and bones
skin
skull; Apatosaurus; Brachiosaurus; Brontosaurus; crest; Diplodocus; dome; growth and change; injury; senses and; Torosaurus; Triceratops; Tyrannosaurus rex
smell
Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History
snakes
society; Allosaurus; attack and defense; bonebeds; herds; trackways
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
sounds; crest and; ears and hearing
South Africa
South America
species
sperm
Spielberg, Steven
spikes
spinal column
spinosaurs
Spinosaurus
sprawlers
Star Wars (film)
Stegosaurus; attack and defense
Sternberg, Charles H.
Sternberg, Charles Mortram
Stokeosaurus
Stout, William, The Dinosaurs
Stygimoloch
Styracosaurus
success; upright posture and
Sue
supernova
Supersaurus
Switzerland
synapsids
“Syntarsus”
syrinx
tail
Tanke, Darren
Tanzania
Taylor, Mike
teeth
television
temperature, body
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Tenontosaurus
Teratophoneus
tetrapods
Texas
Teyler Museum, Netherlands
therizinosaurs
Thermopolis, Wyoming
theropods
Thescelosaurus
Thing, The (film)
throat
Tianyulong
Tiktaalik
Time Life Young Readers Nature Library
Tippett, Phil
toes
Toroceratops
Torosaurus; skull
Torvosaurus
tourism
Trachodon
trackways
trauma. See disease and injury
Triassic; archosaurs
Triceratops; attack and defense; debate; growth and change; skull
Triceratops horridus
Triceratops prorsus
Trichomonas gallinae
trilobites
Troodon
Tucker, Wallace
Tully monster
turtles
Tyrannosaurus rex; disease and injury; feathers; Jane; juvenile; as predator; as scavenger; sex; skeleton; skull; Sue
Ultrasaurus
University of California, Berkeley
University of Iowa
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of Rhode Island
University of Utah
Unknown Island (film)
upright posture
Utah
Utahceratops
Utahraptor
Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum
Valley of the Moon, Argentina
Varricchio, David
Velociraptor
vertebrate family tree
Vinther, Jakob
vision
Vittore, Christopher
volcanoes
Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!
Walters, Bob
Wang, Steve
webbing
Wedel, Matt
weight
Weil, Anne
Weishampel, David
Werner, Jan
Werning, Sarah
whales
Whitaker, George
White, Tim
Wieland, George
wildebeest
Wilfarth, Martin
Wilford, John Noble, The Riddle of the Dinosaur
Williams, Scott
Williston, Samuel
Willo
Wiman, Carl
wishbone
Witmer, Lawrence
Wittmeyer, Jennifer
Wolff, Ewan
woolly mammoth
World’s Fair (1964)
World War I
Wyoming
Wyoming Dinosaur Center
Xiaotingia
Xilousuchus
Xu Xing
Yale University; Peabody Museum
Yellowstone
Young, Neil
YouTube
Yucatan Peninsula
Yutyrannus
Zallinger, Rudolph; Age of Reptiles; Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Reptiles
Zelenitsky, Darla
Zhang Fucheng
Ziegler, Thomas
Zimmer, Carl, Parasite Rex
Also by Brian Switek
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
A Note About the Author
Brian Switek is an online columnist for National Geographic and is the author of Written in Stone. He has contributed to Smithsonian, Wired, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Scientific American, and other publications. His examinations of fossil discoveries have been featured by the BBC and NPR. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. You can visit his website at www.brianswitek.com.
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First edition, 2013
An excerpt from My Beloved Brontosaurus originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American.
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Switek, Brian.
My beloved Brontosaurus: on the road with old bones, new science, and our favorite dinosaurs / Brian Switek. — First edition.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-374-13506-5 (hardback)
1. Apatosaurus—Miscellanea. 2. Paleontology—Miscellanea. 3. Popular culture. I. Title.
QE862.S3 S94 2013
567.913'8—dc23
2012034530
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