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My Beloved Brontosaurus

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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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  Copyright © 2013 by Brian Switek

  All rights reserved

  First edition, 2013

  An excerpt from My Beloved Brontosaurus originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  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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