If I were, at about age twenty as a budding paleozoologist and paleoartist, handed a copy of this book by a mysterious time traveler, I would have been shocked as well as delighted. The pages would have revealed a world of new sauropod and related dinosaurs and ideas that I barely had a hint of or had no idea existed at all. My head would have spun at the revelation of the neck spines of Amargasaurus and of sauropods so colossal that they not only gave the giant baleen whales a run for their money in terms of sheer  bulk but could feed over six stories high in tree crowns—and took only a few decades to get to those sizes!

I have been a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast. At the age of four, I created what my mother has dubbed my “first research paper”: a stack of illustrations of every different species I could find throughout the pages of my many dinosaur books.

I have been a lifelong dinosaur enthusiast. At the age of four, I created what my mother has dubbed my “first research paper”: a stack of illustrations of every different species I could find throughout the pages of my many dinosaur books. I’ve collected dinosaur books throughout my life, and recently I embarked on a search for a very specific sort of tome: a truly comprehensive, informative, encyclopedic collection of all known dinosaurs. Needless to say, a wide variety of dinosaur-themed texts have been available throughout the years, but try as I might, I couldn’t locate any volume that really fit the bill.

Динозавры – одни из самых поразительных животных, когда-либо существовавших на Земле. Появившись в триасовом периоде около 230 млн лет назад, они царствовали на суше в течение последующих юрского (от 201 до 145 млн лет назад) и мелового периодов (от 145 до 66 млн лет назад). За это время динозавры заселили все континенты и породили сотни различных видов, из которых на сегодняшний день открыто более тысячи.