"Dino" Don Lessem brings readers face-to-face with various dinosaur species, detailing their habitats, way of life and how they became extinct. An acclaimed dinosaur expert, Don Lessem has written more than 30 children's books, writes a popular dinosaur column in Highlights magazine, and was an adviser for Jurassic Park. Take a trip through dinosaur time to meet these armored dinosaurs face-to-face: The thick body armor of Ankylosaurus was stronger than the teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex! Gastonia had eyelids covered with bone! Euoplocephalus could swing its tail club like a weapon! Plus, you'll get to know Edmontonia, Huayangosaurus, Minmi, Pinacosaurus, and Stegosaurus!

Describes how armor helped dinosaurs such as Albertosaurus and Edmontonia to survive attack, as well as how scientists have learned about armored dinosaurs through studying fossils.

Armored dinosaurs were four-legged tanks. To defend themselves against giant and fearsome carnivores, they evolved to have scaly body armor, club-like tails, horns, bony plates, and large spikes. Learn about this and more as your experience what the dinosaur age was like for armored dinosaurs. Illustrations on every page bring these creatures to life in all theur razor-sharp, long-necked, spiny, scaly glory.

Brings together the latest studies by an international group of dinosaur palaeontologists and provides descriptions of the original specimens of Hyaleosaurus and Stegosaurus

"Palaeontologists Victoria Arbour and David Evans take readers on a journey from the badlands of Havre, Montana, and the accidental discovery of a brand new species of dinosaur, to the bustling city of Toronto, Ontario and the dinosaur's new home at the Royal Ontario Museum."--Back cover.

Surveys the dinosaurs and other smaller prehistoric reptiles and describes many individual species.

Congratulations - your application for a Mesozoic hunting licence has been successful! Before you travel back in time and charge headlong into a pack of prehistoric big game, we strongly advise that you read the following guidebook. It will provide you with information crucial to success – and survival! You will learn the basic facts of the geography, climate and environmental conditions of the three periods that make up the exciting Mesozoic era. The book then covers the huge variety of dinosaurs that stalk these times, giving tips on identification, tracking, and the best weapons to bring them down! Let the hunt begin!