The Tiniest Giants

Read an excerpt from
The Tiniest Giants:
Discovering Dinosaur Eggs
Lowell Dingus and Luis Chiappe
A Doubleday Book for Young Readers.
Forthcoming from Random House, Inc. in May 1999. ISBN: 0385326424

 

Luis Chiappe

 
 

Selected Recent Publications:

Luis M. Chiappe, Rodolfo A. Coria, Lowell Dingus, Frankie Jackson, Anusuya Chinsamy and Marilyn Fox. "Sauropod dinosaur embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia." Nature 396 (November 1998): 258-261.

Luis M. Chiappe. "Wings Over Spain." Natural History (September 1998): 30-32.

Luis M. Chiappe, Mark A. Norell, and James M. Clark. "The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus." Nature 392 (March 1998): 275-278.

Catherine A. Forster, Scott D. Sampson, Luis M. Chiappe, and David W. Krause. "The Theropod Ancestry of Birds: New Evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar." Science 279 (March 1998): 1915-1919.
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Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe. "The origin of birds and their flight." Scientific American (February 1998): 28-37.

Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe. "The origin and early evolution of birds." Biol. Rev. 73 (1998): 1-42.
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José L. Sanz, Luis M. Chiappe, Bernardino P. Pérez-Moreno, José J. Moratalla, Francisco Hernández-Carrasquilla, Angela D. Buscalioni, Francisco Ortega, Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza, Diego Rasskin-Gutman, and Xavier Martínez-Delclòs. "A Nestling Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain: Implications for Avian Skull and Neck Evolution." Science 276 (June 1997): 1543-1546.

Catherine A. Forster, Luis M. Chiappe, David W. Krause and Scott D. Sampson. "The first Cretaceous bird from Madagascar." Nature 382 (August 1996): 532-534.

L. M. Chiappe and A. Chinsamy. "Pterodaustro's true teeth." Nature 379 (January 1996): 211-212.

Luis M. Chiappe . "The first 85 million years of avian evolution." Nature 378 (November 1995): 349-355.
Click here to read about this Review Article.

Luis M. Chiappe. "A Diversity of Early Birds." Natural History 6 (1995): 52-55.

 

Lowell Dingus

 
Next of Kin

Next of Kin: Great Fossils at the American Museum of Natural History
Lowell Dingus
Rizzoli;1996, ISBN: 0847819299

Illustrated with beautiful new color and archival photography, Next of Kin is an in-depth look at the Halls of Vertebrate Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History, with provocative questions about long-extinct species and the mysteries of life on Earth. --continue--

 

 

 

Searching for Velociraptor

Searching for Velociraptor
Lowell Dingus and Mark A. Norell
Harpercrest; 1996, ISBN: 0060258942

In an exciting story of search and discovery, two of the country's top paleontologists describe their recent expedition to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Readers travel along with the scientists as they make a spectacular find, then travel back to the Museum to study their find. --continue--

 

 

 
The Mistaken Extinction

The Mistaken Extinction: Dinosaur Evolution and the Origin of Birds
Lowell Dingus and Timothy Rowe
W H Freeman & Co; 1997, ISBN: 071672944X

For centuries, science has been searching for clues to the disappearance of the dinosaurs without answering a critical question--Are all the dinosaurs really extinct? --continue--

 

 

 

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