Bigger Than T-Rex

About this book

In 1993 a giant bone was discovered by an amateur fossil hunter in the badlands of central Argentina. The two paleontologists who were summoned to the site thought it was the thigh of a plant-eating dinosaur but further examination showed it to be the shin of a previously unknown species of predatory dinosaur. Bigger Than T-Rex is an account of the excavation of the fossil and the subsequent reconstruction of a dinosaur thought to have been bigger heavier and fiercer than the reigning "king" of the meat-eaters Tyrannosaurus rex. In clear easy-to-follow language dinosaur expert Don Lessem explains how the scientists drew conclusions about the size and habits of the new species how they came to give it its name-Giganotosaurus-and how it compared to other dinosaurs. Illustrated with color photographs of the excavation and meticulously painted reconstructions of Giganotosaurus and other species here is up-to-the-minute news about dinosaur discoveries for dinophiles of all ages.