Hannah Bonner

DINING WITH DINOSAURS. A TASTY GUIDE TO MESOZOIC MUNCHING

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Dining with Dinosaurs takes the reader on a tour of who ate whom (and what) in the Mesozoic. It covers all aspects of the ancient food web, from enormous long-neck herbivores to teensy blood-drinking fleas. Each double page spread focuses on a particular group of “vores”: carnivores, insectivores, herbivores, piscivores, and, where existing names are too clumsy, made-up ones come into play. Thus we learn about the sunivores (the plants -- they “eat” sunlight) and the trashivores, those lowly recyclers of nutrients without whom nothing would decompose and life would grind to a halt. Interspersed are comic-style interviews with real scientists who share their knowledge and insights. Get ready to be amused, surprised, and maybe even a bit grossed out when you learn what was on the prehistoric menu.