Dinosaur Hunters: Eccentric Amateurs and Obsessed Professionals

by David Spalding

Dinosaur Hunters takes the reader on an unforgettable journey across the landscape of time, from Mongolia to Montana, from the beginning of the scientific search in the 1800s to the latest discoveries surrounding the theories of dinosaur evolution, including the question of whether or not the dinosaurs ever really became extinct. This is the human drama of the eccentrics and the professionals who hunted the fossils and who, to this day, shape our understanding of the creatures that dominated the planet for millions of years. Just as the dinosaurs themselves excite our imagination, the story of their discoverers fascinates and enlightens. Dinosaur Hunters is no dry recounting of scientific facts, but rather the behind-the-scenes truth about the passions, prejudices, and obsessions that are all a part of the process of discovery. This thrilling story of the past one hundred fifty years of discoveries in the field and in the back rooms of museums belongs in every dinosaur lover's library!

Genres: Science, Dinosaurs

320 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 1993

Reviews

[Jimmy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A pretty good history of dinosaur paleontology, although (as is common with books of this type) it is riddled with evolutionary garbage throughout the book. I still might have given it three stars but the author decided to frame the creation-evolution debate as "religion versus science", as if both can't be true at the same time.