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* The author criticizing terms like "sauropod" and "ornithopod" for being inaccurate or imprecise.
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* The author criticizing terms like "sauropod" and "ornithopod" for being inaccurate or imprecise.imprecise -- he tends to get very comically angry about this and express impatience about getting better terminology.
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* Possibly topping everything else is the illustration on the last page of the book. Good God, the illustration on the last page of the book...
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* Possibly topping everything else is the illustration on the last page of the book. Good God, the illustration on the last page of the book...It's an author avatar showing Holtz as a ''T.Rex'' an Rey as a primitive bird, both looking very goofy.
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* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithids [note]And ''Spinosaurus'', but we didn't know that when the book was written [/note]! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
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* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithids [note]And [[note]]And ''Spinosaurus'', but we didn't know that when the book was written [/note]! [[/note]]! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
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* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithines! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
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* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithines! hesperornithids [note]And ''Spinosaurus'', but we didn't know that when the book was written [/note]! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
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* The author gushing about the dinosaurs he specializes in (''TyrannosaurusRex'' and its relatives):
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as 'king of the tyrant lizards'!"
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as 'king of the tyrant lizards'!"
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* The author gushing about the dinosaurs he specializes in (''TyrannosaurusRex'' (''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and its relatives):
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is''TyrannosaurusRex''.''Tyrannosaurus rex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as 'king of the tyrant lizards'!"
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is
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* The very fact that the ''scientific data table'' at the end of the book contains ''exclamation marks'' is a CrowningMomentOfFunny. Special mention goes to the little note on the etymology of ''Torosaurus'':
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* The very fact that the ''scientific data table'' at the end of the book contains ''exclamation marks'' is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.marks''. Special mention goes to the little note on the etymology of ''Torosaurus'':
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* "If a ''T. rex''-size ''Therizinosaurus'' tried [Wing-Assisted Incline Running], the tree [[CaptainObvious would probably collapse]]."
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* "If a ''T. rex''-size ''Therizinosaurus'' tried [Wing-Assisted [[[http://www.youtube.com/v/e81J915TEXg&hl=en&fs=1& Wing-Assisted Incline Running], Running]]], the tree [[CaptainObvious would probably collapse]]."
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-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as "king of the tyrant lizards"!
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-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as "king 'king of the tyrant lizards"!lizards'!"
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--> "Perforated lizard (not bull lizard!)"
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* "... a great explosion of specialized, sophisticated (and to tyrannosaurs ''tasty!'') iguanodontians called Hadrosauroidea."
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* "... a great explosion of specialized, sophisticated (and to tyrannosaurs - ''tasty!'') iguanodontians called Hadrosauroidea."
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* The ''Utahraptor'' vs. ''Astrodon'' [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/files/2012/01/Luis-Rey-sauropod-vs-dromaeosaur-Dec-2011-tiny.jpg image]].
* The author gushing about the dinosaurs he specializes in (''TyrannosaurusRex'' and its relatives):
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as "king of the tyrant lizards"!
* "If a ''T. rex''-size ''Therizinosaurus'' tried [Wing-Assisted Incline Running], the tree [[CaptainObvious would probably collapse]]."
* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithines! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
* The author criticizing terms like "sauropod" and "ornithopod" for being inaccurate or imprecise.
* "... a great explosion of specialized, sophisticated (and to tyrannosaurs ''tasty!'') iguanodontians called Hadrosauroidea."
* On the fighting dinosaurs fossil: "Because the nearest veterinarian was 80 million years away, the raptor would have almost certainly died from that wound."
* The very fact that the ''scientific data table'' at the end of the book contains ''exclamation marks'' is a CrowningMomentOfFunny. Special mention goes to the little note on the etymology of ''Torosaurus'':
--> "Perforated lizard (not bull lizard!)"
* Possibly topping everything else is the illustration on the last page of the book. Good God, the illustration on the last page of the book...
* The author gushing about the dinosaurs he specializes in (''TyrannosaurusRex'' and its relatives):
-->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''TyrannosaurusRex''. (Okay, I'm biased. ''T. rex'' and its closest kin are my professional specialty, and it's been my favorite dinosaur since I was a kid.) But really - it even has the best name, which translates as "king of the tyrant lizards"!
* "If a ''T. rex''-size ''Therizinosaurus'' tried [Wing-Assisted Incline Running], the tree [[CaptainObvious would probably collapse]]."
* Oddly humorous are the implications of birds being dinosaurs that the author brings to light, probably because so many other books tend to differentiate between birds and non-bird dinosaurs, even those that otherwise acknowledge the fact. The smallest dinosaur is... the bee hummingbird. The fastest dinosaur is... the peregrine falcon. There ''were'' marine dinosaurs: hesperornithines! Lambeosaurines may have been the most specialized sound makers of all dinosaurs... except for songbirds. And dinosaurs didn't go extinct!
* The author criticizing terms like "sauropod" and "ornithopod" for being inaccurate or imprecise.
* "... a great explosion of specialized, sophisticated (and to tyrannosaurs ''tasty!'') iguanodontians called Hadrosauroidea."
* On the fighting dinosaurs fossil: "Because the nearest veterinarian was 80 million years away, the raptor would have almost certainly died from that wound."
* The very fact that the ''scientific data table'' at the end of the book contains ''exclamation marks'' is a CrowningMomentOfFunny. Special mention goes to the little note on the etymology of ''Torosaurus'':
--> "Perforated lizard (not bull lizard!)"
* Possibly topping everything else is the illustration on the last page of the book. Good God, the illustration on the last page of the book...
