| 1 | * The ''Utahraptor'' vs. ''Astrodon'' [[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/files/2012/01/Luis-Rey-sauropod-vs-dromaeosaur-Dec-2011-tiny.jpg image]]. |
| 2 | * The author gushing about the dinosaurs he specializes in (''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and its relatives): |
| 3 | -->"Unquestionably the coolest, most spectacular of all dinosaurs - indeed, of all living things in the history of the Earth - is ''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'!" |
| 4 | * "If a ''T. rex''-size ''Therizinosaurus'' tried [[[https://www.youtube.com/v/e81J915TEXg&hl=en&fs=1& Wing-Assisted Incline Running]]], the tree [[CaptainObvious would probably collapse]]." |
| 5 | * 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! |
| 6 | * The author criticizing terms like "sauropod" and "ornithopod" for being inaccurate or imprecise -- he tends to get very comically angry about this and express impatience about getting better terminology. |
| 7 | * "... a great explosion of specialized, sophisticated (and to tyrannosaurs - ''tasty!'') iguanodontians called Hadrosauroidea." |
| 8 | * On the fighting dinosaurs fossil: "Because the nearest veterinarian was 80 million years away, the raptor would have almost certainly died from that wound." |
| 9 | * The very fact that the ''scientific data table'' at the end of the book contains ''exclamation marks''. Special mention goes to the little note on the etymology of ''Torosaurus'': |
| 10 | --> "Perforated lizard ([[InsistentTerminology not bull lizard!]])" |
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