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The new dinosaurs: an alternative evolution
Dougal DixonSuppose that the giant meteorite had never reached the Earth 65 million years ago, that dinosaurs had continued to exist and followed predictable patterns of evolution. What would they be like today and where would they live? The New Dinosaurs takes us to this alternative world, imagining how the dinosaurs would have continued evolving over the last 65 million years if the Cretaceous-Palaeogene Extinction Event had not happened.
Dixon, author of After Man, offers some hypotheses as he takes us on a marvelous excursion into a fantasy that has the trappings of reality. In this book he uses a world setting with today's climate and continental configurations, in which the mass extinction that closed the Mesozoic era has not occurred. Dixon gives a perfectly straightforward account of theories about the Great Extinction, dinosaur evolution, habitat and distribution. Dinosaurs and the like have diversified consistent with zoogeographic and evolutionary principles and their own known fossilized morphology and diversity; mammals are small and secretive, and no humanoid has appeared. Then, denying that the Great Extinction took place, he introduces us to his nearly credible creatures in each of the seven geographic realms.
Dixon's illustrations are superb, and his imaginative descriptions of morphology, breeding behavior, feeding and nesting habits are so close to standard animal-encyclopedia style we have to remind ourselves that this is fantasy.
The Gestalt (Formisaura delacasa) of the Palearctic Realm lives in a ``thatched nest, usually around a sloping tree trunk over a stream.'' Other animals are the Gwanna and Dingum from the Australian desert, Footle and Treepounce from the Oriental rain forests. Each new dinosaur is a delightful addition to the world of imaginary animals. Not just dinosaurs either, but also creatures evolved from birds, pterosaurs, sea-reptiles and other animals.
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