A collection
Dinosaurs
The non-avian dinosaurs — Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and the field guide of an order that ruled the planet for 165 million years before the asteroid arrived.
Dinosaurs (clade Dinosauria) dominated terrestrial ecosystems from the late Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous — roughly 245 to 66 million years ago — a span fifty times longer than the entire history of the genus Homo. The non-avian dinosaurs disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction, but their lineage did not: every modern bird is a surviving theropod dinosaur, more closely related to Tyrannosaurus than to any other living animal. This collection illustrates the non-avian dinosaurs in the woodcut tradition of 19th-century paleontological reconstruction — Charles Knight, Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Marsh — when the field was new and the engravings appeared in the same scientific journals as the fossil descriptions themselves.
