Remembrance of things past -- To catch a dinosaur -- Dinosaur days -- Who's related to whom : and how do we know? -- Who are the dinosaurs? -- Dinosaurs : in the beginning -- Saurischia : meat, might and magnitude -- Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and claw -- Theropoda II : meet the theropods -- Theropoda III : the origin and early evolution of birds -- Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic -- Ornithischia : armored, horned, and duck-billed dinosaur -- Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers -- Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks -- Euornithopoda : magnificent mesozoic herbivores -- Endothermy, endemism, and extinction -- Dinosaur thermoregulation : some like it hot -- The flowering of the mesozoic -- A history of paleontology through ideas -- The cretaceous, tertiary extinction : the frill is gone -- Glossary.

David E. Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island, David B. Weishampel, The John Hopkins University ; with illustrations by John Sibbick.