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Public enthusiasm for dinosaurs first developed in Victorian England, where in 1854, three decades after the first scientific descriptions of dinosaur remains, a menagerie of lifelike dinosaur sculptures was unveiled in London's Crystal Palace Park. The Crystal Palace dinosaurs proved so popular that a strong market in smaller replicas soon developed. In subsequent decades, dinosaur exhibits opened at parks and museums around the world, ensuring that successive generations would be introduced to the animals in an immersive and exciting way. [330] The enduring popularity of dinosaurs, in its turn, has resulted in significant public funding for dinosaur science, and has frequently spurred new discoveries. In the United States, for example, the competition between museums for public attention led directly to the Bone Wars of the 1880s and 1890s, during which a pair of feuding paleontologists made enormous scientific contributions. [331] Padian, Kevin, ed. (1986). The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. Vol.8. San Francisco, CA: California Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-0-940228-14-6. OCLC 946083441. OL 9826926M. Ornithopoda (various sizes; bipeds and quadrupeds; evolved a method of chewing using flexible skulls and many teeth)

Sereno, P.C.; Forster, Catherine A.; Rogers, Raymond R.; Monetta, Alfredo M. (1993). "Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria". Nature. 361 (6407): 64–66. Bibcode: 1993Natur.361...64S. doi: 10.1038/361064a0. S2CID 4270484. Matthew G. Baron; Megan E. Williams (2018). "A re-evaluation of the enigmatic dinosauriform Caseosaurus crosbyensis from the Late Triassic of Texas, USA and its implications for early dinosaur evolution". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 63. doi: 10.4202/app.00372.2017. Nesbitt, Sterling J. (2011). "The Early Evolution of Archosaurs: Relationships and the Origin of Major Clades". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. New York: American Museum of Natural History. 2011 (352): 1–292. doi: 10.1206/352.1. hdl: 2246/6112. ISSN 0003-0090. S2CID 83493714. Archived from the original on February 29, 2016 . Retrieved October 16, 2019. Dinosaurs were, at the start, small and bipedal: they walked on their hind legs. They laid eggs in nests, and included both carnivores and herbivores. We now know that birds are their living descendents, and more about that later. Mayr, Gerald (2009). Paleogene Fossil Birds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-89628-9. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2. LCCN 2008940962. OCLC 916182693. S2CID 88941254 . Retrieved October 30, 2019.Chiappe, Luis M.; Witmer, Lawrence M., eds. (2002). Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-20094-4. LCCN 2001044600. OCLC 901747962. Arbour, V. (2018). "Results roll in from the dinosaur renaissance". Science. 360 (6389): 611. Bibcode: 2018Sci...360..611A. doi: 10.1126/science.aat0451. S2CID 46887409. Using the tree for classification". Understanding Evolution. Berkeley: University of California. Archived from the original on August 31, 2019 . Retrieved October 14, 2019. Did any terrestrial dinosaurs survive the great extinction event? Yes they did, because we now know that birds are descended from dinosaurs. But dinosaurs as generally understood were eliminated. Several fossils have been found in the Hell Creek Formation about 40,000 years later than the K/T extinction event. Many scientists dismiss the " Paleocene dinosaurs" as re-worked, that is, washed out of their original places and then re-buried in much later sediments. [24] An associated skeleton (e.g. more than one bone from the same individual) found above the K/T boundary would be convincing, but no such finds have been reported.

Books about dinosaurs have been popular, especially with children, but adults have also enjoyed these kinds of books. In Edwardian times, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel about a plateau filled with dinosaurs which he called The Lost World. Paul, Gregory S. (1988). Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-61946-6. LCCN 88023052. OCLC 859819093 . Retrieved October 30, 2019. Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka, eds. (2004). The Dinosauria (2nded.). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-25408-4. LCCN 2004049804. OCLC 154697781.

A detailed assessment of archosaur interrelations by Sterling Nesbitt [31] confirmed or found the following twelve unambiguous synapomorphies, some previously known: The smallest dinosaur known is the bee hummingbird, [156] with a length of only 5 centimeters (2.0in) and mass of around 1.8g (0.063oz). [157] The smallest known non- avialan dinosaurs were about the size of pigeons and were those theropods most closely related to birds. [158] For example, Anchiornis huxleyi is currently the smallest non-avialan dinosaur described from an adult specimen, with an estimated weight of 110g (3.9oz) [159] and a total skeletal length of 34 centimeters (1.12ft). [158] [159] The smallest herbivorous non-avialan dinosaurs included Microceratus and Wannanosaurus, at about 60 centimeters (2.0ft) long each. [160] [161] Behavior A nesting ground of the hadrosaur Maiasaura peeblesorum was discovered in 1978 a b c d Weishampel, Dodson & Osmólska 2004, pp.7–19, chpt. 1: "Origin and Relationships of Dinosauria" by Michael J. Benton. Megaraptora (theropods with large hand claws; either carnosaurs or coelurosaurs, potentially tyrannosauroids) Sarjeant, William A.S., ed. (1995). Vertebrate Fossils and the Evolution of Scientific Concepts: Writings in Tribute to Beverly Halstead, by Some of His Many Friends. ISBN 978-2-88124-996-9. ISSN 0026-7775. LCCN 00500382. OCLC 34672546. {{ cite book}}: |journal= ignored ( help) "Reprint of papers published in a special volume of Modern geology [v. 18 (Halstead memorial volume), 1993], with five additional contributions.--Pref."

Tanner, Lawrence H.; Spielmann, Justin A.; Lucas, Spencer G., eds. (2013). "The Triassic System: New Developments in Stratigraphy and Paleontology". Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. 61. ISSN 1524-4156. OCLC 852432407 . Retrieved October 21, 2019.Lessem, Don; Glut, Donald F. (1993). The Dinosaur Society's Dinosaur Encyclopedia. Illustrations by Tracy Lee Ford; scientific advisors, Peter Dodson, et al. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0-679-41770-5. LCCN 94117716. OCLC 30361459 . Retrieved October 30, 2019. Main article: Chicxulub crater Luis (left) and his son Walter Alvarez (right) at the K-T Boundary in Gubbio, Italy, 1981 The Chicxulub Crater at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula; the impactor that formed this crater may have caused the dinosaur extinction. Sternberg, Charles Mortram (1966) [Original edition published by E. Cloutier, printer to the King, 1946]. Canadian Dinosaurs. Geological Series. Vol.54 (2nded.). Ottawa: National Museum of Canada. LCCN gs46000214. OCLC 1032865683.