M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

James O. Farlow is Professor of Geology at Indiana University¿Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.

List of Contributors
Part One: The Discovery of Dinosaurs
1. Dinosaurs: The Earliest Discoveries
David A. E. Spalding and William A. S. Sarjeant
2. Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs
Hugh S. Torrens
3. European Dinosaur Hunters of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Hans-Dieter Sues
4. North American Dinosaur Hunters
Edwin H. Colbert, David D. Gillette, and Ralph E. Molnar
5. The Search for Dinosaurs in Asia
Corwin Sullivan, David W. E. Hone, and Xing Xu
6. Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.

Part Two: The Study of Dinosaurs
7. Hunting for Dinosaur Bones
David D. Gillette
8. The Osteology of the Dinosaurs
Thomas R. Holtz and M. K. Brett-Surman
9. Reconstructing the Musculature of Dinosaurs
David W. Dilkes, John R. Hutchinson, Casey M. Holliday, and Lawrence M. Witmer
10. Dinosaur Paleoneurology
Emily Buchholtz
11. Taxonomy of the Dinosauria
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman
12. Dinosaurs and Geologic Time
James I. Kirkland and James O. Farlow
13. Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs
Ralph E. Chapman, Art Andersen, Brent H. Breithaupt, and Neffra A. Matthews
14. Claws, Scales, Beaks, and Feathers: Molecular Traces in the Fossil Record
Mary Higby Schweitzer and Mark Marshall
15. Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits
Kenneth Carpenter
16. Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals
Douglas Henderson

Part Three: The Clades of Dinosaurs
17. Evolution of the Archosaurs
J. Michael Parrish
18. Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs
Michael J. Benton
19. Theropods
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
20. Birds
Darren Naish
21. Basal Sauropodomorpha: The "Prosauropods"
Adam Yates
22. Sauropoda
Jeffrey A. Wilson and Kristina Curry Rogers
23. Stegosaurs
Peter M. Galton
24. Ankylosaurs
Kenneth Carpenter
25. Marginocephalia
Peter Makovicky
26. Ornithopods
Richard J. Butler and Paul M. Barrett

Part Four: Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs
27. Land Plants as a Source of Food and Environment in the Age of Dinosaurs
Bruce H. Tiffney
28. What Did Dinosaurs Eat: Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets
Karen Chin
29. Reproductive Biology of Dinosaurs
Terry D. Jones and Nicholas R. Geist
30. Dinosaur Eggs
Darla K. Zelenitsky, John R. Horner, and François Therrien
31. How Dinosaurs Grew
R. E. H. Reid
32. Engineering a Dinosaur
Donald Henderson
33. Disease in Dinosaurs
Elizabeth Rega
34. The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints
James O. Farlow, Ralph E. Chapman, Brent Breithaupt, and Neffra Matthews
35. The Role of Heterochrony in Dinosaur Evolution
Kenneth J. McNamara and John A. Long
36. Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs and Early Birds
John A. Ruben, Terry D. Jones, Nicholas R. Geist, Willem J. Hillenius, Amy E. Harwell, and Devon E. Quick
37. Evidence for Avian-Mammalian Aerobic Capacity and Thermoregulation in Mesozoic Dinosaurs
Gregory S. Paul
38. "Intermediate" Dinosaurs: The Case Updated
R. E. H. Reid

Part Five: Dinosaur Evolution in the Mesozoic
39. Principles of Biogeography
Ralph E. Molnar
40. Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates
Nicholas C. Fraser
41. Early Mesozoic Continental Tetrapods and Faunal Changes
Hans-Dieter Sues
42. Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic
Matthew T. Carrano
43. Dinosaur Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives
J. David Archibald
44. Life after Death: Dinosaur Fossils in Human Hands
Daniel J. Chure
45. Dinosaurs and Evolutionary Theory
Kevin Padian and Elizabeth K. Burton
Appendix: Dinosaur-Related WWW Sites
Glossary
Index

M. K. Brett-Surman is Museum Specialist at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr., is Senior Lecturer and Director, Earth, Life and Time Program, Department of Geology, University of Maryland.

James O. Farlow is Professor of Geology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Ft. Wayne.