Osteology of Deinonychus antirrhopus, an Unusual Therapod from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Bulletin 30. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
New Haven, Connecticut: n.p., July 1969. First edition, very rare, of arguably the single most important work on dinosaurs, by “the most influential palaeontologist of the second half of the 20th century” (Dodson & Gingerich). Prior to Ostrom’s work, dinosaurs were largely depicted as slow-witted, slow-moving, cold-blooded reptiles. This revolutionary..... More
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