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Dinosaurs
Growing Up in the Cretaceous: Scipionyx
The fourth volume in a series of six comic-book adventures that bring the dinosaurs back to life.
Growing Up in the Cretaceous , the fourth title in Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, begins with the hatching of the eggs in a family of Scipionyx, small carnivores living in the early Cretaceous period, 113 million years ago, in what is now Italy. The story follows one of the hatchlings as, with the help of his parents, he learns to survive amidst larger dinosaurs, like the duck-billed hadrosaurs and the fish-eating Baryonyx. The essays following the comic investigate the behavior of dinosaurs.
In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamed up to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form. Each volume in the series tells the action-packed yet scientifically accurate story of a different dinosaur living in its particular time and place. At the back of each volume, meanwhile, are several short essays, abundantly illustrated with original drawings and photographs of fossils, that explain more about the creatures and settings encountered in the comic.
Growing Up in the Cretaceous , the fourth title in Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, begins with the hatching of the eggs in a family of Scipionyx, small carnivores living in the early Cretaceous period, 113 million years ago, in what is now Italy. The story follows one of the hatchlings as, with the help of his parents, he learns to survive amidst larger dinosaurs, like the duck-billed hadrosaurs and the fish-eating Baryonyx. The essays following the comic investigate the behavior of dinosaurs.
In Abbeville's Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamed up to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form. Each volume in the series tells the action-packed yet scientifically accurate story of a different dinosaur living in its particular time and place. At the back of each volume, meanwhile, are several short essays, abundantly illustrated with original drawings and photographs of fossils, that explain more about the creatures and settings encountered in the comic.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Marco Signore
16 books2 followersPalaeontologist and marine biologist, with a long experience in science popularisation, he is also fond of archaeology and history, and indulges in music (playing piano and recording albums with his bands), boardgames, roleplaying games, fantasy and sci-fi novels, miniature painting, lightsaber dueling, and historical reenactment. Oh, of course he loves Star Wars and mythology.
He works at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, the marine biology institute in Napoli, Italy.
He works at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, the marine biology institute in Napoli, Italy.
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August 23, 2010
This series has been translated from it's Italian origins, and to be honest, it doesn't translate well. The artwork is nice and will catch kid's attention, but the wording is so upper level that only high teen to adults will be able to read the story as it was meant to be followed. It's like they tried to combine a graphic novel with a textbook and this is what happened. Overall, not impressed and there are much better dinosaur graphic novels out there to get.
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