Given that Oxford University Press‘ Very Short Introductions series is now well past five hundred volumes in total (and still expanding), the fact that Dr. David Norman‘s original edition of Dinosaurs; A Very Short Introduction, displays on its spine the series number “128” should tell you something. Originally published in 2005, it provided an excellent general overview to the state of palaeological knowledge about these creature at that time. Science, however, marches on.
Therefore, given the number of significant discoveries made about dinosaurs over the past decade, an update to Dr. Norman’s book was indeed needed – and in December of 2017, his Dinosaurs; A Very Short Introduction, Second Edition replaced his original edition in the series.
Still bearing the original series number “128,” this new second edition brings a number of points up to date, and incorporates some of the most significant recent discoveries in the field – including the revision of the classification of them which has dramatically altered previous assumptions about their relationships to one another as well as to evolutionary history as a whole.
