Preface to the third edition

Dedication

Part I: Remembrance of things past. To catch a dinosaur ; Dinosaur days ; Who's related to whom : and how do we know? ; Who are the dinosaurs? ; Dinosaurs : in the beginning

Part II: Saurischia : meat, might and magnitude. Theropoda I : nature red in tooth and claw ; Theropoda II : meet the theropods ; Theropoda III : the origin and early evolution of birds ; Sauropodomorpha : the big, the bizarre, and the majestic

Part III: Ornithischia : armored, horned, and duck-billed dinosaur. Thyreophorans : the armor-bearers ; Marginocephalia : bumps, bosses, and beaks ; Ornithopoda : magnificent mesozoic masticators

Part IV: Endothermy, endemism, and extinction. Dinosaur thermoregulation : some like it hot ; The flowering of the mesozoic ; A history of paleontology through ideas ; The cretaceous-tertiary extinction : the frill is gone

Glossary.