Further Reading

There are numerous books related to dinosaurs, and the majority cover reasons for the dinosaur extinction in varying detail.

General Interest

• Bakker,R. 1987. The dinosaur hHeresies: a revolutionary view of dinosaurs. Longman Scientific and Technical; Penguin.

• Currie,P.J. and Padian,K. 1997. The encyclopedia of dinosaurs. San Diego, London, Academic Press.

• Hallam, A. and Wignall, P. 1997. Mass extinctions and their aftermath. Oxford University Press.

• Van Andel,T.H. 1995. New views on an old planet - A history of global change. Cambridge University Press.

These are generally less available texts and references which do provide more detailed information.

• Albritton,C.C. 1989. Catastrophic episodes in earth history. Chapman and Hall, London, New York.

• Alvarez,W. and Asaro,F. 1990. An extraterrestrial impact. Scientific American, 263(4), 78-84.

• Benton,M.J. 1990. The history of the study of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Evolutionary Biology, 24, 371-400.

• Briggs, D.E.G. and Crowther, P.R. 1990. Palaeobiology. Blackwell Science, Oxford.

• Fastovsky, D.E. and Weishampel, D.B. 1996. The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press.

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