Too Big to Walk
The New Science of Dinosaurs
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Narrated by:
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Chris Courtenay
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Written by:
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Brian J. Ford
About this listen
Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.
In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs’ lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which challenge our most deeply held beliefs - such as the revelation that an asteroid impact did not end the dinosaurs’ existence.
Professor Ford’s illuminating examination changes everything. As he unravels the history of the world, we discover that evolution was not Charles Darwin’s idea; there were many philosophers who published the theory before him. The concept of continental drift and plate tectonics did not begin with Alfred Wegener a century ago but dates back to learned pioneers hundreds of years before his time. Ever since scientists first began to study dinosaurs, they have travelled with each other down the wrong path, and Ford now shows how this entire branch of science has to be rewritten.
A new dinosaur species is announced every 10 days, and more and more information is currently being discovered about how they may have lived: locomotion, hunting, nesting behaviour, distribution, extinction. Ford brings together these amazing discoveries in this controversial new book which undoubtedly will ruffle a few feathers, or scales if you are an old-school dinosaur lover.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Alicia Roy
- 2018-10-04
Bitter
I agree with William Lauffer's review and would like to add to his review. The first half of this book was interesting because the author had a little emotional attachment with the history of the field of paleontology. However, once he goes into his "theory" (aka hypothesis) about how dinosaurs must have been aquatic, Brian J. Ford becomes extremely bitter with not only paleontology but modern science in general. He complains over and over about peer-reviewed articles and how the outside thinkers cannot get published because they are too outside the box. He even compares himself to Galileo at one point. Yes, he tries to play it off as he is not worthy of the comparison someone else made, but why would he put it in his book if he didn't want to brag a little bit?
He also complains quite a lot about Spinosaurus and it's cousins and how they must have been aquatic since they are so much like crocodiles. Which by the time this book was published the paleontological community is more or less in agreeance (as much as scientist can agree) that Spinosaurus was semi-aquatic. As well as Halszkaraptor seems to be also semi-aquatic.
However, my biggest complaint is that the author doesn't take in account of when the dinosaurs first evolved in the Triassic. He talks over and over again about the climate of the Cretaceous and talks about how dinosaurs must have evolved for that environment. However, dinosaurs evolved in the Triassic during Pangaea when the Earth was much drier. If he was trying to argue that all dinosaurs must have been aquatic he needed to take the Triassic and the first dinosaurs more in account.
While Chris Courtenay was enjoyable, the bitterness of Brian J. Ford made the whole experience a drag. By the end, it felt like a chore to listen to.
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