Reddit reviews The Complete Dinosaur (Life of the Past)

I don't know as much about online resources, but I've recently run into a book called The Complete Dinosaur. Far from being just superficial dinosaur trivia, it has a lot of scientific papers about the morphology, ecology, evolution, ontogeny, and history of dinosaurs.

My favorite book is definitely Dr. Holtz's Dinosaur Encyclopedia; it's geared towards a high school level, but I know professional paleontologists who use it, it's just an awesome book.

The next step up is The Complete Dinosaur. It's a solid book, technical, but not as highly praised as ...

The Dinosauria

The Dinosauria is the gold standard, but it's incredibly dense. My best suggestion though is to read primary literature about subjects/clades that interest you. Google scholar is pretty useful for this, although paywalls will be an issue off-campus

One of my favorites has been The Complete Dinosaur. It has everything from introduction to the history of dinosaur discovery, to morphology, ecology, behavior, evolution, etc. I found it to be fairly approachable, but still scientific enough to serve as a good educational resource.

That last book, the encyclopedia is a bit outdated now. There's a new version out.

This is the second edition.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Dinosaur-Second-Life-Past/dp/0253357012/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536367661&sr=1-1&keywords=the+complete+dinosaur

Here's the most up to date version, 2012. It'll be missing one or two big discoveries from the last couple of years (possibly Yutyrannus the feathered tyrannosaur and definitely the new Spinosaurus stuff) but it'll still be very good.

There will be older versions available cheaper elsewhere as well of course.

Hey, it doesn't look like anyone got back to you about the dinosaurs (or I'm just too lazy to check all the sub-threads)

Here are two textbooks that are sometimes used:

• The Complete Dinosaur, 2nd edition
  
  
• Dinosaur Paleobiology