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Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep
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Writer(s)
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Publisher
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BBC Books (UK)
Dorling Kindersley (USA) |
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Release Date
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16 October 2003 (UK)
2 February 2004 (USA) |
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Format
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Hardback Book, 168 Pages
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Price
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£17.99
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ISBN
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USA cover.
Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep is the companion book to the Sea Monsters TV series. This exciting book depicts Nigel's adventures in the 7 deadliest seas of all times, from the mighty pliosaur Liopleurodon to the sea scorpion Megalograptus. In the USA it was titled Chased By Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Predators of the Deep.
Contents[]
Foreword[]
Introduction[]
- The biological big bang
- The first monsters
- The life and times of planet Earth
- Age of fishes
- Return to the water
- Hell's aquarium
- End of an era
- Murderous mammals
The Ordovician: 450 MYA[]
- No place for humans
- The Ordovician at a glance
- Hell on Earth
- Nasty nippers
- Trilobites
- Sex on the beach
- Orthocones - a deep-water menace
- Dos and don'ts of Ordovician diving
- Anatomy of a Shell
- Blind terror
The Devonian: 360 MYA[]
- Age of fishes
- The Devonian at a glance
- Devonian dangers
- Dos and don'ts of Devonian diving
- Fish out of water
- Living fossils
- First sharks
- The original 'Jaws'
- Placoderms
The Triassic: 230 MYA[]
- Out of the blue
- The Triassic at a glance
- Dragons at sea
- The genesis of the dinosaurs
- Sticking its neck out
- Giant ichthyosaurs
- Running the gauntlet
- Marine reptiles today
The Jurassic: 155 MYA[]
- Deadly paradise
- The Jurassic at a glance
- Ammonites
- Liopleurodon - the biggest predator ever?
- Dos and don'ts of Jurassic diving
- Too close for comfort
- Using a smell suit
- Survival
- Plesiosaurs
The Cretaceous: 75 MYA[]
- Don't go in the water!
- The Cretaceous at a glance
- Hens' teeth
- Shallow death
- The snake connection
- Where angels fear to swim
- Dos and don'ts of Cretaceous diving
- The big blunder
- The main monster
The Eocene: 36 MYA[]
- The leviathan
- The Eocene at a glance
- The whale that lost its scales
- Hunger pangs
- Into the ocean
- In for the kill
- Sound in an underwater world
- How scary was Basilosaurus?
The Pliocene: 4 MYA[]
- Giant sharks
- The Pliocene at a glance
- Starting small
- Fossilized teeth
- What's in a name?
- Swimming with sharks
- The whale killer
- Looking death in the face
- Dos and don'ts of diving with Megalodon
- The extinction of Megalodon
Acknowledgements[]
Picture credits[]
Index[]
Character boxes[]
- Giant trilobite (Isotelus)
- Astraspis
- Sea scorpions (Megalograptus)
- Giant orthocone (Cameroceras)
- Dunkleosteus
- Graptolites
- Bothriolepis
- Stethacanthus
- Nothosaur
- Tanystropheus
- Cymbospondylus
- Coelurosaur
- Ophthalmosaurus
- Metriorhynchus
- Leedsichthys
- Liopleurodon
- Hybodus
- Tyrannosaurus
- Hesperornis
- Halisaurus
- Elasmosaurus
- Archelon
- Xiphactinus
- Giant mosasaurs (Tylosaurus and Haliosaurus)
- Pteranodon
- Basilosaurus
- Arsinoitherium
- Dorudon
- Megalodon
- Odobenocetops