For generations raised on dinosaur toys, "Jurassic Park" films and characters like Barney, it's hard to imagine a world where dinos and their fossils didn't exist — or, more accurately, weren't ...
In “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party,” the science writer Edward Dolnick takes on the 19th-century discovery of dinosaur fossils: “What was it like to try to grapple with an idea that hadn’t occurred to ...
DINOSAURS AT THE DINNER PARTY: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World. By Edward Dolnick. Scribner. 352 pages. $30. For generations ...