Illustrations and text look at how dinosaur remains have been excavated and studied, what we know about how dinosaurs lived, about related prehistoric creatures, and how we know what we know.

Includes index.

How we know about dinosaurs -- Prehistoric animals -- Dinosaur classification -- What happened when -- When dinosaurs lived -- Precambrian through Permian -- The Triassic period (245 to 208 mya) -- Triassic through cretaceous -- The Jurassic period (208 to 145 mya) -- Jurassic through Cretaceous -- The Cretaceous period (145 to 65 mya) -- The Cenozoic era (65 mya to today) -- How we know what we know.