Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World by Louis Jacobs

Format: Softcover, 344 pages

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, July, 2000

ISBN: 080186481X

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With a new introduction by the author

Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaurs

Louis Jacobs reopened paleontologists' eyes to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons in Malawi and three in Cameroon, Jacobs found the remains of two meat-eating theropods, two herbivorous sauropods, an odd crocodile about the size of a Chihuahua, and rare early mammals. Now in paperback, Quest for the African Dinosaurs includes Jacobs' new introduction, which discusses recent developments in paleontological research in Africa.