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overview
The course examines "non-avian dinosaurs" as objects of valid
scientific inquiry and strips them of their media hyperbole.
Among the topics examined in detail are: their systematics, ecology
(including a survey of other Mesozoic vertebrates groups, important
invertebrates, and plant life), physiology, their relationships
to modern birds, the facts behind their extinctions, and how
these animals are reconstructed and restored as living animals
(including what is actually known about their reproduction and
care of their offspring). No prerequisites is required and all
relevant geological and biological background material will be
provided as part of the course.
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