Review: Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs by Phillip Manning

Watch a video of the discovery and analysis of the amazing fossil find

Vertebrate palaeontology is a science built on bones. Well-preserved bones can be richly informative – the massive skull and teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex, for instance, have “deadly” written all over them. Yet bones reveal precious little about the “meat” of dinosaurs, leaving a host of questions unanswered about dinosaur metabolism, internal organs, and even how much weight the bones supported in life. That’s why it’s so exciting when, once in a rare while, a dinosaur is discovered whose fossils preserve more than just bones.…