WALKING ON EGGS: THE ASTONISHING DISCOVERY OF THOUSANDS OF DINOSAUR EGGS IN THE BADLANDS OF PATAGONIA
Book ID/图书代码： 04160007B13785
English Summary/英文概要： Doctors Chiappe and Dingus led the research team which, on a field trip to the Patagonian desert in South America in 1997, came across an extraordinary palaeontological coup: the discovery of a kind of dinosaur "maternity ward", a field of eggs 80 million years old, some of which were still unhatched. Then, on a later expedition, they found a nearly complete skeleton of a completely new species of dinosaur a 20-foot predator they named Aucasaurus, after Auca Maheuvo, the name they had given the site. "Walking on Eggs" is not just the account of how these miraculous finds were made. Interweaving chapters featuring field adventures and dinosaur-collecting with others dealing with the history, processes and scientific models involved in solving the mysteries surrounding this spectacular site and its ancient inhabitants, the book is also about the nature of scientific discovery and how such finds contribute to knowledge.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1997年，起亚皮博士与丁格斯博士带着一只研究团队踏上了一场前往美国南部巴塔哥尼亚莎莫之地的探索之旅。在这一趟旅程中，他们无意间有了一项重大而惊人的发现：在某种恐龙的葬身之地上，有着无数拥有长达8000万年历史的恐龙蛋群，其中的许多恐龙蛋甚至还未被孵化过。
随后，在另一次探险中，他们发现了一个近乎完整的恐龙骨架，这副骨架来自一种全新的恐龙，他们将这个长达20英尺的捕猎者命名为阿卡苏若斯，这一命名来源于他们对这片新发现区域的命名---阿卡•马赫沃。《恐龙蛋之旅》不仅仅是对这一奇迹过程的描述与重现。
全书的各章节交织在一起，围绕着这一冒险经历和恐龙搜集之旅缓缓展开，其间还将就这一神秘地点以及其上古老的居民们的历史、进化过程，以及科学模型等进行深入探究分析，此外，本书还将为你展现究竟何为科学发现的本质，并且这样的发现又是怎样为知识体系的丰富与完善做出了自己的贡献。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：From BooklistSimply and directly, as they recount their recent expeditions to Patagonia in Argentina, Chiappe and Dingus show how paleontologists and geologists reconstruct an image of ancient life and its environment. In Patagonia they discovered numerous clutches of dinosaur eggs, some containing embryos of sauropods. Finding fossils only begins their work; without interpretation, fossils are just mute rocks. What makes them speak are their geological context--specifically, the ages and types of rock strata in which they are found--and the anatomy preserved in their stone. Instead of drawing any conclusions about the eggs, Chiappe and Dingus stick to explaining how conclusions are reached. They trace the methods of dating that yielded a late Cretaceous date, some 80 million years ago, for the eggs, and discuss the behavioral inferences they drew from the petrified skin, armor, and nests they found. Although factual and methodical, Chiappe and Dingus’ book still gives full rein, in text and illustration, to the imagination, thereby meeting the test for appealing dinosaur books. Gilbert Taylor
About the Author/作者介绍： 刘易斯•起亚皮与洛威尔•丁格斯是位于加利福尼亚州，洛杉矶市的自然历史博物馆中的副馆长和副研究员，主要负责古代脊椎生物的研究。
Luis M. Chiappe, a 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, is associate curator and chairman of the department of vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dr. Chiappe has conducted extensive field work in the Americas as well as in Asia. His many articles have appeared in Nature, Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Natural History. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
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