An illustrated guide to our amazing new understanding of dinosaurs, featuring the latest science and the most accurate and visually stunning paleoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were – or at least, they didn't look like you thought they looked. Leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of dinosaurs, showing how rapid advancements in technology and astonishing new fossil discoveries have forever changed the way we see dinosaurs. Stunning new illustrations by paleoartist Bob Nicholls depict the latest and most exciting scientific discoveries in vibrant colors. No book before this has used new data so rigorously to ultimately tell us how dinosaurs really looked. Each chapter focuses on a specific species, including a specially commissioned illustration that brings to life the latest scientific developments, accompanied by text exploring how paleontologists have become able to identify new details, such as patterns in skin and colors of feathers of animals that lived millions of years ago. This is a visual companion guide that will amaze you and challenge everything you thought you knew about how dinosaurs looked and how they lived.