Summary
Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth, and the T-rex met their demise. The ever-entertaining J. Patrick Lewis and the inimitable Jane Yolen offer a collection organized by era, with posthumous poems paired with short secondary te... Full description
- Trilobites the dust
- Plesiosaur sticks his neck out
- Pterrible pterosaur pterminated
- Diplodocus has a lump in her throat
- Allosaurus, rest in pieces
- Iguanodon, alas long gone
- Minmi moans in the Outback
- SuperCroc plot
- Why no Spinosaurus?
- Too much velocity, Velociraptor
- Troodon, a snaggletoothed youth
- Tricera blew her top
- Fossil fuel : Kol
- Fooling with T. rex
- Terror bird kicks the bucket
- Basilosaurus : whale of a beast or beastly whale?
- Scat, old saber-toothed cat
- Crying (dire) wolf
- Holy moly, woolly mammoth
- Dinosaur doomstones
- A little about layers.