Originally posted by Jah Womble
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Bloody hell. Yes!
This is the one. And I mean, just look at that cover illustration – these dinosaurs were made to look truly monstrous. As you say, they were so vividly captured, with all the heft and shadows and tangible sense of a vanished age of real darkness and tooth-and-claw danger, it was simply riveting to a small boy such as me.
That's a Ceratosaurus ("horned lizard"), which back in 1965 when this was published was one of the 'stock' theropods every child would've learned about, though it's greatly fallen from prominence since I was a kid – certainly you'd never find it on the cover of a dino book again. To me though this picture alone put it right up there in the pantheon.
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