Dinosaurs Ever Evolving

Allen A. Debus is a dinosaur sculptor and author of multiple books. He writes regularly for Prehistoric Times, G-Fan, Mad Scientist and Scary Monsters, and was a contributing editor of Fossil News: Journal of Avocational Paleontology. He lives in Hanover Park, Illinois, USA.

Table of Contents


Foreword by J.D. Lees

Introduction: ­Pop-Cultural Evolution of the Prehistoric ­Dino-Monster:

Meaning and Metaphor

Part I. Perpetuating the Life Through Geological Time Paradigm

One. Sir Humphry Davy’s Volcanic Considerations of Life Through

Geological Time

Two. Popularizing the ­Life-Through-Time “Paleo-Novel”

Three. Henry Robert Knipe: A Forgotten ­Paleo-Popularizer

Four. Dinosaur Extinctions I: When a “dinosaur book” Isn’t: Henry Fairfield Osborn’s Origin and Evolution of Life (1917)

Five. Filmic Illustrations of Life Through Geological Time

Six. Lovecraft’s Paleontological Time Travels

Part II. Doomsday Dinosaurs

Seven. Dinosaur Extinctions II: Volcanoes Presage Environmental Apocalypse

Eight. Sizing up Radiation’s Unnatural Cold War Dangers

Nine. Nuclear Dragon: Godzilla and the Cold War—1954

Ten. Godzilla’s Dinosaurian Origins

Eleven. Oxygen Destroyers: When Oceans Die

Twelve. “After and Before”: Gorgo’s Alternate Adventures

Thirteen. Prehistoric Life Spawns an Environmental Movement

Fourteen. Beyond the Smog Monster: Godzilla in the Anthropocene

Part III. Man and Dinosaur as One

Fifteen. Decade of the Dinosaur

Sixteen. Dinosaur Extinctions III: Warning from Space! Science Fiction Becomes Scientific

Seventeen. Shadow of Our Past: Evolution of the Beast

Eighteen. That First Intelligence

Nineteen. When Dinosauroids Speak!

Epilogue

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index