Books like The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures

This is my current obsession...The illustrations are splendid.As the title indicates, it's not just dinosaurs...the book comes up into relatively recent times and recently extinct creatures (read a few hundred to a few thousand years). It's interesting to learn that we may just be in an extended interglacial and that another Ice Age may very well be in our future. I must have an updated edition, because some of the references and corrections are amazingly fresh. Lipleurodon, Utahraptor, Eryops...let's just be glad we're not "Walking with Dinosaurs" like these, as the BBC series had it. I like it when the authors chide the BBC docu for its extravagant dramatizations of unsupported habits, like Lipleurodon leaping up onto the land to devour terrestrial dinosaurs. LAND SHARK! Oh, well surprise...crocodilians once existed in land species and wandered through deserts of Australia devouring. You learn interesting things like the fact that New Zealand was never attached to any part of Pangaea (it's a volcanic mass risen from the ocean floor). And that Spielberg's menacing velociraptors were clearly modeled on Deinonychus but they should have been shown as feathered (quill knobs on recently discovered specimens confirm what was already suspected.) And yes, many dinosaurs were warm-blooded to some degree, and some cared for their young. It's fun to see how lucky amateur fossil hunters get to give these creatures some goofy names too. Utahraptor spielburgi? I was disappointed my favorite dinosaur Dracorex Hogwartsia was not included but that's a very recent discovery. Dracorex had the most amazingly dragon-like skull...very baroque with many protuberances...a beautifully medieval-looking creature...Die young and leave a beautiful corpse. Paleontology thanks these dinos and other beasties for doing just that! Here's the "dragon king"...http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05...