Tha Zin The Dinosaur Trail Book Review

Book Name : The Dinosaur Trail

Author: Sue Gibbison

Reviewed by : Tha Zin

Age: 11

Auckland, New Zealand

This week’s book is called The Dinosaur Trail this article is a nonfiction article. It’s about a Sedimentologist named Dr Greg Browne and he had been trying to find more things about the environment when he goes to Whanganui Inlet to find out more about sand, mud, and clay when he finds strange looking footprints and he has an investigation to find out which animal created the footprint.

Dr Greg Browne has tried most of the animal but none them match so the last one was dinosaurs and everything matched the age of the rocks was the right time frame from when dinosaurs still existed so it must’ve been them, and also the place was a coastal mudflat a place where Dinosaurs might have lived. Dr Greg Browne researched about what he had found and look at all of the photos of dinosaur prints and noticed that the ones he found belonged to the sauropods.

Before Dr Greg had made his discovery public he got some scientists to check his theory things like this are called a peer review, then he took a team of  geologists and paleontologists to the site to take a look for themselves everyone had agreed and everything fitted. Dr Greg published a report in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, it was called “First New Zealand Record of probable dinosaur footprints” in his report he claimed that they were sauropod prints.

I recommend this text to year fives up to year sevens and maybe even year eights who are interested in learning more about dinosaurs. Also if they would like to become a geologists then they can, and this book taught me that a job called geologists actually exists I never really knew up until now so this book can teach people about being a geologist and studying things like sand, mud, clay and many more.