Winner of the Colbert Award for the best adult book about dinosaurs Louis Jacobs reopened paleontologists' eyes to the African continent when he uncovered a major fossil site in the hills of Malawi in the 1980s. During five digging seasons in Malawi and three in Cameroon, Jacobs found the remains of two meat-eating theropods, two herbivorous sauropods, an odd crocodile about the size of a Chihuahua, and rare early mammals. Now in paperback, Quest for the African Dinosaurs includes Jacobs' new introduction, which discusses recent developments in paleontological research in Africa.
- ISBN10 080186481X
- ISBN13 9780801864810
- Publish Date 23 October 2000 (first published 19 January 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 August 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 344
- Language English
- URL https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/2221/quest-african-dinosaurs