In Abbeville"s Dinosaurs series, a talented artist and a noted paleontologist have teamedup to re-create the vanished world of the dinosaurs in comic-book form. Each volume inthe series tells the action-packed yet scientifically accurate story of a different dinosaurliving in its particular time and place. At the back of each volume, meanwhile, are severalshort essays, abundantly illustrated with original drawings and photographs of fossils, thatexplain more about the creatures and settings encountered in the comic. Growing Up in the Cretaceous, the fourth title, begins with the hatching of the eggsin a family of Scipionyx, small carnivores living in the early Cretaceous period, 113 millionyears ago, in what is now Italy. The story follows one of the hatchlings as, with thehelp of his parents, he learns to survive amidst larger dinosaurs, like the duck-billedhadrosaurs and the fish-eating Baryonyx. The essays following the comic investigate thebehavior of dinosaurs.