| I: The Discovery of Dinosaurs |
| 1. | The Earliest Discoveries | William A. S. Sarjeant |
| 2. | European Dinosaur Hunters | Hans-Dieter Sues |
| 3. | North American Dinosaur Hunters | Edwin H. Colbert |
| 4. | Asian Dinosaur Hunters | John R. Lavas |
| 5. | Dinosaur Hunters of the Southern Continents | Thomas R.Holtz, Jr. |
| II: The Study of Dinosaurs |
| 6. | Hunting for Dinosaurs Bones | David D. Gillette |
| 7. | The Osteology of the Dinosaurs | Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman |
| 8. | The Taxonomy and Systematics of the Dinosaurs | Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. and M. K. Brett-Surman |
| 9. | Dinosaurs and Geologic Time | James O. Farlow |
| 10. | Technology and the Study of Dinosaurs | Ralph E. Chapman |
| 11. | Molecular Paleontolgy: Rationale and Techniques for the Study of Ancient Biomolecules | Mary Higby Schweitzer |
| 12. | Dinosaurs as Museum Exhibits | Kenneth Carpenter |
| 13. | Restoring Dinosaurs as Living Animals | Douglas Henderson |
| III: The Groups of Dinosaurs |
| 14. | Politics and Paleontology: Richard Owen and the Invention of Dinosaurs | Hugh Torrens |
| 15. | Evolution of the Archosaurs | J. Michael Parrish |
| 16. | Origin and Early Evolution of Dinosaurs | Michael J. Benton |
| 17. | Theropods | Philip J. Currie |
| 18. | Segnosaurs (Therizinosaurs) | Teresa Matyanska |
| 19. | Prosauropods | Jacques VanHeerden |
| 20. | Sauropods | John S. McIntosh, M. K. Brett-Surman, and James O. Farlow |
| 21. | Stegosaurs | Peter M. Galton |
| 22. | Ankylosaurs | Kenneth Carpenter |
| 23. | Marginocephalians | Catherine A. Forster and Paul C. Sereno |
| 24. | Ornithopods | M. K. Brett-Surman |
| IV: Biology of the Dinosaurs |
| 25. | Land Plants as Food and Habitat in the Age of Dinosaurs | Bruce H. Tiffney |
| 26. | What Did Dinosaurs Eat? Coprolites and Other Direct Evidence of Dinosaur Diets | Karen Chin |
| 27. | Dinosaur Combat and Courtship | Scott Sampson |
| 28. | Dinosaur Eggs | Karl E. Hirsch and Darla K. Zelenitsky |
| 29. | How Dinosaurs Grew | R. E. H. Reid |
| 30. | Engineering a Dinosaur | R. McNeill Alexander |
| 31. | Dinosaurian Paleopathology | Bruce M. Rothschild |
| 32. | Dinosaurian Physiology: The Case for "Intermediate" Dinosaurs | R. E. H. Reid |
| 33. | Oxygen Isotopes in Dinosaur Bone | Reese E. Barrick, Michael K. Stoskopf, and William J. Showers |
| 34. | A Blueprint for Giants: Modeling the Physiology of Large Dinosaurs | Frank W. Paladino, James R. Spottle, and Peter Dodson |
| 35. | New Insights into the Metabolic Physiology of Dinosaurs | John Ruben, Andrew Leitch, Willem Hillenius, Nicholas Geist, and Terry Jones |
| 36. | The Scientific Study of Dinosaur Footprints | James O. Farlow and Ralph E. Chapman |
| 37. | The Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Utility of Dinosaur Tracks | Martin G. Lockley |
| V: Dinosaur Evolution in the Changing World of the Mesozoic Era |
| 38. | Biogeography for Dinosaurs | Ralph E. Molnar |
| 39. | Major Groups of Non-Dinosaurian Vertebrates of the Mesozoic Era | Michael Morales |
| 40. | Continental Tetrapods of the Early Mesozoic | Hans-Dieter Sues |
| 41. | Dinosaurian Faunas of the Later Mesozoic | Dale A. Russell and Joel F. Bonaparte |
| 42. | The Extinction of the Dinosaurs: A Dialogue between a Catastrophist and a Gradualist | Dale A. Russell and Peter Dodson |
| VI: Dinosaurs and the Media |
| 43. | Dinosaurs and the Media | Donald F. Glut and M. K. Brett-Surman |