Palaeontology category: 374 books
by Walter Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth...
Almost Human
The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries...
Mollusk shells as bio-geo-archives
Evaluating environmental changes during the Quaternary
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
In view of the wide range of disciplines involved in Quaternary research, this book offers a one-stop resource for the Quaternary research community, since it reviews the latest techniques and provides an approach to how mollusk shell remains are used in the reconstruction of marine environments in...
New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs
The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the most successful of all dinosaurs. This volume presents a broad range of cutting-edge research on the functional biology, behavior, systematics, paleoecology, and paleogeography of the horned dinosaurs, and includes descriptions of newly identified species.
Bones, Clones, and Biomes
The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet’s mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical...
Global Events and Event Stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic
Results of the International Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the IGCP-Project 216 “Global Biological Events in Earth History”
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The existence of rapid and even catastrophic turnovers within the Phanerozoic ecosystems has been discussed controversially for more than 170 years. Since 1980 this discussion has become even more intensive after the hypothesis of Alvarez, explaining the end-Cretaceous mass extinction as the result...
My Beloved Brontosaurus
On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A Hudson Booksellers Staff Pick for the Best Books of 2013
One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring Science Books
A Bookshop Santa Cruz Staff Pick
Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods....
Across the Bridge
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms. But as longtime Nature editor Henry Gee argues...
Articulating Dinosaurs
A Political Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In this remarkable interdisciplinary study, anthropologist Brian Noble traces how dinosaurs and their natural worlds are articulated into being by the action of specimens and humans together. Following the complex exchanges of palaeontologists, museums specialists, film- and media-makers, science...
Birds of Stone
Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the world began...
The Fossil Chronicles
How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the...
by Bruce S. Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Biogeography relates the evolution of the Earth's biota to major episodes in the Earth's history such as climatic changes and plate tectonic events. Furthermore, biogeographic patterns have played a prominent role in the development of the theory of evolution. Thus biogeography has the potential to...
Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs
Understanding the Life of Giants
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials...
Top 10 Dinosaurs of 2014
The 10 Biggest Dinosaur Discoveries of 2014: An I Know Dino Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
“The water is murky. Sand and grit stir it up, making it difficult for the giant predator with the 6-foot-tall sail on his back to see. He lowers his mouth into the water, his high nostrils allowing him to breathe easily while the pits on his snout feel for pressure and sense for fish swimming nearby.
Nothing...