Palaeontology category: 374 books
Horns and Beaks
Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods...
Made in Africa
Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Made in Africa: Hominin Explorations and the Australian Skeletal Evidence describes and documents the largest collection of modern human remains in the world from its time period. These Australian fossils, which represent modern humans at the end of their great 20,000 km journey from Africa, may be...
Génome néandertalien
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte du génome néandertalien avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Paléoanthropologues et biologistes de l'évolution humaine ont assisté en 2010 au déchiffrage d'une partie du génome néandertalien. Cette lignée humaine, qui a peuplé l'Asie de l'Ouest et l'Europe...
The Dinosaur Artist
Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,**Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's reckless attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science,...
by Andrea Maraldi, Paolo Ferrante
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 12, 2014
“Dinosauri”. Una parola inventata ormai più di un secolo e mezzo fa per definire una delle più spettacolari e variegate forme di vita che abbiano mai vissuto sul nostro pianeta, spesso solo ed erroneamente associata a colossi carnivori e ad erbivori corazzati. Oggi invece il duro lavoro dei...
Noah's Ravens
Interpreting the Makers of Tridactyl Dinosaur Footprints
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
This volume describes and explores the emerging discipline of conservation paleobiology, and addresses challenges faced by established and young Conservation Paleobiologist's alike. In addition, this volume includes applied research highlighting how conservation paleobiology can be used to understand...
by Chen, Xu
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Darriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China analyzes the significance of these exquisite, mostly pyritic, graptolites of the middle to late Ordovician period from North China and Tarim, China—locations that have developed the world’s most complete successions of strata...
Methods in Paleoecology
Reconstructing Cenozoic Terrestrial Environments and Ecological Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2018
This volume focuses on the reconstruction of past ecosystems and provides a comprehensive review of current techniques and their application in exemplar studies. The 18 chapters address a wide variety of topics that span vertebrate paleobiology and paleoecology (body mass, postcranial functional morphology,...
Smilodon
The Iconic Sabertooth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Few animals spark the imagination as much as the sabertooth cat Smilodon. With their incredibly long canines, which hung like fangs past their jaws, these ferocious predators were first encountered by humans when our species entered the Americas. We can only imagine what ice age humans felt when they...
The People of Palomas
Neandertals from the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, Southeastern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The Neandertal site of the Sima de las Palomas del Cabezo Gordo, located in Murcia in southeastern Spain, is unique in several respects. One of its most important contribution to the field of Anthropology, however, may be that it has yielded of the remains of at least 17 Neandertals, adding appreciable...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This edited book discusses various challenges in teaching structural geology and tectonics and how they have been overcome by eminent instructors, who employed effective and innovative means to do so. All of the chapters were written by prominent and active academics and geoscientists fully engaged...
Limits of Life
Proceedings of the Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A., October 18th to 20th, 1978
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the fourth in the series of the Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia on Chemical Evolution. These Colloquia, and the resulting Proceedings, are presented in the interest of fostering the impact of the interdisciplinary nature of chemical evolu tion on contemporary scientific...
by Thomas N Taylor, Michael Krings, Edith L. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
Fungi are ubiquitous in the world and responsible for driving the evolution and governing the sustainability of ecosystems now and in the past. Fossil Fungi is the first encyclopedic book devoted exclusively to fossil fungi and their activities through geologic time. The book begins with the historical...