Palaeontology category: 374 books
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
A New History of a Lost World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
"THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY," hails Scientific American: A thrilling new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists.
"A masterpiece of science writing." —Washington Post
A New York Times Bestseller • Goodreads Choice Awards Winner...
by Deborah Cadbury
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs. In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two...
The Accidental Species
Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed...
The Monkey in the Mirror
Essays on the Science of What Makes Us Human
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Nothing fascinates us more than explorations of human origins, and nobody tells the story better than Ian Tattersall.
What makes us so different? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what exactly are we? These questions are what make human evolution a subject of general fascination....
Unbound
How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools...
Jurassic Mary
Mary Anning and the Primeval Monsters
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2006
The life of one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology whose discoveries were often credited in her time to others, due to her gender and classMary Anning (1799-1847) was one of the pioneers of the emerging science of geology, and the first woman palaeontologist to make important discoveries....
by Leslie Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 2007, a massive, concentrated deposit of dinosaur fossils, some of theoldest ever found, were discovered in the mountain ridges of northernBritish Columbia, near an old coal mining town. The site contained thelargest number of tyrannosaur teeth ever found with another species, anunfortunate lambeousaur...
How to Build a Dinosaur
The New Science of Reverse Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur
Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.
Based...
Dinosaurs Without Bones
Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“[Bubbling] over with the joy of scientific discovery. . . . Great fun for anyone looking to revive their childhood dinosaur obsessions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic...
by Giancarlo Varnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The Mesozoic or Secondary Era, extends for a period ranging from 251 to 65 million years ago. Also called as the Age of Reptiles, derives its name from the greek mesos, "middle", because it was placed in between the ancient (Paleozoic) and recent (Cenozoic) where he witnessed a veritable explosion in the number of living species and formed the majority of sedimentary rocks.
by Michael Novacek
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century.
Closed to the West since the 1920's, the remote sands of Mongolia's...
Dinosaur Memories
Dino-Trekking for Beasts of Thunder, Fantastic Saurians, 'Paleo-People,' 'Dinosaurabilia,' and Other 'Prehistoria'
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2002
Dinosaur memories are hard to forget! Most who revel in the current renaissance in dinosaur science, art, fiction and movies, or who enjoy the other appealing prehistoric animals so well popularized by the media have fond recollections of what it was like growing up dinosaur. Together with wife Diane...
by Giancarlo Varnier
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
The Neozoic or Quaternary Era owes its name to the emergence and spread of man and comes from the greek "new life" should be from 1.8 million years ago until today.In this book we will explore the trails along the path leading to Homo sapiens, we will see what have been, until now, the most important scientific discoveries about the origin of our species with related issues, and much more.
Rhinoceros Giants
The Paleobiology of Indricotheres
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Written for everyone fascinated by the huge beasts that once roamed the earth, this book introduces the giant hornless rhinoceros, Indricotherium. These massive animals inhabited Asia and Eurasia for more than 14 million years, about 37 to 23 million years ago. They had skulls 6 feet long, stood 22...