Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2015. second edition), Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. Living amniotes - including all mammals, birds, crocodilians, snakes, and turtles - comprise an extraordinarily varied array of more than 21,000 species. Found in every major habitat on earth, they possess a truly remarkable range of..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. Large octavo, dustwrapper, text illustrations, colour photographs. Meat-eating theropod dinosaurs have been recognized as potential ancestors of birds since the 19th century, but it was not until the 1960s that work on Deinonychus revealed the startling similarities between dinosaurs and birds. With each new small..... More
Marum: Art Revisited, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, [2014.]. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, illustrations, line drawings. After examining and interpreting recent fossil discoveries in China, paleontologists now believe there is incontrovertible evidence that birds represent the last living dinosaur. In this book, evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia discusses whether this conclusion is..... More
Cassis: Imprimerie & Papeterie Commerciale Ltd, 2005. Octavo, illustrations, softcover. This book allows the reader to examine various eyewitness writings, drawings, paintings and skeletal remains, which depict the Dodo as it actually was, and helps us to understand how it was driven to extinction. It also traces what happened after..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Octavo, photographs, very good copy in dustwrapper. Until about 13,000 years ago, Europe and North America were home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become our cities and streets. Then, just as the first humans..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, text illustrations. As recently as 11,000 years ago mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest..... More
Norg: DrukWare, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, maps. In March 2000, while fishing for flatfish, a Dutch fishig vessel from the village of Urk brought up a fossilized lower jaw bone of a Saber-toothed cat (Homotherium latidens) from the bottom of the North Sea. At that time it..... More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs and illustrations, maps. Presents an overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico that synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs and text illustrations. Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposited on land. This moment marked the first step in the fascinating and complex..... More
Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. In this book the epic story of life on Earth is retold through some of the most significant fossils ever found. The book travels through 3.5 billion years of Earth's history and across all seven continents, showcasing the unusual and wonderful creatures..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Quarto, laminated boards, illustrations, maps. The first major work devoted to the late Cenozoic (Neogene) mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of Asia. This volume employs cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical dating methods to map the emergence of mammals across the continent. Written by specialists working in..... More