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...
Marum: Art Revisited, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, laminated boards.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, black and white 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...
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...
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...
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations by Peter Schouten. 9780199361410 New fossil evidence has recently shown that not all the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. It's a revelation that has profoundly changed the way we perceive the natural world and has given us a new understanding...
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...
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...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Quarto, dustwrapper, colourblack and white illustrations and photographs. Like the better-known Smilodon, or saber-tooth cat, the scimitar-tooth cats of the New World were fierce predators that killed and consumed the largest of North America's species. This volume syntheses all currently known information about the...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations, colour plates. Analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance. Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic...
Oakland: University of California Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour and black and white illustrations, line drawings. A leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, Thewissen, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the...
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...
