West Sussex: John Wiley and Sons, (2015. fourth edition). Octavo, paperback, photographs, illustrations, line drawings. This title is not held in stock but we are happy to supply on special order. Please contact us. Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries being reported every week. This new edition..... 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, 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..... 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
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..... 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
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..... 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, 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..... 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
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..... 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
London: Crowood Press, 2017. Quarto, paperback, colour illustrations. Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have always fascinated people but they pose vast problems for the artist. How do you go about recreating the anatomy and behaviour of a creature we've never seen? How can we restore landscapes long lost to time..... More