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 about Twilight of the mammoths: ice age extinctions and the rewilding of America

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 about Other Saber-tooths: scimitar-tooth cats of the Western Hemisphere

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 about Walking whales: from land to water in eight million years