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
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
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