Drawing Out Leviathan

Keith M Parsons

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• " . . . are dinosaurs social constructs? Do we really know anything about dinosaurs? Might not all of our beliefs about dinosaurs merely be figments o... Lees meer

Earth Before the Dinosaurs

Sébastien Steyer

• Paperback | Engels | Life of the Past
• This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of the Dinosaurs. Readers voyage to a time, beginning... Lees meer

Fossils of the Carpathian Region

István Főzy, István Szente

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• István Fozy and István Szente provide a comprehensive review of the fossil record of the Carpathian Basin. Fossils of the Carpathian Region describes ... Lees meer

Thunder-Lizards

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• The large, quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods were widespread around the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longes... Lees meer

Patrons of Paleontology

Jane P Davidson

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geo... Lees meer

Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways of La Rioja

Félix Pérez-Lorente

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the region where the current foothills of Rioja now exist. Today the ... Lees meer

Dragons in the Dust

Ralph E Molnar

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Just 50,000 years ago the world was filled with fabulous creatures that are now forever gone. Australia's giant lizard, Megalania, was one of those. T... Lees meer

After the Dinosaurs

Donald R Prothero

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs beca... Lees meer

Dinosaurs of Darkness

Thomas H Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of it... Lees meer

The Carnivorous Dinosaurs

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• The meat-eating dinosaurs, or Theropoda, include some of the fiercest predators that ever lived. Some of the group's members survive to this day--as b... Lees meer

Life Through the Ages II

Mark P Witton

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century disc... Lees meer

African Dinosaurs Unearthed

Gerhard Maier

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossi... Lees meer

The White River Badlands

Rachel C Benton, Dennis O Terry, Emmett Evanoff, Hugh Gregory McDonald

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specime... Lees meer

Cambrian Ocean World

John Foster, David L Meyer

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cam... Lees meer

Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• New discoveries of ancient vertebrates, filling in gaps in the fossil record, are quickly eroding the traditionally recognized differences between the... Lees meer

The Complete Dinosaur

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Praise for the first edition "A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" -- Science "The amount of information in [these] pages is amazing. This book sho... Lees meer

Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• This book gathers the findings of a number of studies on North American cave paleontology. Although not intended to be all-inclusive, Ice Age Cave Fau... Lees meer

Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion f... Lees meer

Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King

• Boek | Engels | Life of the Past
• With its massive head, enormous jaws, and formidable teeth, Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the young person's favorite creepy carnivore in the Mesozo... Lees meer

Echinoderm Paleobiology

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• The dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which inclu... Lees meer

Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• This volume presents state-of-the-art papers on important topics and methods in the analysis of vertebrate microfossil assemblages. The minute remains... Lees meer

Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals a... Lees meer

King of the Crocodylians

David R Schwimmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• Toward the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, during a time known as the Late Cretaceous, a new type of giant predator appeared along the southern coasts of... Lees meer

Bernissart Dinosaurs and Early Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems

Godefroit

• Hardcover | Engels | Life of the Past
• In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on th... Lees meer