Monograph. Cambridge University Press. 2001. - 672 p. (in English). Fundamental work of American and Russian paleontologists. The authors tried to give a detailed picture of the distribution of Paleogene reptiles and mammals in the territory of the former USSR and Mongolia. In addition to describing individual taxa, much attention is paid to the history of paleontological...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 352 p. In this fascinating and accessible overview, renowned paleontologist Michael J. Benton reveals how our understanding of dinosaurs is being transformed by recent fossil finds and new technology. Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in...
Thames & Hudson, 2019. — 352 p. In this fascinating and accessible overview, renowned paleontologist Michael J. Benton reveals how our understanding of dinosaurs is being transformed by recent fossil finds and new technology. Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in...
2nd edition - USA, Indiana University Press, 2012. - 1272 p. What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of...
2nd edition. — Indiana University Press, 2012. — 1272 p. What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did dinosaurs grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the study of dinosaurs...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 336 p. The study of dinosaurs has been experiencing a remarkable renaissance over the past few decades. Scientific understanding of dinosaur anatomy, biology, and evolution has advanced to such a degree that paleontologists often know more about 100-million-year-old dinosaurs than many species of living organisms. This book provides a contemporary...
William Morrow, 2018. — 251 p. — ISBN10: 0062490427, 13 978-0062490421.The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Readers vote! In this captivating narrative (enlivened with more than seventy original illustrations and photographs), Steve Brusatte, a young American paleontologist who has emerged as one of the foremost stars of the field — naming fifteen new species...
William Morrow, 2018. — 416 p. 66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting edge technology, is piecing together the complete story of how the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 150 million years. The world of the dinosaurs has fascinated...
London: Geological Society Publishing, 2003. — 347 p. — ISBN13: 978-1862391437. Pterosaurs were a peculiar group of Mesozoic vertebrates, which acquired the ability to fly in an original way, using a membrane attached to a single finger of the hand. Ever since the first description of a pterosaur skeleton in 1784, these remarkable animals have elicited much discussion and...
2nd Edition. — University Alabama Press, 2016. — 352 p. The Steven C. Minkin (Union Chapel) Paleozoic Footprint Site ranks among the most important fossil sites in the world today, and Footprints in Stone recounts the accidental revelation of its existence and detailed findings about its fossil record. Currently 2,500 miles from the equator and more than 250 miles north of the...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 384 p. Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon, one of the first...
Indiana University Press, 2006. — 384 p. Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter’s series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on these two groups of animals. The Ornithopods include Iguanodon, one of the first...
2nd Printing edition — Indiana University Press, 2005. — 392 p. 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 birds. The theropod/bird connection has been explored in several recent works, but this book presents 17 papers on a variety of other topics. It is organized into...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 623 p. Hadrosaurs - also known as duck-billed dinosaurs - are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology and...
Editors. — Dorling Kindersley, 2003. — 376 p. — ISBN: 978-1405300995. Discover 400 million years of life - from jawless fish to the Allosaurus and giant sloths, to the dawn of mankind. The book is organized into four easy-to-use sections, with a comprehensive reference section explaining how to find, study and date fossils.
Indiana University Press, 2016. — 428 p. — (Life of the Past). — ISBN: 978-0253021021. The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate state-of-the-art approaches and techniques, such as...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
Indiana University Press, 2018. — 750 p. How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs,...
CRC Press, 2017. — 240 p. The Arctic was not always cold and inhospitable. Millions of years ago dinosaurs roamed under tree ferns in a warmer world. This book is a survey of the dinosaurs found in the rocks of this now frigid landscape. The author has spent decades exploring fossil bearing sediments of the Mesozoic and has written a lively and readable account of this ancient...
William Collins, 2018. — 528 p. In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of dinosaurs’ lives contain ideas that are no more than convenient inventions: how dinosaurs mated, how they hunted and communicated, how they nursed their young, even how they moved. He uncovers many surprising details which...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 629 p. In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all...
Indiana University Press, 2012. — 629 p. In 1878, the first complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered in a coal mine in Bernissart, Belgium. Iguanodon, first described by Gideon Mantell on the basis of fragments discovered in England in 1824, was initially reconstructed as an iguana-like reptile or a heavily built, horned quadruped. However, the Bernissart skeleton changed all...
Arcturus foulsham, 2008 – 162 p. ISBN: 0572034008 This big book of dinosaurs provides the answer to every question the modern dinosaur enthusiast could ever have! Packed with full colour illustrations and bite-sized fact files, this attractive and informative guide takes the intrepid reader on an A to Z journey through the prehistoric world. It provides information on how to...
Arcturus foulsham, 2008. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0572034009. This book of dinosaurs provides the answer to every question the modern dinosaur enthusiast could have. Packed iwth full colour illustrations and bit-sized fact files, this guide takes the reader on an A-Z journey through the prehistoric world.
Oxford University Press, 1998. — 265 p. The Pleistocene epoch or Ice Age, an extended period of advancing and retreating ice sheets, is characterized by striking climatic oscillations and sea level fluctuations. This age saw the rise and spread of humans and a great extinction of large mammals by the end of the epoch; in fact, the world today is essentially the product of...
Bloomsbury, 2016. — 304 p. Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King Kong, Triceratops or velociraptors in Jurassic Park. But despite the hype, Tyrannosaurus and the other tyrannosaurs are fascinating animals in their own right, and are...
2nd Rev. Edition — Columbia University Press, 2000. — 360 p. The long and distinguished tradition of tracking dinosaurs and other extinct animals in Europe dates back to the 1830s. Yet this venerable tradition of scientific activity cannot compare in magnitude and scope with the unprecedented spate of discovery and documentation of the last few years. Now, following on the...
American Philosophical Society, 1978. — 211 p. Today and for much of the past 200 million years, A amphibians have been small, inconspicuous forms. Although numerous in terms of species, frogs, salamanders, and apodans occupy a narrow range of habitats — tied by their anatomy and physiology to shallow fresh water or damp terrestrial environments. In the absence of competition...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 368 p. Magnificent full dinosaur skeletons like Sue, the T. Rex specimen currently housed in Chicago’s Field Museum, have been invaluable to paleontologists in discovering how these reptilian behemoths moved and behaved many millions of years ago. Yet many dinosaur buffs may be surprised to learn just how little current information about these creatures...
Pegasus Books, 2014. — 368 p. What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic animals had a165-million year history on earth, and had adapted to all land-based environments from pole to pole? What clues would be left to discern not only their presence, but also to learn about their sex lives, raising of young,...
London: Dorling Kindersley, 2018. — 226 p. The prehistoric world What is a dinosaur? Mesozoic Era The Triassic The Jurassic The Cretaceous A changing world The Mesozoic world Types of dinosaur What did dinosaurs look like? What else was there? They aren’t dinosaurs! Ancient insects Ancient fish Ancient reptiles Ancient mammals Life as a dinosaur Dino dinner Meat-eaters...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 0691180318, 13 978-0691180311. An illustrated record book of theropod facts and figures-from the biggest to the fastest to the smartest The theropod dinosaurs ruled the planet for millions of years, with species ranging from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex to feathered raptors no bigger than turkeys. Dinosaur Facts and Figures...
Geological Society Special Publication No.343, 2010. — 388 p. — ISBN: 1862393117. The discovery of dinosaurs and other large extinct saurians - a term under which the Victorians commonly lumped ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs and their kin - makes exciting reading and has caught the attention of palaeontologists, historians of science and the general public alike. The...
London: Geological Society Publishing, 2013. — 624 p. — ISBN13: 978-1862393615. Archosaurs, an important reptile group that includes todays crocodiles and birds, arose during the Triassic in the aftermath of the greatest mass extinction of all time. In the last 20 years, our understanding of the early evolution of the group has improved substantially with the discovery of new...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0-226-62272-9. Dinosaurs have held sway over our imaginations since the discovery of their bones first shocked the world in the nineteenth century. From the monstrous beasts stalking Jurassic Park to the curiosities of the natural history museum, dinosaurs are creatures that unite young and old in awestruck...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The popularity of dinosaurs seems never ending, as evidenced by the popularity of films such Jurassic Park and documentaries like Walking with Dinosaurs. But how much do these types of entertainment really tell us about recent scientific discoveries and the latest research into the world of the dinosaur?This...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 394 p. The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane", a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and "Sir William" and the...
Indiana University Press, 2013. — 394 p. The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane", a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium, includes studies of the tyrannosaurids Chingkankousaurus fragilis and "Sir William" and the...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 321 p. — ISBN: 069113720X. This lavishly illustrated volume is the first authoritative dinosaur book in the style of a field guide. World-renowned dinosaur illustrator and researcher Gregory Paul provides comprehensive visual and textual coverage of the great Mesozoic animals that gave rise to the living dinosaurs, the birds. Incorporating...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ISBN: 0801867630. Voted Best Book of 2002 by Readers of Prehistoric Times Magazine. Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds presents the most recent work of renowned evolutionary scientist and dinosaur illustrator Gregory Paul. Dinosaurs of the Air synthesizes the growing body of evidence which suggests...
3rd Edition. — Princeton University Press, 2024. — 384 p. A fully updated and expanded edition of the acclaimed, best-selling dinosaur field guide. The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. — 362 p. The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format edition features some 100 new dinosaur species and 200 new and updated...
1st edition- Princeton University Press, 2022 - 208. Discoveries are revealing that many ancient oceangoing reptiles were energetic animals capable of inhabiting an array of watery habitats and climates, including polar winters. The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the great Mesozoic groups that commanded...
Princeton University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780691180175. Once seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of thriving in an array of habitats and climates, including polar winters. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs transforms our understanding of these great Mesozoic archosaurs of the air. This incredible guide covers 115...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2003. ISBN: 0312310080. The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs is a startling definitive look at the monsters of the Mesozoic era. It provides a complete portrait of their existence, including how they evolved, what they looked like, where they lived, how they behaved, and why they died. Groundbreaking essays by acclaimed paleontologists detail...
Columbia University Press, 2014. — 240 p. The discovery of stunning, feathered dinosaur fossils coming out of China since 2006 suggest that these creatures were much more bird-like than paleontologists previously imagined. Further evidence - bones, genetics, eggs, behavior, and more - has shown a seamless transition from fleet-footed carnivores to the ancestors of modern birds....
Columbia University Press, 2017. — 280 p. From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian...
The Experiment, 2016. — 354 p. ISBN: 978-1615192748. A visual trove of more than 300 dinosaurs, with key anatomy, geology, history, and theory at a glance We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery-the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to...
The Experiment, 2014. — 352 p. — ISBN 10 9781615192748, ASIN 1615192743. A Main Selection of Scientific American Book Club "Remarkably all-encompassing and superbly illustrated...a fascinating tome." Huffington Post A visual trove of more than 300 dinosaurs, with key anatomy, geology, history, and theory at a glance We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery-the...
2nd Edition. — The Experiment, 2019. — 372 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61519-212-0. Bigger and Better, Updated and Expanded We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery — on average, we find one new dinosaur species per week. The most fascinating among them take their place in this updated edition of Dinosaurs — The Grand Tour; from Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link...
Harvard University Press, 2017. — 368 p. One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon — the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. — 302 p. In this riveting nonfiction book, Alexander Popoff explains how the asteroid and volcano theories, which are prevalent among scholars, are not viable because they can’t explain many specifics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction: the presence of extraterrestrial amino acids in the soils for tens of thousands...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2010. — 285 p. — ISBN: 1615301038. It was a time of huge "thunder lizards" roaming steamy fern jungles; of "mammal-reptiles" walking the land of Laurasia; of continental movements, mountain building, and massive volcanoes; and a time of the most horrific, earth-shattering extinctions that ever occurred on this planet. It was the middle times...
Indiana University Press, 2019. — 256 p. Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because it boasts an astonishing fossil...
Indiana University Press, 2014. — 232 p. This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico 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 on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms,...
University of California Press, 2005. - 358 p. ISBN13: 978-0520246232. Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest animals ever to walk the earth, and they represent a substantial portion of vertebrate biomass and biodiversity during the Mesozoic Era. The story of sauropod evolution is told in an extensive fossil record of skeletons and footprints that span the globe and 150 million...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. — 276 p. This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin of tetrapod features and tries to explain how and why they transformed into organs that permit life on land. Although the major frame of the topic lies in the past 370 million years and necessarily...
Indiana University Press, 2005. — 513 p. — (Life of the Past). — ISBN10: 0253345421. — ISBN13: 978-0253345424. The large, quadrupedal herbivores known as sauropods were widespread around the planet from the Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous. With the longest necks and tails of all of the dinosaurs, some sauropods were 40 meters in length and weighed upwards of 100,000...
Palaeontologia Polonica 66, 2011. — 211 p. — ISSN: 0078−8562 In the marine Přidolian to early Lochkovian environments of Podolia, vertebrates were represented almost exclusively by thelodonts and acanthodians. Starting from the mid Lochkovian (Chortkiv Formation), the heterostracans increased their abundance and diversity. Diverse macroscopic remains of the cyathaspidid...
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