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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 229 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,511 ratings — published 2018
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,529 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,515 ratings — published 2022
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 83 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,568 ratings — published 2019
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,530 ratings — published 2022
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,225 ratings — published 1989
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,895 ratings — published 2022
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,393 ratings — published 2000
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 419 ratings — published 2014
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,236 ratings — published 1986
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,535 ratings — published 2003
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 776 ratings — published 2016
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,006 ratings — published 2017
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.00 — 803 ratings — published 2000
Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,183 ratings — published 2009
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,016 ratings — published 1997
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,498 ratings — published 2014
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 446 ratings — published 2021
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,632 ratings — published 2013
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 313 ratings — published 2010
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,362 ratings — published 2009
Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.77 — 392 ratings — published 2004
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,717 ratings — published 2018
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,391 ratings — published 2009
Dragon Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 47,951 ratings — published 2017
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,339 ratings — published 1997
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.77 — 288 ratings — published 2002
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 624 ratings — published 2021
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,064 ratings — published 2000
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.06 — 903 ratings — published 2010
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 312 ratings — published
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,088 ratings — published 2019
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.50 — 250 ratings — published
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,259 ratings — published 2012
Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 381 ratings — published 1988
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,169 ratings — published 2007
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.98 — 782 ratings — published 2003
Raptor Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,641 ratings — published 1995
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 410 ratings — published 2015
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.97 — 551 ratings — published 2018
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 263 ratings — published 2013
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 90 ratings — published 1990
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,999 ratings — published 2022
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,565 ratings — published 2017
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,049,335 ratings — published 1990
Oceans Of Kansas: A Natural History Of The Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.98 — 192 ratings — published 2005
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 176 ratings — published 2006
After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.84 — 183 ratings — published 2006
Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.90 — 214 ratings — published
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,185 ratings — published 2020
“Without the more developed sense of history that only fully flourished in modernity - reflected in the notion of a future potentially utterly unlike the past - there is no room for thinking of perils or promises that outstrip present and past experience.”
― X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
― X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction
“Peut-être y a-t-il dans l'étude du vieux et des morts quelque chose qui maintient jeune et vivant.”
― Paleontology: An Illustrated History
― Paleontology: An Illustrated History
