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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 — 39,512 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 — 28,530 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 — 55,184 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 — 78,499 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 — 47,953 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 — 1,049,353 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
“Many a dinosaur was probably swept away by floodwaters or entombed by mud avalanches. But the megamonsoons also had another effect. They helped divide Pangea into environmental provinces, characterized by different amounts of precipitation, varying severity of the monsoonal winds, and different temperatures. The equatorial region was extremely hot and humid, a tropical hell that would make summer in today’s Amazon seem a trip to Santa’s workshop by comparison. Then there were vast stretches of desert, extending about 30 degrees of latitude on either side of the equator—like the Sahara, only covering a much broader swath of the planet. Temperatures here were well into the hundreds (over 35 degrees Celsius), probably all year long, and the monsoonal rains that pounded other parts of Pangea were absent here, offering little more than a trickle of precipitation. But the monsoons exerted a great impact in the midlatitudes. These areas were slightly cooler but much more wet and humid than the deserts, far more hospitable to life. Herrerasaurus, Eoraptor, and the other Ischigualasto dinosaurs lived in such a setting, smack in the middle of the midlatitude humid belt of southern Pangea.”
― The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
― The Age of Dinosaurs: The Rise and Fall of the World’s Most Remarkable Animals
“The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion.”
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