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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,730 ratings — published 2018
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,065 ratings — published 2022
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,260 ratings — published 2022
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,272 ratings — published 2008
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,313 ratings — published 1989
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 14 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,764 ratings — published 2019
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,405 ratings — published 2000
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 844 ratings — published 2000
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.02 — 814 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,377 ratings — published 2014
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,245 ratings — published 1986
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.47 — 264 ratings — published
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,547 ratings — published 2003
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.42 — 493 ratings — published 2021
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 318 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.78 — 299 ratings — published 2002
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,183 ratings — published 2022
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.00 — 646 ratings — published 2021
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,423 ratings — published 2009
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,358 ratings — published 1997
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,082 ratings — published 2000
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.98 — 561 ratings — published 2018
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,074,711 ratings — published 1990
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,303 ratings — published 2012
Written in Stone: Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.06 — 905 ratings — published 2010
Vertebrate Palaeontology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.27 — 84 ratings — published 1990
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,687 ratings — published 2024
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.64 — 47 ratings — published
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 136 ratings — published 2001
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.19 — 404 ratings — published 1999
Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 2.42 — 161 ratings — published 2018
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,215 ratings — published 2017
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,646 ratings — published 2013
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 421 ratings — published 2014
The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.78 — 253 ratings — published 2001
Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 92 ratings — published 2003
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,060 ratings — published 1997
Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.77 — 399 ratings — published 2004
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 90 ratings — published 1990
World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures: The Ultimate Visual Reference To 1000 Dinosaurs And Prehistoric Creatures Of Land, Air And Sea From The Triassic, Jurassic And Cretaceous Eras (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.44 — 351 ratings — published 1988
Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.26 — 133 ratings — published
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,402 ratings — published 2009
The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 303 ratings — published
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 343 ratings — published
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore (Pedia Books)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.23 — 159 ratings — published 2021
Mammoths: Ice Age Giants (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.25 — 12 ratings — published 2014
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,123 ratings — published 2019
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,757 ratings — published 2020
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 372 ratings — published 2014
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 79 ratings — published 2016
“It goes without saying, but T. rex was huge: adults were about forty-two feet (thirteen meters) long and weighed in the ballpark of seven or eight tons, based on those equations from a few chapters ago, which calculate body weight from the thickness of the thighbone. These proportions are off the charts for carnivorous dinosaurs. The rulers of the Jurassic—the Butcher Allosaurus, Torvosaurus, and their kin—got up to about thirty-three feet (ten meters) long and a few tons—monsters to be sure, but they had nothing on Rex. After temperature and sea-level changes ushered in the Cretaceous, some of the carcharodontosaurs from Africa and South America got even bigger than their Jurassic predecessors. Giganotosaurus, for example, was about as long as T. rex and may have reached about six tons. But that’s still a good ton or two lighter than Rex, so the King stands alone as the biggest purely meat-eating animal that lived on land during the time of dinosaurs, or indeed at any time in the history of our planet.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
“These are feathers. Not the quill-pen feathers that make up the wings of today’s birds but simpler ones that look more like strands of hair. These were the ancestral structures that bird feathers evolved from, and it is now known that many (and perhaps all) dinosaurs had them. Yutyrannus and Dilong establish beyond a doubt that tyrannosaurs were among these feathered dinosaurs. Unlike birds, tyrannosaurs certainly were not flying. Instead, they probably used their feathers for display or to keep warm. And because both a large tyrannosaur like Yutyrannus and a small tyrannosaur like Dilong have feathers, this implies that the common ancestor of all tyrannosaurs had feathers, and therefore that the great T. rex itself was most likely feathered, too.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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