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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,128 ratings — published 2018
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,706 ratings — published 2022
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,774 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,739 ratings — published 2022
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,250 ratings — published 1989
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 13 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,632 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,129 ratings — published 2014
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,395 ratings — published 2000
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.02 — 787 ratings — published 2016
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 817 ratings — published 2000
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 — 2,236 ratings — published 1986
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 255 ratings — published
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,538 ratings — published 2003
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 314 ratings — published 2010
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.77 — 294 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 — 3,983 ratings — published 2022
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 634 ratings — published 2021
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 458 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 3.84 — 1,371 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 4.08 — 3,343 ratings — published 1997
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,077 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 3.97 — 553 ratings — published 2018
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,058,235 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 — 1,273 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 — 79 ratings — published 1990
Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,701 ratings — published 2020
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.64 — 44 ratings — published
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 137 ratings — published 2001
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.19 — 403 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
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 — 1,636 ratings — published 2013
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 420 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 3.79 — 249 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 — 2,033 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 3.76 — 394 ratings — published 2004
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 90 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 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,387 ratings — published 2024
Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.26 — 124 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 — 1,397 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 — 285 ratings — published
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.44 — 322 ratings — published
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore (Pedia Books)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.22 — 148 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 — 7,100 ratings — published 2019
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 369 ratings — published 2014
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 75 ratings — published 2016
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 266 ratings — published 2013
The Pterosaurs: From Deep Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 48 ratings — published 2005
“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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“The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me.”
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
― The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
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