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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,217 ratings — published 2018
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,617 ratings — published 2022
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,105 ratings — published 2022
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,093 ratings — published 2008
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,428 ratings — published 1989
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 14 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,932 ratings — published 2019
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,422 ratings — published 2000
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 884 ratings — published 2000
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 853 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,456 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 — 2,247 ratings — published 1986
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.48 — 268 ratings — published
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,573 ratings — published 2003
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 320 ratings — published 2010
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,494 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.79 — 304 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 — 4,548 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 — 693 ratings — published 2021
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.41 — 518 ratings — published 2021
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 569 ratings — published 2018
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 — 3,368 ratings — published 1997
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,108 ratings — published 2000
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,104,619 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 4.27 — 1,354 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 — 909 ratings — published 2010
Vertebrate Palaeontology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.27 — 88 ratings — published 1990
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 91 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 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.44 — 357 ratings — published 1988
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 3.75 — 3,147 ratings — published 2024
The Sauropod Dinosaurs (Life in the Age of Giants)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.62 — 48 ratings — published
Walking with Beasts: A Prehistoric Safari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 136 ratings — published 2001
Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.18 — 409 ratings — published 1999
Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 2.42 — 167 ratings — published 2018
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,445 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 — 1,676 ratings — published 2013
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 429 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 — 260 ratings — published 2001
Sea Dragons: Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.90 — 94 ratings — published 2003
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,114 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 — 404 ratings — published 2004
The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 3.52 — 566 ratings — published 2009
Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.22 — 143 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 — 1,421 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 4.14 — 329 ratings — published
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 367 ratings — published
Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore (Pedia Books)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.24 — 178 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 — 7,170 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 — 2,854 ratings — published 2020
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as palaeontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 376 ratings — published 2014
“Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular science, but sometimes I prefer not to think about all that energy and chaos around my precious findings.”
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
― Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
“Pangea may have been a united landmass, but its treacherous weather and extreme climates gave it a dangerous unpredictability. It wouldn’t have been a particularly safe or pleasant place to call home. But the very first dinosaurs had no choice. They entered a world still recovering from the terrible mass extinction at the end of the Permian, a land subject to the violent whims of storms and the blight of blistering temperatures. So did many other new types of plants and animals that were getting their start after the mass extinction cleared the planet. All of these newbies were thrust onto an evolutionary battlefield. It was far from certain that dinosaurs were going to emerge triumphant. After all, they were small and meek creatures, nowhere near the top of the food chain during their earliest years. They were hanging around with lots of other species of small-to-midsize reptiles, early mammals, and amphibians in the middle of the food pyramid, fearful of the crocodile-line archosaurs, who held the throne. Nothing was handed to the dinosaurs. They were going to have to earn it.”
― 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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