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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 234 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,161 ratings — published 2018
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,777 ratings — published 2008
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,751 ratings — published 2022
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 85 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,633 ratings — published 2019
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,712 ratings — published 2022
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,252 ratings — published 1989
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,991 ratings — published 2022
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 420 ratings — published 2014
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,396 ratings — published 2000
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,539 ratings — published 2003
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
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.02 — 788 ratings — published 2016
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,098 ratings — published 2017
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 817 ratings — published 2000
Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.90 — 55,485 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,156 ratings — published 2014
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,033 ratings — published 1997
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,636 ratings — published 2013
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 458 ratings — published 2021
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,373 ratings — published 2009
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 31 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 314 ratings — published 2010
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 3.76 — 394 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 — 2,735 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 — 1,397 ratings — published 2009
Dragon Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,590 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 4.08 — 3,343 ratings — published 1997
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.77 — 294 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 — 634 ratings — published 2021
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,077 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 — 905 ratings — published 2010
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.44 — 324 ratings — published
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,098 ratings — published 2019
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 255 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 — 1,275 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 — 3,172 ratings — published 2007
Raptor Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,695 ratings — published 1995
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.97 — 553 ratings — published 2018
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 4.10 — 418 ratings — published 2015
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
by (shelved 20 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.98 — 790 ratings — published 2003
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,031 ratings — published 2022
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,058,656 ratings — published 1990
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 266 ratings — published 2013
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 90 ratings — published 1990
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,587 ratings — published 2017
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 369 ratings — published 2014
Oceans Of Kansas: A Natural History Of The Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.97 — 200 ratings — published 2005
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.87 — 177 ratings — published 2006
After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)
by (shelved 16 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.84 — 185 ratings — published 2006
Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,203 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
“But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
