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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,066 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,716 ratings — published 2022
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 — 29,687 ratings — published 2008
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 92 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,857 ratings — published 2019
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,367 ratings — published 2022
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,368 ratings — published 1989
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,375 ratings — published 2022
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,421 ratings — published 2000
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 424 ratings — published 2014
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.02 — 830 ratings — published 2016
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,557 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 — 2,243 ratings — published 1986
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,330 ratings — published 2017
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 869 ratings — published 2000
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,090 ratings — published 1997
Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.90 — 56,953 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,510 ratings — published 2014
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.42 — 509 ratings — published 2021
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,462 ratings — published 2009
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,668 ratings — published 2013
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,826 ratings — published 2018
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 31 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 319 ratings — published 2010
Dragon Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,869 ratings — published 2017
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 — 405 ratings — published 2004
How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,415 ratings — published 2009
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.00 — 671 ratings — published 2021
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 — 3,362 ratings — published 1997
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.78 — 302 ratings — published 2002
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,099 ratings — published 2000
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 355 ratings — published
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
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.48 — 265 ratings — published
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,143 ratings — published 2019
Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 386 ratings — published 1988
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.98 — 565 ratings — published 2018
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,321 ratings — published 2012
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 994 ratings — published 2025
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.12 — 443 ratings — published 2015
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,090,318 ratings — published 1990
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.50 — 274 ratings — published 2013
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,171 ratings — published 2007
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 3.97 — 806 ratings — published 2003
Raptor Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,957 ratings — published 1995
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,151 ratings — published 2022
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 90 ratings — published 1990
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,949 ratings — published 2020
Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 294 ratings — published
Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.24 — 140 ratings — published
Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,639 ratings — published 2017
Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 376 ratings — published 2014
“When we think of the Age of Dinosaurs, our minds go straight to T.rex and Triceratops, but really, during the Cretaceous the most successful dinosaurs of all -- in terms of their diversity, global reach, and mastery of a new lifestyle -- wer the birds.”
― The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
― The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present
“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
