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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,219 ratings — published 2018
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as paleontology)
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 102 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 30,093 ratings — published 2008
Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
by (shelved 95 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,932 ratings — published 2019
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,617 ratings — published 2022
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,428 ratings — published 1989
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,549 ratings — published 2022
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,422 ratings — published 2000
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 853 ratings — published 2016
Dinosaurs Without Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.16 — 429 ratings — published 2014
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,573 ratings — published 2003
The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,247 ratings — published 1986
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,114 ratings — published 1997
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,445 ratings — published 2017
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 884 ratings — published 2000
Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.90 — 57,509 ratings — published 2009
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,456 ratings — published 2014
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.41 — 518 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 — 1,494 ratings — published 2009
Dragon Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 51,853 ratings — published 2017
My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,676 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 — 2,878 ratings — published 2018
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Princeton Field Guides)
by (shelved 31 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.29 — 320 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 3.77 — 404 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 — 1,421 ratings — published 2009
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,368 ratings — published 1997
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.01 — 693 ratings — published 2021
The Dinosaur Hunters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,108 ratings — published 2000
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.79 — 304 ratings — published 2002
The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,472 ratings — published 2026
The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.43 — 367 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 — 909 ratings — published 2010
A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 24 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,170 ratings — published 2019
Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.48 — 268 ratings — published
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,104,625 ratings — published 1990
Digging Dinosaurs: The Search That Unraveled the Mystery of Baby Dinosaurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.94 — 387 ratings — published 1988
When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,083 ratings — published 2025
The Story of Life in 25 Fossils: Tales of Intrepid Fossil Hunters and the Wonders of Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.11 — 447 ratings — published 2015
All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,354 ratings — published 2012
The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,194 ratings — published 2022
Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.49 — 276 ratings — published 2013
Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,172 ratings — published 2007
Raptor Red (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.96 — 10,087 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 3.99 — 569 ratings — published 2018
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 — 814 ratings — published 2003
Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 3.88 — 311 ratings — published
The Dinosauria (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.38 — 91 ratings — published 1990
Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.50 — 242 ratings — published
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,083 ratings — published 2020
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as paleontology)
avg rating 4.02 — 857 ratings — published 2024
“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 ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
― The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present ― A Bestselling Paleontologist's Sweeping Story of Birds
“The initial eruptions in Morocco released clouds of carbon dioxide, a powerful greenhouse gas, which rapidly warmed the planet. It got so hot that strange ice formations buried within the seafloor, called clathrates, melted in unison all throughout the world’s oceans. Clathrates are unlike the solid blocks of ice we’re used to, the ones we put in our drinks or carve into fancy sculptures at parties. They are a more porous substance, a latticework of frozen water molecules that can trap other substances inside it. One of those substances is methane, a gas that seeps up constantly from the deep Earth and infiltrates the oceans but is caged in the clathrates before it can leak into the atmosphere. Methane is nasty: it’s an even more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, packing an earth-warming punch over thirty-five times as great. So when that first torrent of volcanic carbon dioxide increased global temperatures and melted the clathrates, all of that once-trapped methane was suddenly released. This initiated a runaway train of global warming. The amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere approximately tripled within a few tens of thousands of years, and temperatures increased by 3 or 4 degrees Celsius.”
― 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
