Paleontology
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Jurassic West, Second Edition: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World
$60.00 Add to cartThe famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, formed one hundred and fifty million years ago and running from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of
- Series: Life of the Past
- Author: Foster, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0253051576
- Language: English
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Bone Wars: The Excavation and Celebrity of Andrew Carnegie’s Dinosaur, Twentieth Anniversary Edition
$20.00 Add to cartWith a New Foreword by Matthew C. Lamanna and a New Afterword by Tom Rea
Less than one hundred years ago, Diplodocus carnegii–named after industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie–was the most
- Author: Rea, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0822966700
- Language: English
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The Dinosaur Hunters: A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World
$19.99 Add to cartThe story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.
In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’
- Series: True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Pr
- Author: Cadbury, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 02 2001
- ISBN10: 1857029631
- Language: English
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Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America
$65.00 Add to cartThis volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth’s histor
- Series: Life of the Past
- Author: Foster, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: June 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0253011825
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartDinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fueled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely no… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Norman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0198795920
- Language: English
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The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time
$49.00 Add to cartThe landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert … [more below]
- Author: Grande, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0226922960
- Language: English
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Wakan Tanka: On Human Origins, Spirituality and the Meaning of Life
$23.99 Add to cartWhere did we come from? Why are we here? Is there a god? In our modern world, many people yearn for answers to these most fundamental of life’s questions, having become disillusioned with trite explan… [more below]
- Author: Bennett, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1525576941
- Language: English
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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
$29.95 Add to cartFossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow cre
- Author: Lomax, Dean R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0231197284
- Language: English
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Fossils: The Key to the Past
$24.95 Add to cart“Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers.”–Bill Bryson
In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comp
- Author: Fortey, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1501700537
- Language: English
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Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art
$28.00 Read more“Kindred is important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.”–The New York Times Book Review
“[A] bold and magnificent at- Author: Sykes, Rebecca Wragg
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 147293749X
- Language: English
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
$19.95 Add to cartSixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized de
- Series: Princeton Science Library #39
- Author: Alvarez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169667
- Language: English
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Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award
No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears th
Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction- Author: Stark, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229029
- Language: English
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Age of Pterosaurs
$29.95 Read moreRevisit the ancient world of flying creatures, and see them soar overhead in this detailed guide to the rulers of the skies. Discover the time of pterosaurs and watch as they develop the power of flig… [more below]
- Series: Pnso Field Guide to the Ancient World #2
- Author: Yang, Yang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1612545297
- Language: English
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Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
$39.95 Add to cartTrilobites were some of the most successful and versatile organisms ever to exist. Among the earliest forms of complex animal life, these hard-shelled marine invertebrates inhabited the primal seas of
- Author: Secher, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 023120096X
- Language: English
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Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction
$19.99 Add to cartEcological competition began as slow arms races. Predators evolved to hunt. Prey evolved to defend themselves. Each improvement was small, barely shifting the odds of survival. Nature remained in equi
- Author: Edmeades, Baz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1544526512
- Language: English
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Megafauna: First Victims of the Human-Caused Extinction
$37.99 Add to cartEcological competition began as slow arms races. Predators evolved to hunt. Prey evolved to defend themselves. Each improvement was small, barely shifting the odds of survival. Nature remained in equi
- Author: Edmeades, Baz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1544526539
- Language: English
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Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
$39.95 Add to cartThe most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles available
For 150 million years, the skies didn’t belong to birds–they belonged to the pterosaurs. These flying reptiles, which include the- Author: Witton, Mark P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0691150613
- Language: English
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Dinosaurs: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-To-Use Guide
$7.99 Read moreDinosaurs have long been a source of speculation. This beautifully illustrated guide includes:
– Fascinating facts about these animals that ruled the earth for more than 100 million years – Key featur- Series: Golden Guide from St. Martin’s Press
- Author: Gaffney, Eugene S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 14 2001
- ISBN10: 1582381372
- Language: English
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Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
$19.95 Add to cartFossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow cre
- Author: Lomax, Dean R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0231197292
- Language: English
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartAustralopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites–such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form onl
- Series: Princeton Science Library #35
- Author: Knoll, Andrew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 22 2015
- ISBN10: 069116553X
- Language: English
