Palaeontology

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What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished? What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far ...

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock a...

A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their pla...

Aeglidae focuses on these unique crustaceans who are endemic to South America. The book is the first to summarize the diverse aspects of the Aeglid...

An insightful and informative meander through the evolution of dinosaurs and other extinct species, with a touch of personal flair.Steve Brusatte, ...

Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxfo...

The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With t...

This book presents a groundbreaking hypothesis to answer one of the greatest scientific mysteries: How did life begin? Like a detective piecing tog...

The heart of this volume is exploring the links between human disease spread and the broad Silk Road trading networks which connect Eurasian civili...

This book details the long, diverse, and complex phylogenetic history of elephants and their fossil relatives (the Proboscidea), whose origin is de...

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both li...

In the Miocene and Pliocene fossil shell beds of the eastern United States, the single most spectacular molluscan species radiation is seen in the ...

Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology summarizes decades of research into the biology and biological meaning of hard tissues, in both li...

Fossils of Arabia explores how Arabian palaeontology has contributed to our understanding of the story of life, from its earliest beginnings to the...

This volume provides individual treatments of the major molluscan taxa. Each chapter provides an overview of the evolution, phylogeny and classific...