Palaeontology

The Mjølnir impact structure was recognized in 1993 and included in the Earth Impact Database in 1996, based on the discoveries of unequivocal mete...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cav...

This book discusses how and why animals evolved into particular shapes. The book identifies the physical laws which decide over the evolutionary (s...

When Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, one of his main concerns was with the perceived shortness of the fossil record of life. Until the work of ...

This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the g...

Luminescence Dating in the Natural Sciences covers the exponential number of applications and significant advances in methodology that have come to...

More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great bea...

What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before clima...

'The who, what, where, when and how of human evolution, from one of the world's experts on the dating of prehistoric fossils' Steve Brusatte, autho...

There is only one kind of human on earth today: us. But we are only one of a number of human species primates of the Hominini tribe that have exi...

A guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feetFrom trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia ...

In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New Yorks struggling American Mu...

When people today hear paleontology, they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of...

This monograph contains over fifty high-quality plates of electron micrographs of limestones. It spans the field of limestones in age from Cambrian...

The transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene epochs was the most significant event in earth history since the extinction of dinosaurs. As the fi...

Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator ...

For more than 250 million years, the primeval oceans of the Paleozoic teemed with trilobites. These hardy invertebrates evolved into an astonishing...

This monograph contains over fifty high-quality plates of electron micrographs of limestones. It spans the field of limestones in age from Cambrian...

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.An ...

Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of d...

Learning about dinosaurs has never been more fun or more creative. It's easy to think about dinosaurs as fantastical, other-worldly beasts, real o...