Palaeontology

This illustrated introduction to Central American Chironomidae offers extensive photographic material, as well as detailed morphological and ecolog...

This book presents a hypothesis and evidence that organisms promote and ecosystems maximize biodiversity. All species have a net positive effect on...

This book will cover the entire evolutionary history that the terrestrial plants have recorded in Brazilian sedimentary rocks, ranging from the fir...

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basi...

Recent biodiversity studies, reported here for the first time, have shown that the molluscan fauna of the Gulf of Mexico is far richer and more com...

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles.Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embry...

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient...

Founded in 1966, the internationally recognized and acclaimed Series Palaeoecology of Africa publishes interdisciplinary scientific papers on lands...

The paleontological site of Senèze (Haute Loire, central France) was discovered in 1892 inside a volcanic crater. For over 40 years, local peasant ...

This volume presents an array of different case studies which take as primary material data sourced from the NOW (New and Old Worlds) database of f...

How scientists are unravelling one of the most tantalizing questions in paleontologyOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered b...

An illustrated guide to the marvelously diverse bird life of the dinosaur ageBirds are todays most diverse tetrapod group, but they have a rich and...

An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million yearsNew discoveries are transformin...

 This book offers insight into the relationship between prehistoric and protohistoric human populations and the world around them. It reconstructs ...

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water. It traces the origin ...