Palaeontology

Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly al...

This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in p...

A lavish volume in celebration of the astonishing fossils uncovered in Abu Dhabis deserts, a region once lush, green, and teeming with now-extinct ...

In this collection, the authors begin by discussing the Quaternary, the most recent geological period of time in Earth''''s history spanning the la...

In 1980, the science world was stunned when a maverick team of researchers proposed that a massive meteor strike had wiped the dinosaurs and other ...

Quaternary of the Levant presents up-to-date research achievements from a region that displays unique interactions between the climate, the environ...

How did the dog become mans best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the his...

While todays Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the area was a lushly forested, tropical zone. Tropical Arctic track...

'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a r...

Are we now entering a mass extinction event? What can mass extinctions in Earth's history tell us about the Anthropocene? What do mass extinction e...

Woodperhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of...

Every day, in natural history museums all across the country, colonies of dermestid beetles diligently devour the decaying flesh off of animal skel...

A Times Higher Education Book of the WeekApproximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace ...

Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend in South A...

From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusias...

Spinster Mary Anning, uneducated and poor, was of the wrong sex, wrong class and wrong religion, but fate decreed that she was exactly the right pe...

Fossils are the fragments from which, piece by laborious piece, the great mosaic of the history of life has been constructed. Here and there, we ca...