The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
By: Gregory Paul
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover how dinosaurs evolved, how they looked, where they lived, how they behaved, and why they …
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
By: Michael J. Benton
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million yea… read more
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3. Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World
By: John Foster , John Foster
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, whose rocks are exposed from Wyoming down through t… read more
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4. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
By: David Hone
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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5. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
6. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
By: Darren Naish
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 … read more
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7. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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8. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
By: George McGhee
4.31
Format: None pages, ebook
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with t… read more
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9. When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions
By: George R. McGhee
4.17
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events … read more
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10. The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa (Life of the Past)
By: Jamale Ijouiher
4.20
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''L… read more
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11. The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs
By: Gregory Paul
4.31
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Discover how dinosaurs evolved, how they looked, where they lived, how they behaved, and why they … read more
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- science
12. Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
By: Trenton W. Holliday
4.14
Format: None pages, ebook
During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, r… read more
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