Category Archives: Vertebrate

The Bone Museum: Travels in the Lost Worlds of Dinosaurs and Birds

Posted on February 26, 2003 by singleton

From China to Patagonia, award-winning science writer Wayne Grady accompanies a team of paleontologists on several digs. Following the work of Phil Currie, a leading vertebrate paleontologist, the author traces the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. Living in tents … Continue reading →

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Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids

Posted on February 25, 2002 by singleton

Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, … Continue reading →

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Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs

Posted on February 25, 2002 by singleton

Our knowledge of the origin and early evolution of birds has exploded in the past ten to fifteen years. In the 1990s alone, scientists became aware of approximately three times more species of early birds than were previously known, marking … Continue reading →

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Chinese Fossil Vertebrates

Posted on February 25, 2001 by singleton

The literature on Chinese fossil vertebrates is extremely difficult for Western scholars to assimilate and interpret. In part, this is because much of that literature is in Chinese, and few useful reviews exist in Western languages. Yet China has an … Continue reading →

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Tyrannosaurus Sue: The Extraordinary Saga of the Largest, Most Fought over T-Rex Ever Found

Posted on February 25, 2000 by singleton

Over 65 million years ago in what is now Cheyenne River Sioux territory in South Dakota, a Tyrannosaurus rex matriarch locked in a ferocious battle fell mortally wounded into a riverbed. In 1990, her skeleton was found, virtually complete, in … Continue reading →

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Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe: Volume 1, The Evolution of Neogene Terrestrial Ecosystems in Europe (Hominoid Evolution and Climatic Change in Europe Volume 1) (v. 1)

Posted on February 25, 1999 by singleton

Europe has changed greatly in terms of climate and environment in the past twenty million years. Once there were subtropical forests, but by the end of the Miocene, five million years ago, these had all gone. This unique book provides … Continue reading →

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Pleistocene Amphibians and Reptiles in Britain and Europe (Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics)

Posted on February 26, 1998 by singleton

This book discusses the Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in Britain and the European continent eastward through present-day Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Yugoslavian republics, and Greece.

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The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why The Ice Age Mammals Disappeared

Posted on February 25, 1998 by singleton

If you went back in time to the site of Los Angeles as it looked 12,000 years agoat the height of the last Ice Agethe animal population might remind you of Africa. You would see saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths … Continue reading →

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Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga

Posted on February 25, 1997 by singleton

From the purple phenomenon that is Barney to the blockbuster draw of Jurassic Park, dinosaurs still rule the earth. Dinosaur Lives explores the appeal that dinosaurs have for us, explains the latest scientific research and then takes us into their … Continue reading →

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Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs

Posted on February 25, 1997 by singleton

This book is the most authoritative encyclopedia ever prepared on dinosaurs and dinosaur science. In addition to entries on specific animals such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Velociraptor, the Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs covers reproduction, behavior, physiology, and extinction. The book is … Continue reading →

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