Palaeontology

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.

'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.

This balanced exploration of how Christians understand dinosaurs presents young-earth, old-earth, intelligent design, and theistic evolutionary perspectives with fairness and respect.

Two billion years ago, the Earth looked nothing like the planet we know today.

Dinosaurs and the Lost World of the Mesozoic is a compelling and research-driven exploration of one of the most fascinating eras in Earth's history—the Mesozoic Era.

From the moment life first sparked in Earth's ancient oceans to the rise of modern humans, The 3.

Hace millones de anos, en un paisaje africano sometido a profundas transformaciones climaticas, algunos primates comenzaron a cambiar su relacion con el entorno.

Die Entzifferung alter DNA hat sich zum mageblichen Erkenntnismotor der Vergangenheitsforschung entwickelt.

A revelatory, up-to-date account of everything we now know about dinosaur behavior, from a renowned global expertOur understanding of dinosaur behavior has long been hampered by the inevitable lack of evidence from animals that went extinct more than sixty-five million years ago and whose daily behaviors are rarely reflected by the fossil record.

Una genial antología de los mejores artículos para Investigación y ciencia del gran experto en antropología y evolución cerebral, Emiliano Bruner.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Fossilien!

The purpose of this book is to prove, through Biblical scripture, whether or not dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time as human beings.

An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million yearsNew discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs, revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome predators.

Presenta los resultados de cuatro proyectos realizados entre 1995 y 2010.

Hans Dominiks Flug in den Weltraum ist ein bahnbrechender Dystopie-Klassiker, der in einer fiktiven Zukunft spielt, in der die Menschheit den Weltraum erobert hat.

Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne are back with a new title in the Best in Show series.

¿Sabes en qué consiste el trabajo de un paleontólogo?

Affenähnlich und kognitiv nicht fähiger als Vieh – so beurteilte die Fachwelt die ersten bekannten Knochen eines Neandertalers, die 1856 bei Düsseldorf aus einem Steinbruch purzelten.

Find out ALL ABOUT dinosaurs in this fun-filled fact book for kids aged 7+.

A Guardian 'Book of the day'For millennia, elms shaped our landscape and our folklore; then they started dying.

Obwohl Menschen auf keinen Fall zu den gefährdeten Tierarten auf diesem Planeten gehören, treibt Menschen offensichtlich die Sorge und die Befürchtung um, dass die Menschheit nicht überleben und damit die Tierart Homo sapiens für immer ausgelöscht werden könnte.

It's time to shun our perfectionist society and discover the beauty in everything!

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

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.

Ostracod crustaceans, common microfossils in marine and freshwater sedimentary records, supply evidence of past climatic conditions via indicator species, transfer function and mutual climatic range approaches as well as the trace element and stable isotope geochemistry of their shells.

Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period.

An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures.

'A call to arms for everyone' Steve Backshall'Eye-opening' New ScientistThe diversity of life on earth is astounding, with each species perfectly adapted to its environment.

Eine (Zeit-)Reise in die Welt der UrzeitriesenDinosaurier.

The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago.

Unraveling the mystery of the catastrophic age of extinctionsTwo hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet.

The most authoritative illustrated book on flying reptiles availableFor 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birdsthey belonged to the pterosaurs.