Palaeontology

A beautiful and fascinating portrait of the world's most extreme wildlife, from the sexiest beast to the smelliest plant.

There are few things more endearing than baby animals, but their charm belies their struggle for survival.

Today there are 20 million species on our planet.

An identification guide to the most important and best known dinosaursDo you know the difference between a Coelophysis and a Diplodocus?

An easy-to-use and authoritative guide to over 220 species of snake from around the world, each entry specially selected to show the diversity of size, shape and colour of these respected creatures.

What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies?

Join zoologist Mark Carwardine and Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as they follow in their great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps, in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth.

The Collins Nature Library is a new series of classic British nature writing - reissues of long-lost seminal works.

The last five years have been marked by rapid technological and analytical developments in the study of shore processes and in the comprehension of shore deposits and forms, and shoreline change over time.

The perfect companion for the safari enthusiast, this complete traveller's guide to the wildlife of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Malawi is a must-have for all those considering a trip to the game reserves of this highly popular region.

British Bats is a comprehensive account of the natural history of these fascinating animals, from their origins and evolution to their feeding habits and reproduction.

Moths provides a comprehensive account of the diverse natural history of these fascinating and popular insects.

This illustrated survey of finch behaviour is a thorough, non-technical account of the habits of these birds throughout the world.

Leslie Brown's account of our 15 resident, 7 vagrant and 2 migrant species of eagles, falcons, hawks and vultures in Britain presents a great mass of scientific information about our birds of prey in a manner as attractive to the general reader as to the dedicated ornithologist.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

Building on the solid foundations established by the two earlier New Naturalist volumes on this subject, eminent herpetologists Trevor Beebee and Richard Griffiths have brought together a wealth of new and fascinating information on the British amphibians and reptiles.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.

Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs.

This New Naturalist volume provides a much-anticipated overview of these fascinating birds - the first book on the natural history of British and Irish terns since 1934.

With his groundbreaking findings and extensive research, palaeontologist and dino hunter Dr Phil Currie challenges the very foundations of traditional dinosaur theories.

An environmental parable for our times - the story of a beautiful blue bird meeting its nemesis at the end of the 20th-century.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

This edition does not include illustrations.

From the biggest teeth to the longest claws, SuperDinosaur uses jaw-dropping new lifelike images to bring you face-to-face with the most fearsome creatures that ever stalked the Earth.

Part of the series of award-winning, best-selling DK encyclopedias for children, this title has been completely revised to provide a comprehensive visual exploration of the entire range of prehistoric animal life.

A place of exceptional diversity, rapid change, and high energy, Europe has literally been at the crossroads of the world ever since the interaction of Asia, North America and Africa formed the tropical island archipelago that would become the continent of today.

'In the gloom it came along the branches towards me, its round, hypnotic eyes blazing, its spoon-like ears turning to and fro independently like radar dishes .

HOMO BRITANNICUS tells the epic history of life in Britain, from man s very first footsteps to the present day.

The book deals with the record of important Neoproterozoic to Early Palaeozoic events in southwestern Gondwana, that heralded the Cambrian explosion and the dawn of modern ecosystems.

This book presents both state-of-the art knowledge from Recent coral reefs (1.

Precambrian of the Northern Hemisphere

The Late Neogene

Climate for the 21st century is expected to be considerably different from the present and recent past.

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.

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This beautifully illustrated text book, with state-of-the-art illustrations, is useful not only for an introduction to the subject, but also for the application of marine microfossils in paleoceanographic, paleoenvironmental and biostratigraphic analyses.

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987).

The geographic and stratigraphic distribution of fossil nonmarine Ostracoda in the United States are summarized in this book, followed by diagnoses of the subject species, references to literature and 34 plates of illustrations.

This book presents a synthesis of the principal environmental characteristics of the Cretaceous in East and South Asia.

The theory of the Earth's climate evolution based on universal chemical-physical laws of matter-energy transformation is presented in the book.

The present volume is the first in a series of two books dedicated to the paleoceanography of the Late Cenozoic ocean.

In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.

The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate.

This book serves as an up-to-date introduction, as well as overview to modern trace fossil research and covers nearly all of the essential aspects of modern ichnology.