Palaeontology

This book recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Professor Ashok Sahni to the field of paleontology.

Topical review of the role of extinction in evolution for students and researchers.

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms.

This book chronicles the discovery and analysis of animal fossils found in one of the most important paleontological sites in the world-Porcupine Cave, located at an elevation of 9,500 feet in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

Any inference drawn from plain remains recovered from archaeological sites is based on the classes of such remains that are, at present, possible to identify.

The first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, arguing that animals have always played a range of roles in human societies.

This volume discusses the aspects of a phylogenetic analysis that go beyond basic calculation of most parsimonious trees.

The Pleistocene epoch or Ice Age, an extended period of advancing and retreating ice sheets, is characterized by striking climatic oscillations and sea level fluctuations.

Marine biogeography, the study of the spatial distribution of organisms in the world's oceans, is one of the most fascinating branches of oceanography.

Invasion biology has many hypotheses, but it is largely unknown whether they are backed up by empirical evidence.

We are currently facing the sixth mass extinction of species in the history of life on Earth, biologists claim-the first one caused by humans.

Morphological studies of Echinoderms with phylogenetic analyses allows for testing of detailed and far-reaching evolutionary hypotheses.

Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history.

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.

Understanding the complex relationships between humans and the natural world is essential for achieving environmental sustainability and improving human well-being, yet many studies are unable to reveal complex interactions and hidden trends.

This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes.

From the Foreword: "e;Predator-prey interactions are among the most significant of all organism-organism interactions.

Virtual palaeontology, the use of interactive three-dimensional digital models as a supplement or alternative to physical specimens for scientific study and communication, is rapidly becoming important to advanced students and researchers.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves.

Since the release of the documentary Blackfish in 2013, millions around the world have focused on the plight of the orca, the most profitable and controversial display animal in history.

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

The epic story of why passenger pigeons became extinct and what that says about our current relationship with the natural world.

Demonstrates how Africa''s physical features, savannas and abundant grazers enabled frugivorous apes to become savanna-living hunters.

Originally published in 1995, The Selected Works of George McCready Price is the seventh volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021.

A multidisciplinary volume describing the effects of volcanism on the environment, past and present, for researchers and advanced students.

Celebrate our amazing world with this fascinating and entertaining book featuring wow-worthy animal facts and beautiful photos that will remind you of what we risk losing if we don't make changes to our environment.

The fossil record on Mesozoic mammals has expanded by orders of magnitude over the past quarter century.

Showcases the work of twenty leading paleoartists who expertly bring these extinct animals to life in exquisite detail.

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population.

A GUARDIAN NATURE BOOK OF THE YEARSeeking the beautiful, the breathtaking and the bizarre, award-winning writer Charlie Elder goes in search of Britain's rarest and most endangered animals.

Proclaims the enjoyment of teaching, studying and learning outdoors via the inspirational stories of some remarkable people.

A summary of thirty years of Siberian research, presenting evidence from the fossilised remains of herbivorous animals.

This volume brings together diverse contributions from leading archaeologists and paleoanthropologists, covering various spatial and temporal periods to distinguish convergent evolution from cultural transmission in order to see if we can discover ancient human populations.

La présence des hommes sur notre continent remonte à 1,8 million d’années.

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.

An up-to-date atlas of an important fossil and living group, with the Natural History Museum.

A synthesis of the environmental and climatic history of every major desert and desert margin, for researchers and advanced students.

A unique reconstruction of the paleobiology of fossil non-human primates and their key role in inferring evolutionary processes on earth.

Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct relatives of the elephant, roamed the land where skyscrapers now stand.

Originally published in 1995, The Antievolution Works of Arthur I.

This Element analyses the use of Instagram as a science education platform, using a paleontology-focused account as a case study.

A scientific excursion into folklore, zoology, and cryptozoology, this text highlights a field, often called a pseudoscience, which seriously considers the possible existence of hidden or unknown animals not recognised in conventional zoology.

Documents morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny, evolutionary changes, and interactions of 23 orders of insects from the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous faunas in Northern China This book showcases 23 different orders of insect fossils from the Mid Mesozoic period (165 to 125 Ma) that were discovered in Northeastern China.

Cenozoic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of the Niger Delta is available just as exploration and production activities are moving into the little known deep water terrain of the Niger Delta.

The first book of its kind in two decades, illustrating how the remains of animals are studied and analyzed.

Stronghold is Tucker Malarkey s enthralling account of an unlikely visionary, Guido Rahr, and his crusade to protect the world s last bastion of wild salmon.