Mining the most recent paleontological advances, a paleobiologist recreates sixteen extinct worlds, rendered with a novelist's eye for detail and drama, showing up close the intricate relationships of these ancient worlds. In this tour-de-force exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the brilliant, award-winning paleobiologist Thomas Halliday takes us from the savannahs of Pliocene Kenya, to the salty canyons of the Niocene Mediterranean, to...

The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.

"Packed with tips, tricks, and helpful maps, this is the ultimate handbook for dinosaur fans who want to know what life on Earth was really like when dinos ruled."--

This book is more than just a challenging puzzle book it's also a fascinating look at life on Earth millions of years ago. Each beautifully illustrated double-page spread covers a different period of prehistoric time and is crammed full of creatures and plants for you to find.

"Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large...

Surveying Natural Populations is a user-friendly primer to the essential survey methodologies of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, integrating the intuitive approach of the field researcher with the rational analytical tools of the statistician. The chapters guide the uninitiated step by step through such topics as estimating population densities, determining adequate sample sizes, estimating the relative abundance of species, and measuring...