Paläontologie

This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals

With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of

How is it that we came to be here? The search for answers to that question has preoccupied

The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the

Easily distinguished by the horns and frills on their skulls, ceratopsians were one of the

Hadrosaurs—also known as duck-billed dinosaurs—are abundant in the fossil record. With

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously

In 1961, while mapping rock exposures along the Colville River in Alaska, an oil company

South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos,

This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the

During the Early Cretaceous, lakes, meandering streams, and flood plains covered the

Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter's series on the major dinosaur types. As with his

In Pursuit of Early Mammals presents the history of the mammals that lived during the

The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and