Comments on: Book review – The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet

By: Book review – Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 09:39:04 +0000

[…] enjoyed his two previous popular science books on this topic, Dinosaurs Without Bones (2015) and The Evolution Underground (2017), which were both published by Pegasus Books. Life Sculpted, published by the University of […]

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By: Book review – Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Jun 2021 09:00:56 +0000

[…] from behind tusks and a turtle-like beak. One particularly successful group, possibly because it dug burrows, was Lystrosaurus, a genus that in the early Triassic made up 90% of all vertebrates. A related […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:13:43 +0000

[…] might indeed ask, why review this book now? Way back in 2018 I reviewed Martin’s 2017 book The Evolution Underground on the evolutionary history of burrowing behaviour and was suitably impressed. I vowed to search […]

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By: Book review – Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 26 May 2021 11:35:30 +0000

[…] or the tall spiral structures once nicknamed Devil’s corkscrews by flummoxed fossil hunters that turned out to be burrows, some even containing fossilised beavers. There is violence: the skulls of two fighting male […]

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By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 04 Feb 2021 12:48:59 +0000

[…] some 299 to 252 million years ago. This includes the very successful Lystrosaurus that dug burrows, which is one strategy to deal with temperature fluctuations. However, it was the late-Permian mass extinction that really kick-started endothermy. As the […]

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By: Book review – Fires of Life: Endothermy in Birds and Mammals | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:13:59 +0000

[…] dug burrows, which is one strategy to deal with temperature fluctuations (see also my review of The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet). However, it was the late-Permian mass extinction that really kick-started endothermy (see also my […]

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By: Book review – Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 May 2019 09:27:06 +0000

[…] the deep evolutionary history of burrowing animals, writing of ants in particular (see my review of The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet for more on that). Hunt also considers the neurobiological basis to the powerful experience of […]

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By: Book review – The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 04 May 2018 09:03:53 +0000

[…] mass extinctions, but Brusatte can be equally evocative in his descriptions. As in Martin’s The Evolution Underground, Brusatte advances the idea that underground burrows were crucial to […]

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