Comments on: Book review – Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils

By: Book review – Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:40:14 +0000

[…] the most robust support, bringing together many independent lines of evidence such as biomechanics, trace fossils, isotope data, tooth microwear analysis, stomach contents, and coprolites. Even here, though, such […]

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By: Book review – A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:24:13 +0000

[…] the evolution of feathers or the morphological adaptations to different diets), he also covers the wonderful research on trace fossils such as fossil trackways or coprolites, and research that reconstructs behaviour. […]

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By: Book review – An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:25:14 +0000

[…] and parcel of palaeontology since the start. Also covered are the vegetation of the Mesozoic and trace fossil evidence of diets such as gastroliths and coprolites. Second is the basic biology of bones, teeth, and […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:50:27 +0000

[…] Locked in Time, also illustrated by Bob Nicholls, featured 50 vignettes of famous fossils, while Dinosaurs Without Bones was a chunky pop-science book. In Dinosaur Behavior, Benton takes the reader through five main […]

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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 09:39:02 +0000

[…] and fossilised. I have reviewed and 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 […]

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By: Book review – Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 11:50:50 +0000

[…] isotopes can reveal past diets, while oxygen isotopes are useful for reconstructing past climate. Trace fossils can reveal past behaviour and Smith discusses unusual examples. The spores of Sporormiella fungi […]

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By: Book review – The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath Our Feet | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:45:16 +0000

[…] fossil traces of behaviour such as footprints, something about which he wrote previously in Dinosaurs Without Bones. Burrows are another kind of trace fossil. After a short introduction into the history of humans […]

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

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:40:48 +0000

[…] the first popular science book on behaviour revealed by the fossil record. Anthony J. Martin wrote Dinosaurs Without Bones in 2014, focusing on ichnology, the study of trace fossils such as fossil footprints, scratch […]

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