Comments on: Book review – The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs

By: Book review – The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:51:52 +0000

[…] together the largest such collection in print. I have previously reviewed his companion volumes on pterosaurs and extinct marine reptiles, which is coming at it somewhat the wrong way around. His tenure with […]

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By: Book review – Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:44:36 +0000

[…] flowing over the wing, which lowers air pressure, which increases lift. However, both Alexander and Gregory Paul point out that this is an incomplete and even misleading explanation. If I have understood these […]

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By: Book review – On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:44:24 +0000

[…] prefers it because physics (i.e. gravity) works with you rather than against you. For both bats and pterosaurs early transitional fossils are missing, complicating the story. The consensus is that bats evolved […]

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By: Book review – The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 03 May 2023 14:18:04 +0000

[…] two earlier books on dinosaurs (2016) and pterosaurs (2022), this book concludes Paul’s informal trilogy of field guides covering the major Mesozoic […]

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By: Book review – Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:52:25 +0000

[…] though. Thus, with Princeton University Press having recently published Gregory S. Paul’s The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs, I decided to finally take Mark Witton’s 2013 book Pterosaurs off the shelf and read them […]

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