Subject archive: palaeontology

Below is a list of all book reviews under the subject heading of palaeontology published to date in reverse chronological order. Click here to return to the subject menu or click here to return to the list of all reviews.

  1. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Third Edition)
  2. On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurs, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight
  3. Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know
  4. The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don’t Know, What We Can, and What We’ll Never Know
  5. Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould
  6. A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils
  7. Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter
  8. The Trilobite Collector’s Guide
  9. Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
  10. An Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Feeding Biology
  11. Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide
  12. Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
  13. Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
  14. The Age of Mammals: Nature, Development, & Paleontology in the Long Nineteenth Century
  15. The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
  16. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs & More
  17. Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art
  18. Dinosaurs – 10 Things You Should Know: 230 Million Years for People Short on Time
  19. Travels with Trilobites: Adventures in the Paleozoic
  20. Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution
  21. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs
  22. Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
  23. The Earth – A Biography of Life: The Story of Life on Our Planet through 47 Incredible Organisms
  24. The Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
  25. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
  26. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
  27. Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
  28. The Sloth Lemur’s Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present
  29. Otherlands: A World in the Making
  30. Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life
  31. Paleontology: An Illustrated History
  32. Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs: Using Art and Science to Bring the Past to Life
  33. Mammalian Paleoecology: Using the Past to Study the Present
  34. Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore
  35. Fossilization: Understanding the Material Nature of Ancient Plants and Animals
  36. A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist
  37. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
  38. Dinosaurs Without Bones: Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
  39. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
  40. Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Second Edition)
  41. Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
  42. Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben
  43. Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects
  44. On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins
  45. Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory
  46. Oceans of Kansas: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Second Edition)
  47. Visions of Lost Worlds: The Paleoart of Jay Matternes
  48. The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries: Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them
  49. Assembling the Dinosaur: Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle
  50. American Dinosaur Abroad: A Cultural History of Carnegie’s Plaster Diplodocus
  51. The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
  52. The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History
  53. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
  54. End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
  55. King of the Dinosaur Hunters: The Life of John Bell Hatcher and the Discoveries that Shaped Paleontology
  56. Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
  57. The Palaeoartist’s Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art
  58. The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy
  59. Land Bridges: Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections
  60. Earth History and Palaeogeography
  61. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals
  62. Too Big to Walk: The New Science of Dinosaurs
  63. The Oceans: A Deep History
  64. Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
  65. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World
  66. Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods
  67. Dinosaur Art 2: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart
  68. Patrons of Paleontology: How Government Support Shaped a Science
  69. Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, 1830-1980
  70. Cataclysms: A New Geology for the Twenty-First Century
  71. The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions
  72. Discovering the Mammoth: A Tale of Giants, Unicorns, Ivory, and the Birth of a New Science