Comments on: Book review – Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy

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

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:44:35 +0000

[…] of flight covered in On the Wing and has read up on the literature, mentioning, for instance, the quadrupedal launching model for pterosaurs that Alexander left out. However, he omits other ideas, for instance, how flight in insects might […]

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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 12:44:26 +0000

[…] using their forearms to catapult themselves into the air from a standing start. Mark Witton’s Pterosaurs, published two years earlier in 2013, reviewed the idea (originally published in a 2008 paper), but […]

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

Wed, 03 May 2023 14:18:06 +0000

[…] do the two books compare? When I reviewed Paul’s pterosaur guide, I read it back-to-back with Mark Witton’s pterosaur book. For this comparison, many of the same observations apply. Overall, Paul provides a broader range […]

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By: Book review – Dinosaur Art 2: The Cutting Edge of Paleoart | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:07:27 +0000

[…] The Origin of Birds, whereas Mark Witton authored and illustrated Princeton’s recent Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy, both of which I have on my shelf here. Especially Mark Witton’s chapter, where he can […]

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By: Book review – The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:04:48 +0000

[…] Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians for crocodiles and alligators, Mark Witton’s excellent Pterosaurs, and, for dinosaurs, The Sauropod Dinosaurs, The Dinosauria, or The Complete […]

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By: Book review – Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:51:53 +0000

[…] cynodonts, and early reptiles in the form of erythrosuchids. We also get Witton’s speciality, pterosaurs, a beautiful depiction of the last land whales, and an aquatic sloth. Even when painting a staple […]

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By: Book review – Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 15:43:31 +0000

[…] launch sequence of a eupterodactyloid pterosaur on page 82 seems closely informed by the work of Witton and others. The depiction of a male Europasaurus inflating a throat pouch – not unlike a male […]

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By: Book review – The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 08 Sep 2022 10:41:16 +0000

[…] is the second of a two-part dive into the world of pterosaurs, following on from my review of Mark Witton’s 2013 book Pterosaurs. Almost a decade later, the well-known independent palaeontologist and palaeoartist Gregory S. Paul […]

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