Paläontologie 06

Neptune's Ark: From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas

Autor: David Rains Wallace
Illustrator: Ken Kirkland

Life on Our Planet: Accompanies the Landmark Netflix Series

Autor: Dr. Tom Fletcher

Dänemark: Fossile Schätze zwischen Nordjütland und Limfjord

Herausgeber: Redaktion Fossilien

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems

Autoren: Paul Selden, John (School of Earth Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences The University of Manchester UK) Nudds

Dinosaurier aus der Kreidezeit (Tierposter-Box)

Übersetzer: F W Welter-Schultes

MESSEL - Ein fossiles Tropenökosystem (Senckenberg-Buch)

Herausgeber: Stephan F. K. Schaal, Krister T. Smith, Jörg Habersetzer

Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

Autoren: Daniel Loxton, Donald R. Prothero, Michael Shermer

The Palaeoartist's Handbook: Recreating Prehistoric Animals in Art

Autor: Mark P. Witton

T. rex and the Crater of Doom (Princeton Science Library)

Walter Alvarez

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (MacSci)

Shelley Emling

Wonderful Life: Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

Stephen Jay Gould

Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled and analysed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in < I> Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.

Burgess Shale animals have been called "a palaeontological Rorschach test", and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of < I> Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in < I> Crucible of Creation. < I> Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent-as in the movie < I> It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title-has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's < I> Rare Earth hypothesis. And Gould's loving, detailed exposition of the labour it took to understand the Burgess Shale remains one of the best explanations of scientific work around. < I>-Mary Ellen Curtin

Feuersteine, Hühnergötter

Rolf Reinicke

Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey (World Geomorphological Landscapes)

Karl A. v. Zittel: Grundzüge der Paläontologie / Vertebrata

Karl A. v. Zittel

The Art of the Dinosaur: Illustrations by the Top Paleoartists in the World

Kazuo Terakado

Messel unter der Lupe: Begleitheft zur Ausstellung im Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt ab 07. Juli 2005

Die Geologie des Erzgebirges

Ulrich Sebastian

Die Eiszeiten: Naturgeschichte und Menschheitsgeschichte

Hansjürgen Müller-Beck