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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

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By: Donald R Prothero(Author), Mary Persis Williams(Illustrator)
240 pages, 303 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals
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  • The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals ISBN: 9780691156828 Hardback Oct 2016 In stock
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After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures.

A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals – what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-colour reconstructions of these beasts – many never before depicted – along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world.

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Donald R. Prothero is research associate in vertebrate paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and professor emeritus of geology at Occidental College. His many books include Greenhouse of the Dinosaurs: Evolution, Extinction, and the Future of Our Planet, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters, and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals.

Popular Science
By: Donald R Prothero(Author), Mary Persis Williams(Illustrator)
240 pages, 303 colour & b/w photos and colour & b/w illustrations
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"Up-to-date, comprehensive, and very readable. Prothero is a renowned expert in this field, with decades of experience working on diverse groups of prehistoric mammals. He clearly knows his subject well and skillfully conveys this knowledge to readers."
– Spencer G. Lucas, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science

"Prothero knows his fossil mammals."
– Christine M. Janis, coauthor of Vertebrate Life

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