Dinosaur and Fossil Books

This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated...

A lavishly illustrated guide to discovering dinosaur tracks and traces in the American Southwest. The author, who discovered most of the track sites, takes the reader back in time to a place paleontologists have described as the Jurassic Park of...

By: A. L. Titus One of the most important functions of paleontology in the earth sciences is time correlation of rock strata using taxonomic analysis of fossils in different regions. Comparisons of certain species’ similarities between regions frequently allows for...

This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time...

A visual and informative guide to fossils, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitness Books format. Get up close and personal and be an eyewitness to our prehistoric world through fossilized shells, skulls, teeth, plants, and, of course,...

By Riley Black Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything...

By: James Kavanagh & Raymond Leung An introduction to familiar species of dinosaurs, their habits and habitats. This waterproof pocket guide introduces the basics on dinosaur anatomy, geologic time, and the different types of dinosaurs found around the world. Great...

The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the location of one of the best-known terrestrial records for the late Cretaceous. A major effort in the new century has documented over 2,000 new vertebrate fossil sites, provided new radiometric dates,...

By: David D. Gillette Seismosaurus: The Earth Shaker is a richly illustrated telling of the trials of triumphs of the discovery and excavation of Seismosaurus hallorum, the longest dinosaur yet known - and possibly the largest land animal ever to...

What part has North America played in the history of life? How did our continent come to be, and how has it changed over time? What was it like during past ages? What were the climate and geography like, and...

Text by: Riley Black Illustrations by: Riccardo Frapicinni In Dinosaurs: Profiles from a Lost World, Riley Black, a fossil expert and consultant to the Jurassic World movie franchise, provides all the details about 72 specific dinosaurs. Riccardo Frapicinni's exceptional artwork allows...