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Book A Feather in Amber from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey

Download or read book A Feather in Amber from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey written by David A. Grimaldi and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Feather in Cretaceous Amber from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey

Download or read book A Feather in Cretaceous Amber from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey written by David A. Grimaldi and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rise of the Dragon

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  • Author : Henry Gee
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2001-11
  • ISBN : 9780226284903
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Rise of the Dragon written by Henry Gee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature.Rise of the Dragon gathers together sixteen of these original reports, some augmented with commentaries originally published in Nature's "News and Views" section. Perhaps the best known of these new Chinese fossils are the famous feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning Province, which may help end one of the most intense debates in paleontology—whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. But other finds have been just as spectacular, such as the minutely preserved (to the cellular level) animal embryos of the 670 million-year-old Duoshantuo phosphorites, or the world's oldest known fish, from the Chengjiang formation in southwestern Yunnan Province. Rise of the Dragon makes descriptions and detailed discussions of these important finds available in one convenient volume for paleontologists and serious fossil fans.

Book Fossil Behavior Compendium

Download or read book Fossil Behavior Compendium written by Arthur J. Boucot and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who provides additional expertise and knowledge on protozoans and bacteria as applied to disease. Together, they make the Fossil Behavior Compendium wider in scope, covering all relevant ani

Book Mesozoic Birds

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  • Author : Luis M. Chiappe
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2002-12-05
  • ISBN : 0520200942
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Mesozoic Birds written by Luis M. Chiappe and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-12-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mesozoic Birds is the first book to bring together world-renowned specialists on fossil birds and their importance to avian origins and, more importantly, it stresses a unified approach (cladistics) and presents the most anatomically detailed analyses available to date. No other study or collection of studies has ever done so much. How could the project not be welcomed by its audience of paleontologists, ornithologists, and evolutionary biologists!"—David Weishampel, editor of The Dinosauria "This is the first comprehensive volume dedicated to the relationships and evolution of the birds that lived during the Age of Dinosaurs. Its wealth of information and its diversity of viewpoints will ensure that this indispensable volume is used and discussed for many years to come."—Kevin Padian, University of California, Berkeley

Book The Rise of Birds

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  • Author : Sankar Chatterjee
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 142141614X
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book The Rise of Birds written by Sankar Chatterjee and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive account of the origin of ancient and modern birds—the "living dinosaurs." A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in our understanding of the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual, a bird-like creature that lived long, long ago in the age of dinosaurs. He called it Protoavis, and the animal that owned these bones quickly became a contender for the title of "oldest known bird." In 1997, Chatterjee published his findings in the first edition of The Rise of Birds. Since then Chatterjee and his colleagues have searched the world for more transitional bird fossils. And they have found them. This second edition of The Rise of Birds brings together a treasure trove of fossils that tell us far more about the evolution of birds than we once dreamed possible. With no blind allegiance to what he once thought he knew, Chatterjee devours the new evidence and lays out the most compelling version of the birth and evolution of the avian form ever attempted. He takes us from Texas to Spain, China, Mongolia, Madagascar, Australia, Antarctica, and Argentina. He shows how, in the "Cretaceous Pompeii" of China, he was able to reconstruct the origin and evolution of flight of early birds from the feathered dinosaurs that lay among thousands of other amazing fossils. Chatterjee takes us to where long-hidden bird fossils dwell. His compelling, occasionally controversial, revelations—accompanied by spectacular illustrations—are a must-read for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of "the feathered dinosaurs," from vertebrate paleontologists and ornithologists to naturalists and birders.

Book Transactions of the American Entomological Society

Download or read book Transactions of the American Entomological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Download or read book Annals of the Entomological Society of America written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Breviora

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Breviora written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences

Download or read book Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Neues Jahrbuch f  r Geologie und Pal  ontologie

Download or read book Neues Jahrbuch f r Geologie und Pal ontologie written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discovering Dinosaurs

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  • Author : Mark Norell
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520225015
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Discovering Dinosaurs written by Mark Norell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the evolutionary relationship of dinosaurs, answers fifty specific questions about them, profiles forty-one specimens, and describes six expeditions of the American Museum of Natural History.

Book The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism

Download or read book The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism written by Kenneth De Baets and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various parasite groups, in order to provide a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism as part of biodiversity. This is in contrast to most contributions by parasitologists in the literature that focus on circular lines of evidence, such as extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach is narrow and fails to provide the wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume two focuses on the importance of direct host associations and host responses such as pathologies in the geological record to constrain the role of antagonistic interactions in driving the diversification and extinction of parasite-host relationships and disease. To better understand the impact on host populations, emphasis is given to arthropods, colonial metazoans, echinoderms, mollusks and vertebrates as hosts. In addition, novel techniques used to constrain interactions in deep time are discussed ranging from chemical and microscopic investigations of host remains, such as blood and coprolites, to the statistical inference of lateral transfer of transposons and host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics using molecular divergence time estimation.

Book Dinosaur Facts and Figures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rubén Molina-Pérez
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-25
  • ISBN : 0691180318
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Dinosaur Facts and Figures written by Rubén Molina-Pérez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated record book of theropod facts and figures--from the biggest to the fastest to the smartest. This compendium features more than 3,000 records, covers some 750 theropod species, and includes a wealth of illustrations ranging from diagrams and technical drawings to full-color reconstructions of specimens.

Book Avian Anatomy  Integument

Download or read book Avian Anatomy Integument written by Alfred Martin Lucas and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: