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This volume fulfills a long-standing need of vertebrate paleontologists--whether amateurs attending their first excavation, or preparators and curators--for a book that describes and explains modern paleontological techniques and practice.The authors of this volume are all exceptional technicians in their fields and the book covers everything from field specimen collecting, through conservation methods, chemical preparation, molding, casting and painting, and mounting of vertebrate skeletons, to the final chapter devoted to the use of CT scans and X-ray methods. This book aims to describe modern preparatory techniques and skills that have usually only been passed down by example and demonstration, and that until now, have rarely been standardized or put down in print. ... Read more

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A true classic in the field of vertebrate paleontology!
Obviously there is a need for a new printing of this important book, or an updated version with the new data/techniques (along with the tried and true) available.I have used this book for many semesters (since 1995) instructing budding vertebrate paleontologists in the pros and cons of taking care of fossils (primarily fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals...with brief info on other fossilized material and creatures, some of which are not mentioned in this book).All students have enjoyed this book and use it religiously in seeking references, gathering information on the proper techniques to use in specific conditions, and so much more.Some chapters cover their respective subject in a limited review, while others are appropriately covered to give the reader an accurate explanation/direction to follow.I HIGHLY recommend this book to all vertebrate paleontologists who want to pursue fieldwork and lab work over that of becoming a publishing academian...although there is room for publishing information on this subject as well - and much needed at that.Excellent resource, reference, and teaching book.Unfortunately there is no volume 2 as previously planned - let's hope an updated version comes available in the near future.It will be well worth the wait even though this book is a great start.

Much needed textbook for Paleontology courses
This book fills a void often encountered in many textbooks in college paleontology courses, whether undergrad or postgrad.I have found it most useful in my field explorations as well as lab techniques and even in many beginning courses. This book rates more than 5 stars and I can't wait for Volume II to come out. I will be on the wish list for it. ... Read more

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Excellent Research and Analysis

How did we arrive at this point? Why has evolutionary thought so dominated our academic, scientific, mass media and even religious establishments? Henry Morris, Bolton Davidheiser and many others have written on this problem. Several years ago a professor of history at Texas Tech University added another piece to this puzzle. A very important piece. Ronald Rainger had access to the archives of the American Museum of Natural History, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia Universities and other important institutional repositories. The result is a highly researched, readable and very important book.

Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) had a significant impact on the public's perception and acceptance of evolutionary thought during the first third of the 20th Century. From his work at Princeton and Columbia Universities he developed strategies that bore their greatest fruit when he became curator and president of New York City's American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).

Osborn was a very capable organizer, networker and self-promoter. He took advantage of his high placed social standing and learned from the mistakes of others. Two prominent paleontologists of the previous generation Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Marsh both exhausted their personal fortunes on the expensive business of fossil excavation and preparation. While Osborn used some of his own money, he had a circle of very wealthy friends who contributed significant financial support, to finance museum projects. Osborn organized his departments and personnel effectively to promote his passionate interests in vertebrate paleontology in the realms of ancient mammals (his scientific speciality), dinosaurs or ancient man.

What was Osborn's "agenda for antiquity?" At Princeton in the late 1880s Osborn became a neo-Lamarckian (p. 39) as reflected in his writing. He later developed his own non-Darwinian view of evolution. Osborn advanced a type of theistic evolution, "Any random, discontinuous change, indeed any change that was not fully predictable, was equivalent to chance or accident, events that occurred without reason, plan, or purpose. Such phenomena could have not place in Osborn's interpretation of evolution or in his conception of nature, where everything operated strictly according to law and under the guidance of God"(p. 139). Rainger also comments on Osborn, "For him the laws of evolution demonstrated the presence and handiwork of the creator every bit as much as the Bible. On those grounds he steadfastly opposed William Jennings Bryan and the fundamentalists who claimed that evolution undermined religion" (p. 131).

Osborn was admonished by his parents and other mentors to use his influence for society'sbetterment. Through the exhibits at the AMNH Osborn advocated his agenda.He believe the modern educational system produced individuals who "had become domesticated and effeminate, characteristics that Osborn, as a part of the male power structure, considered degenerate" (p. 119). Rainger explains, "But for Osborn the immersion in nature was a personal confrontation that led to self-fulfillment. Osborn, perhaps influenced by the views of his good friend [Theodore] Roosevelt, glorified the outdoor study of nature as a transforming experience that could bring social and spiritual redemption"( p. 120).

The museum exhibits especially on the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon cultures exemplified this "return to nature " ideology. Rainger emphasizes that Osborn's views presented through the museum exhibits advocated the preservation of the "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" power elite. Osborn was a part of that elite. To buttress this idea the author also explores Osborn's participation in the eugenic and anti-immigration movements. The 1921 International Eugenics Congress was held at the museum. The museum's Hall of Man especially embodied Osborn's ideas. "The Hall of Man was more than an exhibit of paleoanthropological material. It reflected Osborn's belief that only by preserving nature and racial purity, particularly the purity of the English, Scots, and Scandinavians most closely related to the Nordic tribes of Neolithic times, could mankind halt the rapidly accelerating decline toward racial suicide and extinction" (p. 177). Such racist attitudes naturally led Osborn to support the "racial hygiene" policies of Mussolini and Hitler (p. 150). He advocated a program of "positive eugenics" that meant there should be greater reproduction by "the fit." The "fit" being primarily New England Nordic racial stock.He was a powerful supporter of the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 which restricted immigration (p. 149).

Osborn also was involved in developing a theoretical basis for vertebrate paleontology. He did this by mentoring and supporting the work of first rank paleontogists such as William King Gregory and William Diller Matthew.Osborn, through the work of these and other associates, helped lay a biostratigraphy and correlation framework for how the fossil record has been interpreted worldwide (pp. 185-188). It is worth noting that Gregory, Matthew and most other paleontologists disagreed with Osborn's version of evolution. They moved toward a more Darwinian approach (p. 206). That Osborn provided the institutional environment for these men to work is perhaps his most enduring legacy to vertebrate paleontology and evolutionary thought (pp. 242-48).

From the creationist's viewpoint some weaknesses mar Rainger's rich and fascinating research. One, he gives little information concerning Osborn's early rejection and later support of the Piltdown Man hoax(p. 309). He is silent on Osborn's promotion of Nebraska Man. Perhaps more important--was there any childhood acceptance of traditional Christian faith and it's later reject by Osborn? Osborn was raised in a very wealthy, Bible-believing Presbyterian home (p. 25). Later in life he maintained membership in St. George's Episcopal Church (p. 46). How did Osborn cope with the person of Jesus Christ as revealed in the New Testament?

Rainger implies that very early on Osborn accommodated Christianity with evolutionary thinking(pp. 26-27) through the influence of Princeton president, James McCosh.Any real vestiges of Biblical Christianity quickly fell by the wayside in Osborn's mind. His new faith revealed a non-personal God who worked through evolution to accomplish his purposes. This was a tame god that was used to serve Osborn's ends of maintaining the status quo for his moneyed, social and ethnic elite. Osborn dedicated his life to vigorously advocating this new religion.

Osborn's ideas and the ideas of his assistants significantly influenced the public's knowledge of fossils and acceptance of evolution. Indeed it was Osborn's life mission to influence society's decision makers as well as the masses with his evolutionary gospel. It was through his influence that generations of school agers were exposed to the familiar orthogenetic chart of horse evolution (p. 165) and the magnificent paintings by Charles R. Knight (p. 89) that cemented the mythical notion that dinosaurs had ruled the earth for 150 million years. Besides the AMNH exhibits Osborn promoted himself and his agenda unceasingly through a multitude of scientific papers, popular press articles, books, press releases and highly publicized journeys to fossils sites in Europe, Mongolia and elsewhere.

One of the primary tasks of creation science is to present a viable alternative to the ideas that Osborn and his ideological descendants have successfully propagated over the last century.

This book has numerous illustrations, extensive endnotes, bibliography and index. ... Read more

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Illustrated with hundreds of photographs and drawings, this authoritative yet readable book describes the fossil vertebrates found in Florida--many unique to the state--and summarizes more than 100 years of paleontological discoveries and research. All types of vertebrates are covered, including sharks and other fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The book includes a comprehensive list of every verified fossil species ever collected in Florida. ... Read more

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Much-needed reference
This is an excellent book for Florida fossils.It is profusely illustrated and, though academically thorough, is easy for the layman to use and appreciate.It is the best reference for the fossil vertebrate fauna of Florida I've seen.The only thing I would change is to see a more detailed index. ... Read more

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This path breaking volume provides further evidence that we are in the midst of a new golden age' of dinosaur paleontology. It presents important new research on the vertebrate life of the Mesozoic as reported by 45 of the leading workers in the field.Organized into sections on theropods, sauropods, ornithischians, dinosaurian fauna, paleopathologies, and ichnology, these original papers represent a broad cross section of current research.Studies of Charles Sternberg and dinosaurs in fiction conclude the book. ... Read more

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Advanced articles on dinosaurs
Despite the deceptively simple title, this book only covers dinosaurs (although there is a mention of mammal tracks in the chapters on ichnology). Further, the 33 individual papers (except for the last one on Dinosaurs in Fiction) are for advanced students and professionals. It would behoove you to have already read A.S. Romer's Osteology of the Reptiles and The Vertebrate Body as well as E.H. Colbert's Evolution of the Vertebrates and Michael Benton's Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution before embarking on this book.
Still, if you already have the equivalent of a good undergraduate grounding in the field of paleontology, you will find this book a fascinating read. Well worth the money as long as you know what you're getting.

Mesozoic Vertebrate Life
Mesozoic Vertebrate Life Edited By Darren H. Tanke and Kenneth Carpenter with Michael W. Skrepnick as the art editor is a new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie is an excellent book... a book for the advanced dinosaur enthusiast.This book goes into detail about Theropods, Sauropods, Ornithischians, Dinosaurian Faunas, Paleopathologies, Ichnology, and Dinosaurs and Human History.

This book has a whole host of contributors(46 to be exact).All of the men and women are tops in their respective fields, so this book is like reading a medical book with all of the resplendent medical terms. Ah, but doen't give up, there are some very excellent drawings that help explain what the author is talking about, so your not left in the dust choking on the dust.I've noticed that the best dinosaur book on detail are written in this style where a collaboration of many authors that are expert and on the cutting edge with break throughs are written this way.

I would say this, the fossil record is telling the finder something... the finder has to study what he has found and make a determination and conclusion as to what he has found.All of this takes education, trial and error, and luck.So, you have the best guesses written here... things may stay as they were presented or they may change with insight, only time will tell.

If you are more than just a casual dinosaur devotee, than this is the book for you.It is light on the early Mesozoic, but it makes up for it in the late Mesozoic.The book is mainly composed of North American Mesozoic, but there is representation in China, and South America included.

There are excellent references included with there abstracts.This s not a book for children, this is an advanced case study of the dinosaura of the Mesozoic time. Those wishing for a book that compares jaws and endocarnial anatomy will relish this book. There is even an abstract on "The Impact of Sedimentology on Vertebrate Track Studies" which I found fascinating.I didn't know they went to that much detail, in models of track formation show clearly that the layer upon which the foot descends retains the most information of the impactor.Stresses are distributed radially away from the impact site and decrease exponentially with distance.

If you want detail this book has it.There are seven sections as I mentioned above, and they are divided into 33 chapters.This took a while to read and digest the information.This would make an interesting additions to a home library.

By "Mesozic Life" you mean "dinosaurs"...
The title is misleading. If you're looking for information on pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, or Mesozoic crocs, this book probably isn't for you. However, if you want to get the skinny on Tyrannosaurus arm movement and what they were used for (yeah, amazing, eh?), new dinosaurs, and generally good information on dinosaurs, this is a good book to consider. Heavy on the second half of the Mesozoic, the book none the less manages to have a good variety of papers about various aspects of dinosaurian paleobiology, phylogeny, and behavior. A great volume. ... Read more

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In Quest of Great Lakes Ice-Age Vertebrates is an account of the ice-age fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals in the regions surrounding the Great Lakes. Written for a general audience, the book defines concepts and terms and discusses how the last Ice Age, Pleistocene Epoch, affected our physical and biological world. Holman describes the methods and tools used in the collection of vertebrate fossils and includes details of each animal’s structure, habits, habitats, and ecological importance.The heart of the book contains a species by species account of the Pleistocene vertebrates of the region, followed by an examination of the compelling problems of the Pleistocene relative to faunal interpretations, including overall ecological makeup of the fauna, vertebrate range adjustment that occurred in the region, Pleistocene extinction effects on the animals, the aftermath of the Ice Age, and a look at what the future may hold for the region. ... Read more

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An investigation of the evolution of backboned animals (vertebrates), now appearing in its Fourth Edition. Traces the history of each major vertebrate group from its origin to its extinction or the emergence of the next, more advanced group. Contains drawings and illustrations depicting lifelike renderings of these creatures of the past. ... Read more

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This book presents current knowledge of the early vertebrates--mainly fish, but including some terrestrial creatures--which lived about 250 to 470 million years ago.The work focuses on anatomical and phylogenetic questions, but includes information on fossil discovery and preparation, as well as the analysis of the characteristics from which their relationships may be reconstructed.The author addresses both new and old problems in the evolution of certain anatomical details and deals briefly with the animals' way of life, extinction, and former distribution.The book is the first in its field to use a cladistic approach. For each major vertebrate group, the reader will find a diagram of relationships, or cladogram, with a selection of characters at each node, and a succinct phylogenetic classification. ... Read more

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The first vertebrates
Although this reference is a very detailed treatise on early vertebrate fossils, it may prove useful to the general reader trying to make sense of early vertebrate evolution because it does not reproduce photographs of the early fossils, but instead takes artistic license to illustrate them in reconstructed forms. The earliest known fossil vertebrate is Sacabambaspis/Arandaspis found in Bolivia/Australia and 470 million years old - head armor, jawless, mouth containing bony parts for scraping the seabottom, lateral eyes, two pineal eyes, gill openings, and only a median and caudal fins. At the end of Ordovician there was a period of glaciation, and then afterwards in the early Silurian there is a large appearance of both jawless and jawed fossil vertebrates - heterostracans (cephalaspids), galeaspids, thelodonts, acanthodians, shark relatives (chondrichthyans), placoderms (jawed & armored), and possibly bony fishes (osteichthyans). In the mid-Silurian tectonic plate movement created mountain ranges that subsequently eroded what became a red sandstone in many areas that were favorable to vertebrate life. In the Devonian fossils are found showing fish evolving into groups that would survive to the present, as well as tetrapods. In the Carboniferous it is found that the cartilaginous fishes and the ray-finned fishes greatly diversify, as well ferns and club-mosses are found around bays and lakes. After the Permian ended, the 'modern' vertebrate world appears in the Triassic and Jurassic - sharks, teleosts, modern amphibians, modern reptiles, birds and mammals. Lampreys, hagfishes, chimaeras, some ray-finned fish, coelacanths and lungfishes survive relatively unchanged from the emergence of the vertebrates in the Late Palaeozoic. The early vertebrate fossils, along with comparisons of extant vertebrates, are considered in detail. Origins of the vertebrate head and the tetrapod limb are then considered, followed by broader topics in evolution. ... Read more

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More than three hundred million years ago--a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared--vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod species. Michel Laurin uses paleontological, geological, physiological, and comparative anatomical data to describe this monumental event. He summarizes key concepts of modern paleontological research, including biological nomenclature, paleontological and molecular dating, and the methods used to infer phylogeny and character evolution. Along with a discussion of the evolutionary pressures that may have led vertebrates onto dry land, the book also shows how extant vertebrates yield clues about the conquest of land and how scientists uncover evolutionary history. ... Read more

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"In the last twenty years or so there has been an upsurge in the study of Palaeozoic fishes for solving geological problems, both in areas of biostratigraphy and biogeography. This has resulted in an explosion of data, much of it so new that it will take years for all the recent discoveries to be published. This book has resulted to fill the need to provide up-to-date summaries of global work in progress showing the application of both macroscopic and microscopic remains of Palaeozoic vertebrates to geological correlations, and to refinement of global palaeogeographic reconstructions."--from the Preface.

This book offers the first detailed treatment of palaeozoic vertebrates for use in correlations and in biogeographic studies. With thirteen chapters of systematic analysis of biostratigraphic and biogeographic data, it includes invaluable summaries of current research as well as new and significant contributions to the fields of geology and evolutionary biology. With charts and figures that show many of the important fossils discussed in the text, as well as stratigraphic, location, and taxonomic indexes, the book will interest palaeontologists, stratigraphers, and other earth scientists concerned with the early history of life on earth.

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This extensively illustrated volume brings together for the first time the results of new research on Arabian continental fossil vertebrates. With information on Arabian paleontology as well as stratigraphic, geological, isotopic, and paleomagnetic findings, the book also discusses the earliest evidence of the genus Homo in the region and the first dispersal of animals from Arabia into Africa and Asia. ... Read more

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Unique but pricey
Interesting overview of the subject, as long as you obtain it for a cheap price. The book discusses material that is little known outside of Africa and Europe, but lacks much depth. It almost felt like I was reading a college essay where the student triple-spaced the report to make it seem longer and more substantial. The book has been heavily discounted since its original publication, so if you pick it up cheap it's an interesting addition to a vertebrate paleo bookshelf. If you buy it full price you'll be disappointed. ... Read more

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Throughout history man has been discovering fossil bones. Our interpretations of these discoveries through the centuries provides an insight into the development of scientific knowledge. This book traces the history of vertebrate palaeontolgoy from the discoveries and interpretations of fossil bones by the Greeks and Romans and their role as evidence for the biblical flood through to the formulation of the synthetic theory of evolution after the First World War. The author shows how the pioneering work of Cuvier in the 19th century and the inspiration of Darwin and others led to modern theories of evolution. He goes on to look at the great palaeontological finds which resulted from the opening-up of the American West, the industrial exploitation of minerals in Europe and colonial expansion in Asia and Africa. ... Read more

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This study presents current data on vertebrate survival and extinction across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Montana. Nearly all the common taxa of reptiles (except dinosaurs), amphibians, and fish survived the end of the Cretaceous Period; extinctions were concentrated among rare groups and those found in near-shore habitats. The author concludes that ocean regression and climatic deterioration may explain these selective extinction patterns better than catastrophic hypotheses. ... Read more

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Before the six major continents were separated by vast seas, there existed the landmass of Gondwana (now Australia, South America, Antarctica, India, Africa, and New Zealand). This book presents the history of the vertebrate faunas of Gondwana, beginning with the origin of life, even before Gondwana coalesced, and moves through time as the continent shifted, along with its vertebrate life. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, drawings, and paintings, Wildlife of Gondwana is a major reference to life of the past. Originally published in Australia in 1993, this corrected and augmented edition contains new material on fossil discoveries in India. Amazon.com Review
From the late Paleozoic era to the early Mesozoic era, 350million to 140 million years before the present, the latter-daycontinents and subcontinents of Antarctica, India, Australia, Africa,and South America formed a single landmass, a southerly"supercontinent" that contemporary scientists call Gondwana. Thephysicist Alfred Wegener posited the existence of Gondwana as early as1912, but only in the 1960s was his theory of continental drift widelyaccepted. Since that time, considerable evidence has been gatheredabout Gondwana's ancient flora and fauna, much of it from Australia,which the authors of this handsomely illustrated volume deem a kind of"Noah's ark" of species found almost nowhere else.

Some of those animal types, such as the allosaurid dinosaurs and thelabyrinthodont amphibians, may have endured on Gondwana long afterthey went extinct on its northern-hemisphere counterpart; others, suchas the placental mammals and certapsian dinosaurs, may have developedon Gondwana.First published in 1992, this book offers a usefulintroduction to plate tectonics and other tenets of modern geology, aswell as a fine catalog of long-extinct creatures such as the sauropod,pterosaur, and iguanodont. The revised edition recounts recentdiscoveries from southern Africa, India, and Patagonia that augmentthe fossil record and correct earlier classificationschemes. --Gregory McNamee ... Read more

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Just started reading, but this is beautifully Illustrated
This book (revision of an earlier edition) was a nice surprise for someone who's a general reader and has gotten a little leery about buying the Indiana University Press Life of the Past Series. (Nothing against them, but for the money they usually charge I'd like something with less of the techno-babble that that so many of them are filled with; I understand that people have to write scientific papers, but why use titles that make them look like books for everyone?) This book is written for the general reader (without being dumbed down) and it is LOADED with clear, close-up, color photos of the fossils (too bad so few Australian fossils are dinosaurs), plus nice color graphics. Use the Amazon "Look Inside" to see the Table of Contents and samples of the color photos- it's not expensive for a book with so many good photos. I just started reading, but this seems to be a book that you can definitely skip to what interests you instead of reading straight through - a lot of fun.

Gondwana? No.Austrlaia? Yes.
This is a beautiful, well-written book with informative images and text.And deals almost exclusively with Australia, not Gondwana.Adding a few off-the-cuff references to other Gondwanan wildlife and paleontology does not give a comprehensive look at the full range of forms that would be found if this supercontinent was really looked at in detail--African Permian faunas, inverts from the Himalayas, South American mammal evolution in the Cenozoic.Australia is only one small part of the region (and for dinosaur lovers, this will be a big disappointment--no Argentinian giants here). I wouldn't dismiss this book, but it is certainly not what I expected (or was hoping for).

not what it seems
Warning: the title of this book is highly misleading. By its content, it should be called "Fossil Vertebrates of Australia." If it really covered the wildlife of Gondwana, it would include a great deal RE invertebrates and plants and would give much, much more space than it does to Africa, South America, and India. The critters on the cover, BTW, are Pleistocene Australian forms, and therefore not from Gondwana (the ancient southern supercontinent) at all.

The chief value of this volume lies in its highly inclusive selection of spectacularly fine and detailed photos of Australian vertebrate fossils, including one of the famous opalized plesiosaurs. Alas, though, there are only a handful of whole-body reconstructions, though those few are very good.

Another problem, endemic to coffee-table books of this kind, is inconsistency of labeling, terminology, and interpretation. The authors can't decide, for example, whether sloths, armadillos and so on are to be called Edentates and placed among the placentals, or should be taken out of the placentals and called Paratheria. Similar inconsistency plagues the coloring of some geological maps, and even the definition of "teleost."

very nice book on Australasian fossils
For those interested in photographs of fossils found mainly in Australia from the Paleozoic through the Cenozoic (along with a few from Antarctica), then this is the book for you. Crisp high quality photographs of vertebrate fossils are provided, everything from the hindlimb of Dromornis stirtoni to the top view of the skull of Leaellynasaura to numerous fish fossils. The primary focus appears to be on dinosaurs, though extinct mammals are well covered as well.

Accompanying the photographs are short articles detailing various aspects of the region's history, such as extinction of Australia's Quarternary megafauna, the floodplain faunas of the Great Southern Rift Valley of the Early Cretaceous, the role the increasing aridity of post-Miocene Australia played in evolution,and the fauna of the Gogo Reef. Longer articles deal with the basic geologic and paleontological history of Gondwana, the history of research there, and the role of Gondwana in the global context of worldwide evolution of animals. Numerous photographs of wildlife today accompany discussions of the unique biogeography of Australia and the role isolation has played in the development of the organisms there.

A beautiful coffee-table book, I hold from giving five stars for two reasons. One, the price is fairly high; though a really nice book to own, it may be out of the price range for many, or at least more than they really want to pay. Two, though the numerous photographs of fossils in the book are really high quality, I think the book could have benefitted from more artists' illustrations of the animals and their environment in life. Though a few nice ones are included, several more could have really added to the value and popular appeal of this book. Many of the extinct fauna of Gondwana are bizarre and fascinating, particularly some of the extinct marsupial megafauna, and it would have been nice to see more illustrations of how they looked in life. All in all though a really well done book.

another time-trip to the past
I compared the book Walking with Dinosaurs to a time machine. Well, here's another one. Wildlife of Gondwana is composed with love and devotion to the field of Paleontology. It is a momentous feeling to relive the evolution ofour planet's surface leading to Gondwana and Laurasia and stunning to watchhow vertebrate species diverged to fill all the ecological niches of theancient supercontinent Gondwana. A must for the dino lovers but also givesa fresh insight to other vertebrates that were contemporaries of the giantlizards. I hope there will once be a Wildlife of Laurasia, too. ... Read more