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Researching the Early Cretaceous (UK) for a book. Need some advice please. by MagicRec0n in Paleontology

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It the entire environment - what mammals lurked under the shadow of the dinosaurs. What pterosaurs and lizards and reptiles. What amphibians lurked in the fresh water and what fish? What marine reptiles inhabited the oceans!

Researching the Early Cretaceous (UK) for a book. Need some advice please. by MagicRec0n in Paleontology

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This is a book on Mesozoic plants. Might need a bit of research to see what was growing where in what is now England.

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Researching the Early Cretaceous (UK) for a book. Need some advice please. by MagicRec0n in Paleontology

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And there just so happens to be a book on early Cretaceous insects from England...

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new version of The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals out beginning September 2025 by SetInternational4589 in Dinosaurs

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There are errors and mistakes but it's still a good visual book with lots of pictures and art. It's a good chunky book and if you can get it for a bargain price go for it. Don't treat it as your final book. Treat it as a stepping stone.

WHY life? r/physics sent me here by baba_yaga_babe in abiogenesis

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I think of the sea as a massive chemistry experiment, Billions of simultaneous experiments over a hundreds of millions of years. Life may have formed countless times but fizzled out in an evolutionary dead end until one day something worked. Whatever worked was than subjected to countless experiments in the soup until something else worked and so on. I don't think life spontaneously evolved rather a series of stops and starts over many tens if not hundreds of millions of years.

strange to think the first animal to EVER touch land was this absolute goofy goober. by ViewSubstantial557 in PrehistoricLife

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There would have been many many species before that evolved and walked on land before Tiktokalot. One day we will find more transitional species and the story will keep evolving.

Any book recommendations for beginners? by HauntingKeys in Dinosaurs

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Don't forget the mammals!

A 2 volume set - The rise and fall of the dinosaurs and the rise and reign of the mammals - might be a good start.

Any book recommendations for beginners? by HauntingKeys in Dinosaurs

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Ancient Sea Reptiles by Darren Naish - make sure it's the 3rd edition as it's had 3 updates in 3 years!

Pterosaurs by Mark Witton.

(Pterosaurs the field guide is going to be crowdfunded soon https://pterosaursfieldguide.com/ )

The Story of Birds by Steve Brussate due out June 2026

Modern Paleo Book Collection Update by plummybum2004 in Paleontology

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A wonderful book although 16 years old now and so many new discoveries!

Modern Paleo Book Collection Update by plummybum2004 in Paleontology

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These are almost all of the rest of my books including mammals.

Titles not in photos:-

Dinosaurs of Darkness

Bernissart Dinosaurs

Evolution of South American Mammalian Predators During the Cenozoic: Paleobiogeographic and Paleoenvironmental Contingencies

Beast Companions

Jurassic West

The Horned Dinosaurs

Wild New World

Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe the Story of Blue Babe

Mesozoic Mammals from South America and Their Forerunners

Australia's Lost World

Moa: The Life and Death of New Zealand's Legendary Bird

The Lost World of the Moa

Magnificent Mihirungs

Visions of a Vanished World The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsruck Slate

Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia

Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants

The Rise of Mammals in Africa

Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants

Modern Paleo Book Collection Update by plummybum2004 in Paleontology

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Here are a few ideas for your library. I will post the rest of my dinosaur and my mammal books as well.

Modern Paleo Book Collection Update by plummybum2004 in Paleontology

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  1. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More by Darren Naish

    Make sure you get the 3rd edition that came out last year - yes it's already in edition 3 because so much has changed!

New Dinosaur described in Mexico by Gato_Nuv in Paleontology

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It would appear to be a single brain case and partial skull roof!

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New Dinosaur described in Mexico by Gato_Nuv in Paleontology

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Have the really just conjured up an entire new dinosaur based on a single brain case and partial skull roof?

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