Weird Earth Av Donald R. Prothero

Every rock is a tangible trace of the earth's past. This book tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. In twenty-five chapters-each about a particular rock, outcrop, or geologic phenomenon-Donald...

More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called "The Lost World" with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying...

<b>The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano--the Earth''s largest eruption in the past 28 million years--and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution</b><br><br>Some 73,000 years...

Donald R. Prothero's Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, and reframes creationism...