The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Concise detailed review—amply illustrated—of the astonishing creatures that ruled the earth
for some 180 million years, with particular emphasis on the tetrapods (four-legged …

One of the most important achievements in the history of vertebrates was the capacity to
reproduce in the absence of standing water. The eggs of reptiles, birds, and mammals have …

One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of
dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that …

The history of life has been punctuated by a number of major advances. Among the
vertebrates, one of the most important events was the achievement of a reproductive pattern …

Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally
terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like …

The big event in our past prehistory was the challenge met by early aquatic fish-like
vertebrates of colonizing the land, already populated by tempting and doubtless abundant …

When the The Dinosauria was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as" the
best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs" and" an historically unparalleled …

This book presents a major summary of what is currently known about North American
amphibians and fossils in the Pleistocene. The only book available on the subject, it …