Libros de Paleontología, página 3 de 13

L'être humain est un bipède, un animal qui marche. Et c'est avec la marche que la pensée prend forme. Intimement lié à la pensée et à l'imagination, l'exercice physique de la marche est souvent à l'o

The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate vertebrate and plant fossils from around the world This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding identifying and collecting fossils It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description enabling you to recognize a species instantly Over 1 000 photographs with illuminating annotations help you to pick out a fossil s chief characteristics and distinguishing features while a colour illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils what tools and safety equipment are needed for collecting and how best to organize a fossil collection To help you in the initial stages of identification this book provides a visual identification key that makes it easy to recognize a fossil and place it in its correct group Finally a concise glossary gives instant understanding of technical and scientific

Paleontologist Dr David Horne explores the frontiers of dinosaur discovery

An authoritative illustrated guide to the fearsome predators that dominated the Mesozoic world for 180 million years New discoveries are transforming our understanding of the theropod dinosaurs revealing startling new insights into the lives and look of these awesome predators The Princeton Field Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs provides the most up to date and comprehensive coverage of the mighty hunters that ruled the earth for tens of millions of years This incredible guide covers some 300 species and features stunning illustrations of predatory theropods of all shapes and sizes It discusses their history anatomy physiology locomotion reproduction growth and extinction and even gives a taste of what it might be like to travel back to the Mesozoic This one of a kind guide also discusses the controversies surrounding these marvelous creatures taking up such open questions as the form and habitats of the gigantic Spinosaurus and the number of Tyrannosaurus species that may have existed Features detailed species accounts of some 300 theropod dinosaurs with the latest size and mass estimates Shares new perspectives on iconic predators such as T rex and Velociraptor Covers everything from the biology of predatory dinosaurs to the colorful history of paleontolo

Lift the flaps to follow our palaeontologist on an adventure among the dinosaurs

A thrilling re evaluation of the creatures that ruled the earth for 150 million years by one of the world s leading paleontologists

La Región Cantábrica cuenta con una larga tradición arqueozoológica desde los años 70. Sin embargo, esta disciplina necesitaba una actualización metodológica que permitiese obtener la máxima informacion de los restos de fauna acumulados por grupos humanos y/o por otros agentes biologicos no humanos en yacimientos arqueologicos con el objetivo de alcanzar un conocimiento mas amplio y veraz del comportamiento de las sociedades pasadas. Asi pues, frente al desarrollo de estudios meramente descriptivos y cuantitativos, en este trabajo se ha potenciado la aplicacion de la tafonomia comparada, la observacion etnografica, la modelizacion matematica, la inferencia estadistica y el analisis exhaustivo de patrones espaciales. En este libro se presenta los resultados de la aplicacion de esta nueva metodologia arqueozoologica en el estudio del Paleolitico Superior Cantabrico, centrandose en primer lugar en el analisis de los niveles magdalenienses y azilienses de la Cueva del Miron, para posteriormente generalizar los resultados obtenidos al Cantabrico Oriental, como region geografica de caracteristicas orograficas, ambientales y culturales similares. El objetivo final subyacente es promover el debate y la apertura de nuevas lineas de investigacion arqueozoologicas.