Time and again, over hundreds of millions of years, environmental disturbances have
caused mass extinctions of animals ranging from reptiles to corals. The anthropogenic loss …

It is easy to claim that the fossil record says nothing about speciation because the biological
species concept (which relies on interbreeding) cannot be applied to it and genetic studies …

The first book to review all the evidence concerning both the dinosaur extinctions and all the
other major extinctions-of plant, animal, terrestrial, and marine life-in the history of life. All the …

Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and
not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate …

Measuring the completeness of the fossil record is essential to understanding evolution over
long timescales, particularly when comparing evolutionary patterns among biological groups …

A review of the paleontological literature shows that the early dates of appearance of
Lissamphibia recently inferred from molecular data do not favor an origin of extant …

The field of paleobiogeography is derived in direct lineage from its close intellectual cousin,
biogeography, a scientific discipline that had its birth in the adventurous and exploratory …

Life on land today is as much as 25 times as diverse as life in the sea. Paradoxically, this
extraordinarily high level of continental biodiversity has been achieved in a shorter time and …

Recent claims from molecular evidence that modern orders of birds and mammals arose in
the Early Cretaceous, over 100 million years (Myr) ago, are contrary to palaeontological …

The Mesozoic fossil record has proved critical for understanding the early evolution and
subsequent radiation of birds. Little is known, however, about its relative completeness: just …