Learn about prehistoric life
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
by:
Steve Brusatte
4.21 avg rating — 38,318 ratings 
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
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Richard Dawkins
4.14 avg rating — 28,420 ratings 
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At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.08 avg rating — 2,095 ratings 7. 
Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
by:
Sharon Levy
3.97 avg rating — 210 ratings 
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Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
by:
David Burnie
4.52 avg rating — 607 ratings 
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Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange new fossils challenging everything we thought we knew
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John Pickrell
4.10 avg rating — 274 ratings 13. 
Written in Stone: The Hidden Secrets of Fossils and the Story of Life on Earth
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Brian Switek
4.05 avg rating — 897 ratings 13. 
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
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Matt Ridley
4.05 avg rating — 17,201 ratings 13. 
The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples
by:
Tim Flannery
4.09 avg rating — 922 ratings 
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My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs
by:
Brian Switek
3.94 avg rating — 1,616 ratings 19. 
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet 4.14 avg rating — 144 ratings
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals 3.97 avg rating — 544 ratings
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A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Pithy Chapters
by:
Henry Gee
4.05 avg rating — 2,894 ratings 22. 
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by:
Richard Fortey
4.08 avg rating — 3,321 ratings 23. 
Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur
by:
Carl Safina
4.25 avg rating — 917 ratings 24. 
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
by:
Margalit Fox
4.01 avg rating — 3,647 ratings 
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The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory
by:
J.M. Adovasio
3.80 avg rating — 340 ratings 
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Gorgon: The Monsters That Ruled the Planet Before Dinosaurs and How They Died in the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
by:
Peter D. Ward
3.76 avg rating — 391 ratings 24. 
'Dinosaurs' of the Deep: Discover Prehistoric Marine Life
by:
Larry Verstraete
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 24. 
Rancho LA Brea: A Record of Pleistocene Life in California (Science Series, No 37)
by:
Chester Stock
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
by:
Dougal Dixon
4.44 avg rating — 48 ratings 
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The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know
by:
David Hone
4.18 avg rating — 252 ratings 
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The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life
by:
Barry Cox
4.51 avg rating — 111 ratings 
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Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australasian Lands and People
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Tim Flannery
4.20 avg rating — 931 ratings 