I covered Steve Brusatte’s Rise and Reign of the Mammals four months back. I took out his preceding volume The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs from the library last week. This book was first published in 2018, 349 pages of text, another 55 pages of acknowledgments, notes, and index. I think the last overview […]
I like to read natural history now and then. A favorite book as a kid was William E. Scheele’s The First Mammals. A book I would love to have now but unwilling to pay the going rate. Prehistoric mammals don’t get the love that dinosaurs do but illustrations of saber-tooth tigers, mammoths, ground sloths etc […]