Dinosaurs and the prehistoric world: general interest Books

Book SynopsisGo on the hunt with your favorite predators! The Smithsonian Institution presents another awe-inspiring coloring book showcasing some of the fiercest adversaries from the animal kingdom.Guided by experts from the Smithsonian and brought to life by Rachel Curtis (Dinosaurs: A Smithsonian Coloring Book), these luscious pen-and-ink illustrations invite you to step into the wild with some of the most dangerous creatures from the past and present!Tyrannosaurus vs. TriceratopsPraying Mantis vs. CricketOctopus vs. CrabPolar Bear vs. Sea LionDragonfly vs. MosquitoMegalodon vs. AmbulocetusLeopard vs. PeacockTylosaurus vs. PlacenticerasLynx vs. Snowshoe Hare…and many more!Each page of Predators: A Smithsonian Coloring Book not only stands alone as a work of art but is also accompanied by brief and fascinating insights from museum experts, ensuring that time spent coloring is also time spent learning.This book''s deluxe ivory paper allows for a variety of artistic media like pen, pencil, or even watercolor, to ensure your creative vision comes to life just the way you want?and lasts for years to come.

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Book SynopsisFor 150 million years, dinosaurs were the undisputed rulers of the Earth. Today, these great lizards still fire our imaginations. Dinosaurs describes the creatures who lived during the great Age of Reptiles, the real-life giants and monsters such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex and Stegosaurus who once dominated our planet. This stunningly illustrated and accessible reference work features the most impressive and formidable dinosaurs to have been discovered. The entries are arranged by chronological period, running from the Triassic period through to the late Cretaceous, and each entry is illustrated throughout with full-colour annotated artworks. Each of the dinosaur features also includes information boxes containing key facts and figures. The text, using the latest palaeontological research, outlines how the dinosaurs lived and died. Readers will discover the fantastic, extraordinary and outlandish types of dinosaurs that once roamed the Earth – making Dinosaurs essential reading, not only for dinosaur enthusiasts, but for anyone intrigued by nature at its most majestic.Table of ContentsIntroduction BEFORE THE DINOSAURS Anomalocaris Hallucigenia Trilobite Pterygotus Ammonite Cladoselache Eusthenopteron Ichthyostega Dunkleosteus Coelacanth Eogyrinus Hylonomus Arthropleura Eurypterid Cacops Diadectes Eryops Mesosaurus Moschops Platyhystrix Scutosaurus Seymouria Youngina Dimetrodon Diplocaulus Coelurosauravus TRIASSIC Eoraptor Erythrosuchus Euparkeria Euskelosaurus Henodus Hyperodapedon Kannemeyeria Lagosuchus Liliensternus Lotosaurus Melanorosaurus 53 Mussaurus 54 Nanchangosaurus 55 Nothosaurus 56 Pisanosaurus 57 Protoavis 58 Riojasaurus 59 Saltopus 60 Sellosaurus 61 Shansisuchus 62 Shonisaurus 63 Tanystropheus 64 Thecodontosaurus 65 Gracilisuchus 66 Postosuchus 67 Coelophysis 68 Cynognathus 72 Herrerasaurus 76 Lystrosaurus 80 Coloradisaurus 82 Desmatosuchus 83 Staurikosaurus 84 JURASSIC Abrictosaurus 85 Ammosaurus 86 Anchisaurus 87 Barapasaurus 88 Emausaurus 89 Kotasaurus 90 Lufengosaurus 91 Lycorhinus Megapnosaurus 93 Dilophosaurus 94 Scelidosaurus 95 Cryolophosaurus 96 Yunnanosaurus 98 Rhoetosaurus 99 Datousaurus 100 Gasosaurus 101 Lapparentosaurus 102 Metriacanthosaurus 103 Omeisaurus 104 Piatnitzkysaurus 105 Proceratosaurus 106 Xiaosaurus 107 Huayangosaurus 108 Dimorphodon 110 Megalosaurus 111 Eustreptospondylus 112 Shunosaurus 114 Cetiosaurus 118 Cetiosauriscus 119 Lexovisaurus 120 Liopleurodon 122 Tuojiangosaurus 123 Bothriospondylus 124 Camptosaurus 125 Chialingosaurus 126 Coelurus 127 Dicraeosaurus 128 Diplodocus 129 Dracopelta 130 Elaphrosaurus 131 Euhelopus 132 Haplocanthosaurus 133 Othnielia 134 Szechuanosaurus 135 Ultrasauros 136 Yangchuanosaurus 137 Dacentrurus 138 Ornitholestes Apatosaurus Archaeopteryx Compsognathus Allosaurus Brachiosaurus Ceratosaurus Kentrosaurus Seimosaurus Stegosaurus Ophthalmosaurus Dryosaurus Dsungaripterus EARLY CRETACEOUS Gastonia Afrovenator Atlascopcosaurus Becklespinax Chilantaisaurus 171 Fulgurotherium Gilmoreosaurus Harpymimus Hylaeosaurus Leaellynasaura 176 Muttaburrasaurus Pelicanimimus Pelorosaurus Polacanthus Silvisaurus Stenopelix Tapejara Tenontosaurus Tropeognathus Wuerhosaurus 186 Yaverlandia 187 Minmi 188 Sauropelta 190 Zephyrosaurus 192 Giganotosaurus 193 Hypsilophodon 194 Kronosaurus 195 Ouranosaurus 196 Psittacosaurus 197 Acrocanthosaurus 198 Amargasaurus 202 Baryonyx 206 Deinonychus 208 Iguanodon 212 Probactrosaurus 216 Pterodaustro 217 Utahraptor 218 Suchomimus 222 MID CRETACEOUS Argentinosaurus 223 Carcharodontosaurus 224 Spinosaurus 228 LATE CRETACEOUS Abelisaurus 230 Adasaurus 231 Aeolosaurus 232 Alamosaurus 233 Albertosaurus 234 Alectrosaurus 235 Alioramus 236 Alvarezsaurus 237 Anatotitan 238 Anchiceratops 239 Anserimimus 240 Antarctosaurus 241 Aralosaurus 242 Archaeornithomimus 243 Arrhinoceratops 244 Aublysodon 245 Avaceratops 246 Bagaceratops 247 Borogovia 248 Brachyceratops 249 Brachylophosaurus 250 Centrosaurus 251 Chasmosaurus 252 Chirostenotes 253 Conchoraptor 254 Corythosaurus 255 Diceratus 256 Dravidosaurus 257 Dromaeosaurus 258 Dryptosaurus 259 Edmontosaurus 260 Einiosaurus 261 Elasmosaurus 262 Elmisaurus 263 Erlikosaurus 264 Euoplocephalus 265 Garudimimus 266 Goyocephale 267 Hadrosaurus 268 Homalocephale 269 Hypacrosaurus 270 Hypselosaurus 271 Indosuchus 272 Ingenia 273 Jaxartosaurus 274 Leptoceratops 275 Magyarosaurus 276 Majungasaurus 277 Mandschurosaurus 278 Microceratus 279 Montanoceratops 280 Nanotyrannus 281 Nanshiungosaurus 282 Nemegtosaurus 283 Neuquensaurus 284 Nipponosaurus 285 Noasaurus 286 Opisthocoelicaudia 287 Pachyrhinosaurus 288 Panoplosaurus 289 Parksosaurus 290 Pentaceratops 291 Pinacosaurus 292 Prenocephale 293 Prosaurolophus 294 Quaesitosaurus 295 Rhabdodon 296 Saurolophus 297 Saurornithoides 298 Secernosaurus 299 Shantungosaurus 300 Stegoceras 301 Struthiomimus 302 Stygimoloch 303 Talarurus 304 Therizinosaurus 305 Thescelosaurus 306 Titanosaurus 307 Tsintaosaurus 308 Tylocephale 309 Tylosaurus 310 Wannanosaurus 311 Ankylosaurus 312 Nodosaurus 316 Saichania 318 Struthiosaurus 322 Xiphactinus 324 Deinosuchus 325 Euoplocephalus 326 Gallimimus 327 Hesperornis 328 Lambeosaurus 329 Libonectes 330 Mononykus 331 Mosasaur 332 Parasaurolophus 333 Quetzalcoatlus 334 Saltasaurus 335 Tyrannosaurus rex 336 Carnotaurus 340 Deinocheirus 344 Edmontonia 346 Maiasaura 350 Oviraptor 354 Pachycephalosaurus 358 Protoceratops 362 Pteranodon 366 Tarbosaurus 370 Triceratops 374 Troodon 378 Velociraptor 380 Styracosaurus 384 NEOGENE Borhyaena 385 Gastornis 386 Carcharocles Megalodon 390 Platybelodon 391 Thylacosmilus 392 TERTIARY (EOCENE) Coryphodon 393 Hyracotherium 394 Mesonyx 395 Pristichampsus 396 Uintatherium 397 Andrewsarchus 398 Basilosaurus 400 Brontotherium 404 TERTIARY (OLIGOCENE) Arsinoitherium 408 LEXOVISAURUS Mammalodon 409 Pyrotherium 410 Palaeocastor 411 TERTIARY (MIOCENE) Amebelodon 412 Daeodon 413 Deinogalerix 414 Homalodotherium 415 Argentavis 416 Moropus 418 Borophagus 419 Syndyoceras 420 LATE TERTIARY (PLIOCENE) Megatherium 421 Sivatherium 422 PLEISTOCENE Colossochelys 423 Doedicurus 424 Smilodon 426 Woolly Mammoth 430 Homotherium 434 QUATERNARY (PLEISTOCENE) Coelodonta 435 Diprotodon 436 Glyptodon 437 Megaloceros 438 Glossary 439 Fossil Sites Map 440 Index 442

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Book SynopsisWhat did a penguin's great, great, great, great, GREAT grandparent look like? Find out with incredible POP-UP pages!Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax takes a closer look at seven wild animals and, using fossil clues, reveals who their prehistoric relatives were. From a mighty whale to a tiny dragonfly, find out about the wild creatures and their animal families today. Then open the fold-out pages to reveal awesome pop-ups, bringing you face-to-face with their long-extinct ancestors. Go head-to-head with the woolly mammoth, meet the mega shark Megalodon and get to know the prehistoric penguin named Icadyptes. Discover how these animals lived long ago, how they are different to their modern relatives - and how they are the same.Full of fascinating facts, bright illustrations and real fossil finds, meet PREHISTORIC BEASTS of the past.Trade ReviewEngagingly written, bursting with facts and stunning foldout creatures, PREHISTORIC BEASTS is a delight. Perfect reading for inquisitive minds, whether you're an aspiring palaeontologist, a nature nut or simply curious about our ancient past! -- Rebecca Wragg Sykes * Archaeologist and author of Kindred *This fun book about dinosaurs and other ancient beasts is written by a leading authority in the field, a scientist who devotes every waking hour to digging up giant bones and when he's not doing that he is studying how they lived and how they can be compared with living animals. -- Professor Michael Benton, author of The Dinosaurs Rediscovered * Professor Michael Benton, author of The Dinosaurs Rediscovered *Prehistoric Beasts introduces the typically mega-sized prehistoric ancestors or relatives of animals that exist today. Dr Dean Lomax traces seven animals - the elephant, the shark, the sloth, the dragonfly, the alligator, the penguin, and the whale - back nearly 400 million years ago. The book design is brilliant. Each double spread introduces one of the seven animals, describing the animal and their habitat with a full colour illustration on one page. On the other page is a fuller explanation of the different species within the animal's family, conveying the extent of and variety of these creatures and how they survive. There are some surprising facts, such as the elephants' closet living relatives being sirenians or 'sea cows' and sloths only climb down from trees once a week to poo. The second page is also a fold out, finishing with a clue and a question. Can the reader guess the prehistoric ancestor or relative under the flap? When you open the flap ... ... out pops the prehistoric beast. Centre of the fold is Mike Love's fantastically engineered pop-up of the animal, sized, so that the reader literally comes face to face with these prehistoric animals in a variety of action poses - for example the ancient alligator with its teeth around the throat of its prey or the megalodon breaking the surface of the water, scattering dolphins - adding an incredible dynamic to the book. The text presents a further description of each animal and their habitat as well as evidence shown in the fossil record or in the case of the elephant's relatives, remains found in the permafrost. The book is a gold mine of unbelievable facts, including giant penguins taller than humans and giant ants the size of hummingbirds. Sadly, there are only seven animals, and whilst Dr Dean Lomax and Mike Love have chosen the ones that will appeal and fascinate children as well as broaden their interest in natural history, hopefully there will be further books. For me pop-out engineering brings a phenomenal WOW factor to any book but is especially suited to the subject of natural history. Prehistoric Beasts can only be described as a three-dimensional experience, bringing to life ancient ancestors and relics of relatives from a distant past. -- Simon Barrett * Armadillo *Short, digestible, attractive and stimulating. All the information here is presented in language a child aged eight to ten will find appropriate and understandable, and in short, digestible sections. There is a lot for a child and adult, sitting together, to digest and elaborate upon. The pop-ups are sturdy and will withstand a lot of yanking about by enthusiastic young hands! * Laurence Inman, School Reading List *Packed with information in an accessible and engaging format, children aged 5+ won't be able to get enough of this spectacular hardback. Behold the awe and wonder as children peer behind the flaps and unfurl a 3D prehistoric horned Elephant, a toothy shark leaping from the page, a tree-hugging sloth, a dragonfly with flapping wings, a bone-crunching alligator mid-bite and Waddle, an expert penguin related fishcatcher. * Tom Tolkien, School Reading List *This is not a dinosaur book. Instead its pop-up pages offer the fresh meat of less-familiar prehistoric creatures, which will be devoured by little dinosaur experts who know everything there is to know about T Rex and triceratops and are hungry for something new. * Saturday Times *

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Book SynopsisIf you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology is the science of fossilized animals and plants, using discoveries of ancient lifeforms to uncover secrets of the past. From giant dinosaurs, to ammonites, to the first ever humans, explore the greatest findings in palaeontology in this pocket-sized introduction. The Little Book of Palaeontology includes:- The key palaeontological discoveries over the past 400 years, including the dinosaur found complete with intricate scales, and the largest fossil ever uncovered- Profiles of influential palaeontologists such as Jack Horner, Dong Zhiming and Mary Anning- What we have learnt about the lives of ancient creatures and how they became extinct- The big questions about the prehistoric world that palaeontologists are trying to answer todayThis illuminating little book will introduce you to the key thinkers, themes and theories you need to know to understand how life evolved. Look through this window to the past and learn about our prehistoric ancestors and the creatures of a bygone age.

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Book SynopsisNew Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: ‘a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton’. In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar — a close cousin to the more-famous T. rex — that had been unearthed in Mongolia. At 2.4 metres high and 7.3 metres long, the specimen was spectacular, and the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a 38-year-old Floridian, had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A one-time swimmer who’d spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fuelled a thriving business, hunting for, preparing, and selling specimens to clients ranging from natural-history museums to avid private collectors like Leonardo DiCaprio. But had Prokopi gone too far this time? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. An international custody battle ensued, with Prokopi watching as his own world unravelled. The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history, and about a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting — a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, and enthusiast and opportunist can easily blur.Trade Review‘The Dinosaur Artist is a tale that has everything: passion, science, politics, intrigue, and, of course, dinosaurs. Paige Williams is a wonderful storyteller.’ -- Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction‘The Dinosaur Artist is a breathtaking feat of writing and reporting: a strange, irresistible, and beautifully written story steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics. It's at once laugh-out-loud funny and deeply sobering. I was blown away by the depth of its characters, its vivid details, and Paige Williams' incredible command of the facts. Bottom line: this is an extraordinary debut by one of the best nonfiction writers we've got.’ -- Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks‘What a terrific book. A fascinating story of adventure and obsession, and a captivating journey into the world of fossils and fossil peddlers, scientists, museums, international politics, the history of life, and the nature of human nature. Williams writes beautifully about it all. If you love dinosaurs, paleontology, or just a rollicking good tale, you will love this book. I couldn't put it down.’ -- Jennifer Ackerman, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds‘A cracking combination of true crime, dinosaurs, and top-notch investigative journalism. Paige Williams' riveting tale exposes the dodgy dealings of the black market trade in dinosaurs, an international underworld that that few people have probably heard of, and which breaks my heart as a paleontologist.’ -- Steve Brusatte, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs‘Paige Williams is that rare reporter who burrows into a subject until all of its dimensions, all of its darkened corners and secret chambers, are illuminated. With The Dinosaur Artist, she has done more than reveal a gripping true crime story; she has cast light on everything from obsessive fossil hunters to how the earth evolved. This is a tremendous book.’ -- David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon‘The Dinosaur Artist is a triumph. With peerless prose and sharp-eyed reporting, Paige Williams weaves a story that, even as it spans continents and transcends geological epochs, is deeply anchored in the passion and hubris of a rich cast of characters. Captivating, funny, and profound, it is easily one of the strongest works of non-fiction in years.’ -- Ed Yong, staff writer, The Atlantic; New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes‘Paige Williams is as deft as the fossil hunters and skeleton builders she writes about. As they exhume treasures secreted in earthen repositories and assemble brilliant mounts from a scattering of dinosaur bones, she mines exquisite details from a quarry of source materials and pieces together a compelling story out of a spillage of human experience. The result is a work of art.’ -- Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Gulf‘I am in awe of Paige Williams. Every line of The Dinosaur Artist — from her deeply informed discussions of paleontology and the law to her often withering and hilarious descriptions — was a pleasure to read. Few nonfiction writers are capable of mining their characters with such a winning blend of sympathy, wonder, and rigour.’ -- Liza Mundy, New York Times bestselling author of Michelle and Code Girls‘Williams' illuminating chronicle questions who has a right to nature.’ * Booklist *‘Prokopi's case is a fascinating example of the pull of prehistoric fossils and the power of law. Nature enthusiasts, scientists, and politics buffs will sink their teeth into this intriguing account.’ -- Jeffrey Meyer * Library Journal *‘New Yorker staff writer Williams uses the story of fossil enthusiast Eric Prokopi to illuminate the murky world of modern fossil hunting in this fascinating account ... a triumphant book that will appeal to a wide audience.’ * Publishers Weekly *‘A palaeontological page-turner … Williams has written a masterful book of suspense and true-crime that is as fair in the portrayal of its protagonists, as it is thorough in the context in which the story is situated.’ * The Inquisitive Biologist *‘Ms. Williams’s writing is often concise and evocative … gripping and cinematic.’ -- Richard Conniff * The Wall Street Journal *‘An intriguing story of dinosaur smuggling … Good fun for fossil freaks.’ * Kirkus *‘Williams’s painstakingly detailed reporting reminds us that events like these are far more complicated than they might seem, and if we want the commercial fossil trade to be anything other than what it currently is, we must understand the intricate pushes and pulls of the industry ... this is where The Dinosaur Artist excels ... details and characters bring home the fact that the challenge of combating fossil smuggling and reforming the trade is truly daunting.’ -- Lydia Pyne * The Los Angeles Review of Books *‘The strange underground world Prokopi inhabits inevitably brings us in contact with some serious oddballs, each of whom is introduced by Williams with the economy and evocative precision of a haiku. In affectless, purposeful prose we get a stream of increasingly strange and piquant factoids about these people, who seem to emerge straight out of a Coen brothers movie.’ -- Peter Brannen * The New York Times Book Review *‘An ambitious and worthy addition to the natural history and science-writing canon, and also to national cultural heritage literature.’ -- Julia Jackson * Readings *‘Williams uses the story of Prokopi to dig into the muddy world of fossil collectors, dealers and sellers. It’s a world where underfunded museums compete with wealthy film stars to buy the most valuable skeletons, and only expert palaeontologists can identify bones that can be easily smuggled from a country where they are protected to a country where they can be sold freely. It’s a fascinating journey to the centre of the modern Jurassic world.’ * Herald Sun *‘New Yorker writer Paige Williams assembles the story as meticulously as a palaeontologist and the result is fascinating, taking in the tales of the protagonists, the tussles between science and commercial fossil hunters and the history of the science itself … A superior piece of investigative writing.’ * Sydney Morning Herald *‘A timely caution on the perils of buried treasure.’ -- Robyn Douglas * Adelaide Advertiser *

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Book SynopsisDinomania ★★★★★ ‘Wildly inventive theatre company Kandinsky return with a head-spinningly smart show about Victorian fossil hunters…No-one else makes theatre quite like this.’ Time Out Dinomania was originally commissioned by New Diorama Theatre, running from 19 February to 23 March 2019. 165 million years ago, an iguanodon is killed in the heart of a rainforest. Time passes, the rainforest becomes the South Downs, and every part of the iguanodon degrades and disappears – except one tooth. 197 years ago, in safe, affluent 1820s Sussex, a country doctor finds the tooth. But where does it fit in the story of an earth created by God just 6,000 years ago? ★★★★ Evening Standard ★★★★ ‘Consistently smart and inventive.’ The Stage ★★★★ ‘Brilliant comic timing… I have rarely seen such an electric cast’ A Younger Theatre ‘This is such intelligent work from a seriously talented company’ – Lyn Gardner for Stagedoor ‘Sharply funny and exciting throughout’ – The TLS ‘For Kandinsky, this is yet another nuanced, reflective, and highly creative approach to theatre-making. Original and perceptive, this is storytelling at its best.’ – Exeunt Trap Street ★★★★ ‘Trap Street is an 80-minute show that melds an astonishing complexity of themes, a mastery of form and a deep, deep humanity … another triumph for Kandinsky’ Time Out This show premiered at New Diorama Theatre, running from 6 to 31 March 2018. It also ran at the Schaubühne, Berlin from 5 to 7 April 2019 as part of the Festival of International New Drama (FIND) where the New York Times described it as: ‘not only the highlight of the festival but one of the most ingenious pieces of new theater I have seen recently… The three-person cast deftly shifts between time periods in a mesmerizing single act that combines minimal stagecraft, improvised music and finely chiseled performances to create an anguished cry of moral outrage about neoliberal economic policies, gentrification and the erosion of the social security system.’ It’s 1961 and the concrete’s just been poured for a brand new housing estate. It’s beautiful, not because of the clean lines, indoor toilets and wide windows, but because the idea behind it is beautiful. This is the future, and it’s for everyone. It’s 2018 and the last tower of the estate is about to come down. The dream that saw it built has long since died and now the estate has to follow suit to make way for new buildings, based on new ideas. This is the future, whether you like it or not. ★★★★ ‘Timely critique about the housing crisis is both angry and humane.’ Evening Standard ★★★★ ‘Compelling and intelligent’ The Stage ‘ferociously intelligent, poignant … Trap Street effectively maps the process of British dreaming, and how that process is permanently written into the landscape itself.’ Exeunt Kandinsky brings the company’s trademark theatrical inventiveness to city life, exploring a community trying to find its way in a landscape shaped by power. TRAP STREET charts 50 years of changing attitudes to ownership and space in London, to ask what home means in 2018.

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Book SynopsisIt was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions of dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, cavemen, and other creatures, shaping our understanding of the primeval past through their exhilarating images.In this unprecedented new book, writer Zoë Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of paleoart from 1830 to 1990. These are not cave paintings produced thousands of years ago, but modern visions of prehistory: stunning paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, and murals that mingle scientific fact with unbridled fantasy. The collection provides an in-depth look at this neglected niche of art history and shows how the artists charged with imagining extinct creatures often projected their own aesthetic whims onto prehistory, rendering the primordial past with dashes of Romanticism, Impressionism, Japonisme, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau, among other influences.With an incisive essay from Lescaze, a preface by Ford, four fold-outs, and dozens of details, the book showcases a stunning collection of artworks culled from major natural history museums, obscure archives, and private collections, and includes new photography of key works, including Charles R. Knight's seminal paintings in Chicago and little-known masterpieces such as A. M. Belashov's monumental mosaic in Moscow. From the fearsome to the fantastical, Paleoart is a celebration of prehistoric animals in art, and a novel chance to understand our favorite extinct beasts through an art historical lens.

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