Collection: Adult Non Fiction - Animals

The story of our unlikely romance with the dinosaurs, from the finding of their enormous bones to the dinosaur theme parks of today.

Dinosaur bones had been found centuries before scientists understood what they were and what creatures they came from; ancient Chinese writings spoke of "dragon" bones, and large fossils discovered in the UK were thought to belong to human giants. It was only with the exploration and meticulous r...

"Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most fascinating parts of the lives of Earth's most awe-inspiring creatures - the dinosaurs. Dr Dean Lomax brings these prehistoric creatures to life in ten bite-sized essays, written for people short on time but not curiosity. Making big ide...

A recognition guide to over 200 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. It features clear photographs of fossils sitting alongside realistic artworks and digital images that show how the animals may have appeared in the flesh. In this fully revised and updated edition, jargon-free text pinpoints...

Fascinating and authoritative, this book is an unprecedented survey of millions of years of life on planet Earth. Featuring an incredible mix of 3-D reconstructions, extraordinary skeletons, and amazingly intricate fossils, it uses the latest scientific research to recreate a wealth of ancient sp...

Note: CSIRO Publishing have rights in Australia and New Zealand. The Natural History Museum, London has rest of world rights. Discover the groundbreaking developments in dinosaur research from around the world with this state-of-the-art guide to dinosaur biology. "Dinosaurs" reveals the latest fi...

Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were - or at least, they didn't look like you thought they did. The world-leading palaeontologist Michael J. Benton brings us a new visual guide to the world of the dinosaurs, showing how rapid advances in technology and amazing new fossil finds have change...

Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted - we can now work out the colour of dinosaurs, their bite forces, top speeds, a...

In the last fifty years our butterfly populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now facing the very real prospect of extinction. It is hard to remember the time when fields and meadows were full of these beautiful, delicate creatures -- today we rarely catch a gli...

A charming and beautifully-written gift book about cats and the women who love them, from internationally bestselling novelist Belinda Alexandra.