Rhinoceros Giants: The Paleobiology of Indricotheres (Life of the Past) - Hardcover

Prothero, Donald R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253008190 ISBN 13: 9780253008190

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2013

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Title: Rhinoceros Giants <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: Donald R Prothero <>Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Review:

In a look at the biggest of these wonders . . . Prothero delves into these overlooked big guys, the most massive mammals to ever walk the Earth . . . [and] cuts across every aspect of paleontology to tell the story of these vanished giants. Chapters range from entertaining recounting of discoverers . . . to scholarly descriptions of the rules that biologists must follow to name a new species or estimate a vanished rhino's weight. Source: USA Today

Through copious background details, Prothero celebrates great and lesser-known names in the history of paleontology, as well as geological and taxonomic nitty gritty. Source: National Geographic Laelaps

Within this slim tome . . . Prothero packs in an encyclopedic summary of indrithocere anatomy and biology . . . Highly recommended. Source: Choice

Clearly, this book is a milestone on the subject, one of those books that are a classic already at their first appearance. Source: Priscum

From the Author:

Recipient of the 2013 James Shea Award of the National Association of Geology Teachers for outstanding writing and editing in the geosciences.

Donald R. Prothero is Emeritus Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He has published 32 books, including Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future (IU Press, 2013); Earth: Portrait of a Planet; The Evolution of Earth; Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters; Catastrophes!; and After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (IU Press, 2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0253008190
• ISBN 13: 9780253008190
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Illustrator: Buell Carl