Discusses the weird amphibians, reptiles, and land animals that preceded the dinosaurs on earth; the evolution of dinosaurs and the earliest birds and sea serpe

Accurate, synthetic, and sweeping, The Rise of Reptiles is the definitive work on the subject.

Modern crocodylians--crocodiles, alligators, caiman (Central and South America), and gharials (India)--have evolved over 250 million years from a fully terrestr

This book describes how the various alien reptiles and amphibians now living in the wild throughout the world were first introduced, how they subsequently becam