The fascinating true story of the explosion of the Mount Toba supervolcano–the Earth’s largest eruption in the past 28 million years–and its lasting impact on Earth and human evolution

The first vertebrate animals appear in the fossil record over 520 million years ago. These lineages diversified and eventually crept ashore leading to further evolutionary divergence and the appearance of…

Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous fossils in a gripping scientific history. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and…

Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution. In twenty-five vignettes, he recounts the dramatic stories of the people who made crucial discoveries…

Rhinoceroses first appeared in North America about forty million years ago, diversifying into an incredible array of taxa, many bearing no resemblance to the five living species. This important reference…

Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils…