Scott, who first went fossil-hunting in the West as a Princeton student with Henry Fairfield Osborn, here sums up a lifetime of palaeontology. He explains how geologists and palaeontologists work, how mammals are classified by skeleton and teeth, how the Americas joined and parted, and then follows the successive faunas and the histories of horses, camels, elephants, sloths and many more.
A substantial natural history of the fossil record, for readers drawn to deep time and evolution. Download the free EPUB.