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This week's at the library: An early review copy of the 3-volume The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. What will you be doing with your January? Well...

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A photo of three large hardback volumes of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor. Each cover shows a colour illustration of several dinosaurs in a naturalistic landscape.

quoted Ends of the World by Peter Brannen

Peter Brannen: Ends of the World (2017, HarperCollins Publishers)

"As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most …

Dinosaurs are the protagonists so far in the history of animal life on land — not some peculiar preamble to our own story. Throughout the epochs they inhabited every niche — predator and prey, herbivore and carnivore — and spanned every size, from the pigeonlike anchiornis to the hangarsized argentinosaurus. Sauropods like these were so monumental that their methane farts might have been partly responsible for making the Mesozoic so warm.

— Ends of the World by  (43%)

This is a majestic book. It really blew my mind. It is all so beautiful, mesmerizing, and fucking scary.

And maybe funny #Mesozoic #Farts #Dinosaurs

This week's at the library:
- A second-hand copy of The Desert Bones: The and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher from Indiana University Press
- The just-published H. P. Collected Fiction Volume 3, the final of three annotated collections by S. T. Joshi from Chiroptera Press
- Following on from my review of Lechuguilla Cave, I found the earlier photographic book Lechuguilla: Jewel of the Underground by Urs Widmer from Speleo Projects for a very reasonable price on eBay.

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A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor. On the left, standing up, The Desert Bones, showing a colour drawing of Spinosaurus on a sandy plain with two crocodylians in the foreground, and some sauropods in the background. In the middle, lying down, H. P. Lovecraft Collected Fiction Volume 3, showing the spine and a colourful illustration of a tentacled monster. On the right, standing up, Lechuguilla: Jewel of the Underground, showing a colour photo of a caver in a yellow outfit sitting in a cave, looking up at huge white hanging crystals in Lechuguilla.

New review: The Secret Lives of Dinosaurs turns heads with its beautiful presentation and its selection of remarkable fossils, improving on the concept introduced in Lomax's previous book.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/11/12/book-review-the-secret-lives-of-dinosaurs-unearthing-the-real-behaviors-of-prehistoric-animals/

@BobNicholls @bookstodon@a.gup.pe

New review: A mouth-watering and remarkably diverse collection of the very best of current palaeoart, Mesozoic Art II takes all the winning qualities of the first volume to give us, yes please, *more* of the same.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/24/book-review-mesozoic-art-ii-dinosaurs-and-other-ancient-animals-in-art/

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The Inquisitive Biologist turns 8! Here's the latest review...

How would life have evolved had the dinosaurs survived? This facsimile reprint of Dougal Dixon's second classic work of speculative zoology imagines the answer and remains as captivating and entertaining as it was in 1988.

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/09/19/book-review-the-new-dinosaurs-an-alternative-evolution/

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