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    • A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
    • By: Steve Brusatte
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....

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    • A New History of a Lost World
    • By: Steve Brusatte
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,447 ratings
    • The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....

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    • A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
    • By: Thomas Halliday
    • Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....

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    • By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....

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    • The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins....

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    • An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
    • By: Riley Black
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 344 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
    • By: Kermit Pattison
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 515 ratings
    • A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....

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    • The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
    • By: Stephen Jay Gould
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Sleep
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived—a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail....

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    • Legend Meets Science
    • By: Jeff Meldrum
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....

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    • 5 out of 5 stars 215 ratings
    • We're living through a golden age of paleontological research that, in the last couple of decades....
    • Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
    • By: Madelaine Böhme
    • Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....

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    • The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg....

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    • A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea
    • By: Michael J. Everhart
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs....

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    • How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods comes a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history....

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    • Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    • By: Stefanos Geroulanos
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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    • Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors
    • By: Nicholas Wade
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 932 ratings
    • Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

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    • The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • In Dinosaurs Rediscovered, leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton gathers together all the latest paleontological evidence, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to an indisputably scientific field....

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    • The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe
    • By: Lisa Randall
    • Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • In Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, Randall tells a breathtaking story that weaves together the cosmos' history and our own....

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    • The Evidence and the People Who Found It
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating breakthroughs in piecing together the evidence for evolution....

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