Fossil History

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    • A History
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 587 ratings
    • In this monumental history, Vaclav Smil provides a comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization and offers listeners a magisterial overview of humanity's energy eras....

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    • Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Myth in Greek and Roman Times
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered fossilized bones of long-extinct species, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain them, expressed in mythological stories....

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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 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 Search for the Conodont Animal
    • By: Simon J. Knell
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" (Priscum)....

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    • The Evolution of the World's Most Famous Human Fossils
    • By: Lydia Pyne
    • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today....

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    • In Search of Future Fossils
    • By: David Farrier
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • What will the world look like in 10,000 years - or 10 million? What kinds of stories will be told about us? In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future....

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    • Secrets of Mars, Book 1
    • By: Joshua T. Calvert
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Secrets of Mars, Book 1
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • In 2018, Canadian archaeologist Ron Jackson makes a mind-boggling discovery in Antarctica - right before disappearing without a trace, leaving behind only his controversial theory that humans have lived on Earth far, far longer than we think they have....

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    • The Search for Our Human Origins
    • By: Ian Tattersall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack....

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    • Secrets of Mars, Book 3
    • By: Joshua T. Calvert
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Secrets of Mars, Book 3
    • Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • It’s been 20 years since the first manned mission to Mars discovered a human fossil on the Red Planet. Now, the democracies of the West are buckling under a new crisis emerging from Russia: 10,000 liberated Builders, now fully grown and no longer protected by the UN, are forced to flee....

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    • Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
    • By: Neil Shubin
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins....

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    • Secrets of Mars, Book 2
    • By: Joshua T. Calvert
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Secrets of Mars, Book 2
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • For years, Filio Amorosa has had one goal, and only one goal: getting back to Mars. All that matters is finding out what happened on her mission there, and why she can’t remember any of it. But when she finally discovers the truth, it blows her whole world apart....

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    • Evolution, the Fossil Record, and Our Place in Nature
    • By: Brian Switek
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • Spectacular fossil finds make today's headlines; new technology unlocks secrets of skeletons unearthed 100 years ago. Still, evolution is often poorly represented by the media and misunderstood by the public....

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    • By: Greig Beck
    • Narrated by: Danny Montooth
    • Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Klaus and Doris have just made the discovery of their lives - a complete Neanderthal skeleton buried in a newly opened sinkhole. But on removing it, something else tumbles free. Something that switches on, and then calls home....

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    • A Recent History
    • By: Nathaniel Rich
    • Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 186 ratings
    • Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy....

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    • A Natural History of Vertebrates
    • By: Georg F. Striedter, R. Glenn Northcutt
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Brains Through Time examines how vertebrate nervous systems evolved in conjunction with other organ systems and the planet's ecology....

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    • The Need-to-Know Facts
    • By: Janet Riehecky, Jon Hughes
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Bird-footed dinosaurs like Iguanodon were plant-eaters that could walk on two legs. Many of the dinosaurs in this group could run away from hungry predators. Others traveled in large herds to stay safe....

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    • By: Sharon Lyon
    • Narrated by: Hattie Caillier Tschida
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • As a woman raised in the 1950s, Henrietta Ballantine has always had to prove herself. Homeschooled to challenge her intellectually, Henrietta spent her childhood with a strict Russian tutor and an overbearing mother for whom she could do nothing right....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: David Norman
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, David Norman discusses how dinosaurs were first discovered and interpreted and how our understanding of them has changed over the past 200 years....

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