AUSTRALIAN FAUNA PALEONTOLOGY
A road trip along the rise of life : a journey around Australia, stopping off wherever there are clues about how life evolved, from ancient cyanide-eating bacteria through to dinosaurs, diprotodons, & today’s kangaroos, koalas & wombats. Among the sites explored in this book are : the rocky red hills of the Pilbara, home of the world’s oldest fossils, the Ediacara Hills where the beginning of complex life forms can be discovered, the dazzling fossil treasure trove at Canowindra, etc x, 294 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm. #180222R/120822/150423 First Edition.
Fossils — Australia. | Animals, Fossil — Australia. | Paleontology — Australia. | Natural history — Australia. | Evolutionary paleobiology — Australia.