Bristol palaeobiologists are active in research and teaching at an international level. Part of our activity is to produce general, and more specialist, texts for palaeobiologists around the world. We also write lots of popular and childrens' books about dinosaurs, and related topics, but these are not listed here. Recent books include:
- 2009 Introduction to paleobiology and the fossil record by M. J. Benton and D. A. T. Harper. Book details for people in Europe and in North America.
- 2008 A very short introduction to the history of life by M. J. Benton. Book details for people in Europe and in North America.
- 2008 The seventy great mysteries of the natural world edited by M. J. Benton. Book details for people in the UK and in North America. Sample text here. The editor rambles on about the book here.
- 2008 When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time [revised, paperback edition] by M. J. Benton
- 2005 Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain by M. J. Benton, L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant, and J. J. Hooker
- 2005 Vertebrate palaeontology (Third edition) by M. J. Benton. Additional information and resources available here.
- 2003 Telling the evolutionary time: Molecular clocks and the fossil record edited by P. J. C. Donoghue and M. P. Smith
- 2003 When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time by M. J. Benton
- 2002 Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain by M. J. Benton, E. Cook, and P. J. Turner
- 2001 Atlas of the evolving earth by R. Moody, A. Zhuravlev, D. Dixon, and I. Jenkins
- 2001 Palaeobiology II , edited by D. E. G. Briggs and P. Crowther
- 2000 The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia , edited by M. J. Benton, D. M. Unwin, M. A. Shishkin, and E. N. Kurochkin
- 2000 Walking with dinosaurs: the facts by M. J. Benton
- 1999 Fossil fishes of Great Britain by D. L. Dineley and S. J. Metcalf
- 1998 The fossils of the Hunsruck Slate by C. Bartels, D. E. G. Briggs, and G. Brassel
- 1997 Basic palaeontology by M. J. Benton and D. A. T. Harper
- 1997 Vertebrate palaeontology (Second edition) by M. J. Benton
- 1996 The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- 1996 The Viking atlas of evolution by R. Osborne and M. J. Benton
- 1995 Fossil reptiles of Great Britain by M. J. Benton and P. S. Spencer
- 1994 The fossils of the Burgess Shale by D. E. G. Briggs, D. H. Erwin, and F. J. Collier
- 1993 The fossil record 2 edited by M. J. Benton
- 1991 Taphonomy: releasing the data locked in the fossil record edited by P. A. Allison and D. E. G. Briggs
- 1991 The rise of the mammals by M. J. Benton
- 1991 The reign of the reptiles by M. J. Benton
- 1990 On the trail of the dinosaurs by M. J. Benton
- 1990 Vertebrate palaeontology by M. J. Benton
- 1990 Palaeobiology, a synthesis by D. E. G. Briggs and P. R. Crowther
- 1989 Evolution and the fossil record edited by K. C. Allen and D. E. G. Briggs
- 1988 The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by M. J. Benton
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