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The Halls of Invertebrate Evolution at the American Museum of Natural History display the world's greatest fossil collection and have long been a treasured landmark in New York; they currently attract about 1.5 million visitors each year. Dinosaurs fascinate people of all ages. A look at the Museum's giant Barosaurus skeleton rising up on its hid legs to face a predator, or at the specimen of the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex, enables us to journey back in time to imagine even earlier animals that lived as long as hundreds of millions of years ago. Most fossils are not actual bones but mineralized replicas of an animal's hard parts, yet they enable us to see that vertebrate animals, including humans, share an evolutionary heritage that includes the smallest jawless fish who lived 500 million years ago as well as massive dinosaurs, and mammals of the Ice Age such as wooly mammoths and saber-toothed cats.

All of these specimens and hundreds more are collected in the spectacular, newly renovated fossil halls at the Museum. This book, liberally illustrated with beautiful new color and archival photography, and artwork and graphics produced especially for the renovated exhibits, is an in-depth look at the evolution of vertebrate animals in the collection. In an incisive, behind-the-scenes text, paleontologist Lowell Dingus discusses the earliest specimens: fish, amphibians, and primitive reptiles that represent evolutionary starting points for major groups; the popular saurischian dinosaurs, including the seventeen-ton Apatosaurus (once called Brontosaurus) skeleton; and ornithischian dinosaurs such as the horned Triceratops. He concludes with the mammal halls, where animals as diverse as the finbacked Dimetrodon, mastodons, and, after primates, our closest "next of kin"-- bats-- are shown to be related by one hole in the skull behind the eye socket. This modification illustrates the contemporary approach to evolution that readers will learn about called cladistics, which establishes animal relationships based on unique shared anatomical changes that were inherited over the course of time. The Museum galleries are organized to reflect how this approach has been used to reconstruct the family tree of vertebrate evolution: walking along the main pathway through the fossil halls is like walking along the trunk of the vertebrate evolutionary tree.

The first of the seven halls was opened in 1877 and featured ornate columns, ironworks, high ceilings, and large arched windows with spectacular views of Central Park. A ten-year restoration project has now returned the halls to their original grandeur and redesigned the fossil installations. This volume celebrates the dynamic fossil displays and the magnificent architecture of the American Museum of Natural History; it also introduces provocative questions about long-extinct species and the mysteries of life on Earth.

Great guide to the Museum of Natural History exhibits
This is the next best thing to being there!A readable, accessible history of the Musuem of Natural History itself; or rather of its world famous halls of dinosaurs and mammals.After a multimillion dollar facelift the exhibits reflect the latest theories in vertebrate science--and there are some major revisions made.The chapter on Horses is worth the price of the book.Black and white photos of the older mounts are juxtaposed with brilliant color shots of the new, revised versions.The Apatosaurus gets a new head and longer tail, the Tyrannosaurs goes for a run, and the Horses develop in groups.The book's tone reflects the pride the Museum's staff feel in their accomplishments, and it is enough to make one book an immediate flight to New York just to see these marvels--if not 'in the flesh' at least in the round.Highly recommended ... Read more

1. Catalogue of the Mesozoic Mammalia in the Geological Department of the British Museum and American Mesozoic Mammalia: Memoirs of the Peabody Museum (History of Paleontology) by George G. Simpson
	Hardcover: 475 Pages (1980-05) list price: US$73.95 -- used & new: US$73.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 040512743X Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

2. Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies (Bulletin - United States, National Museum) by Thomas Wayland Vaughan
	Unknown Binding: 612 Pages (1919) Asin: B00086AP6A Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

3. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the McPherson Equus beds: (Sandahl local fauna), McPherson County, Kansas, (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan) by Holmes A Semken
	Unknown Binding: 178 Pages (1966) Asin: B0006BS848 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

4. Fossil flora of the Michigan coal basin (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan) by Chester A Arnold
	Unknown Binding: 269 Pages (1949) Asin: B0007DONTE Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

5. Mammalian and other fossils,: Early Eocene Pass Peak Formation, central western Wyoming, (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan, v. 22, no. 16) by John Adam Dorr
	Unknown Binding: 219 Pages (1969) Asin: B0006CD8RO Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

6. A new microtine rodent from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas, (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, v. 23, no. 7) by Claude William Hibbard
	Unknown Binding: 103 Pages (1970) Asin: B0006CSHA2 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

7. A description and stratigraphic correlation of the Fenestellidae from the Devonian of Michigan, (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology ... University of Michigan) by Charles F Deiss
	Unknown Binding: 275 Pages (1932) Asin: B000863ZY4 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

8. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan by E. C Case
	Unknown Binding: Pages (1951) Asin: B0007EJRWQ Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

9. A GUIDE TO EXHIBITION GALLERIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), CROMWELL ROAD LONDON, S. W. PART I. FOSSIL MAMMALS AND BIRDS., AND PART II.,FOSSIL REPTILES, FISHES, AND INVERTEBRATES. (2 VOLUMES). by No Author.
	Hardcover: Pages (1886) Asin: B000O9KDFE Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

10. An Agenda for Antiquity: Henry Fairfield Osborn & Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, 1890-1935 (History of American Science and Technology Series) by Ronald Rainger
	Hardcover: 536 Pages (1991-10) list price: US$49.50 -- used & new: US$13.00 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 081730536X Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

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12. Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology and the Drumheller Valley
	Paperback: Pages (1995) Asin: B000BWIZZO Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
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11. The Pliocene rodent Microtoscoptes disjunctus (Wilson) from Idaho and Wyoming, (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, v. 23, no. 6) by Claude William Hibbard
	Unknown Binding: 98 Pages (1970) Asin: B0006D2HQG Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

13. A new mastodon, Serridentinus meadensis, from the Middle Pliocene of Kansas (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan) by Claude William Hibbard
	Unknown Binding: 225 Pages (1951) Asin: B0007EZSHE Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

14. A new Pliocene species of Ambystoma,: With remarks on other fossil ambystomids (University of Michigan. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology) by Joseph Anton Tihen
	Unknown Binding: 244 Pages (1955) Asin: B0006AUEXW Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

15. Vertebrate fossils from the Pleistocene Stump Arroyo member, Meade County, Kansas (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan) by Claude William Hibbard
	Unknown Binding: 245 Pages (1951) Asin: B0007EZSHY Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

16. A GUIDE TO EXHIBITION GALLERIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY), CROMWELL ROAD LONDON, S. W. by Henry. (Preface). Woodward
	Hardcover: Pages (1886) Asin: B000O9M6OA Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

18. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Vol. III by Eugene S. McCartney
	Hardcover: Pages (1932) Asin: B000WW6UBY Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

19. Newfound Early Cretaceous dinosaurs and other fossils in southeastern Idaho and westernmost Wyoming (Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology) by John Adam Dorr
	Unknown Binding: Pages (1985) Asin: B00070HQZA Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

20. Royal Tyrrell Museum: Official Museum Guidebook: Drumheller, Alberta, Canada by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology
	Paperback: Pages (9999) Isbn: 0969729200 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan