Books available for review announcement - updated!
The following volumes are available to Paleontological Society members in exchange for writing a review in Priscum. Reviews should be informative, engaging, and 400–800 words long. The tone can be informal and casual, appropriate to recommending a book to colleagues. Reviews are expected to be returned within six months after receipt. Past book reviews can be found in past issues of Priscum at https://www.paleosoc.org/priscum-newsletter and https://www.paleosoc.org/blog. Reviewers must be a current member of the Paleontological Society before beginning review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these texts, please contact Book Reviews Editor Phil Novack-Gottshall ([email protected])
Book publishers: Please contact Book Reviews Editor Phil Novack-Gottshall ([email protected]) if you are interested in providing review copies for inclusion in Priscum, which has a readership of more than 1,100 professional and avocational paleontologists, and with reviews that are published with open access.
Available for Review
Ball, P. 2023. How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology. Univ. Chicago Press.
Barrett, P.M. 2024. A History of Dinosaurs in 50 Fossils. Smithsonian Books.
Benito, J. and R. Olivé. 2024. Birds of the Mesozoic. Princeton Field Guides. Princeton Univ. Press.
Casanovas-Vilar, I., L.W. van der Hoek Ostende, C.M. Janis, and J. Saarinen, eds. 2023. Evolution of Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas and Ecosystems: 25 Years of the NOW Database of Fossil Mammals. Springer.
Catania, K. 2024. Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved. Princeton Univ. Press.
Delson, E. M. Faure & C. Guérin, eds. 2024. Senèze: Life in Central France Two Million Years Ago. Paleontology, Geochronology, Stratigraphy and Taphonomy. Cham (Switzerland): Springer
Duffy, J.E. 2021. Ocean Ecology: Marine Life in the Age of Humans. Princeton Univ. Press.
Gardiner, L.S. 2025. Reefs of Time: What Fossils Reveal about Coral Survival. Princeton Univ. Press.
Grant, P.R. and B.R. Grant. 2024. 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches on Daphne Major Island. New edition. Princeton Univ. Press.
Halls, K.M. R. Spears (illustrator). 2024. A Dinosaur for Washington: The True Story of Suciasaurus. An Illustrated Children’s Book. Little Bigfoot Press.
Hone, D. 2022. How Fast did T. rex Run? Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science. Princeton Univ. Press.
Hone, D. 2024. Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior: What They Did and How We Know. Princeton Univ. Press.
Jackson, P.N.W. 2019. Introducing Palaeontology—A Guide to Ancient Life. 2nd ed. Dunedin Academic Press.
Kabatko, L. and L. L. Knowles, eds. 2025. Species Tree Inference: A Guide to Methods and Applications. Princeton Univ. Press.
Lambert, J.E., M.A.H. Bryer, and J.M. Rothman. 2024. How Primates Eat: A Synthesis of Nutritional Ecology across a Mammal Order. Univ. Chicago Press.
Lieberman, B. S., and Eldredge, N. 2024. Macroevolutionaries: Reflections on Natural History, Paleontology, and Stephen Jay Gould. Columbia Univ. Press.
Lucas, S.G., A.P. Hunt, and H. Klein, eds. 2024. Vertebrate Ichnology: Tetrapod Tracks and Trackways. Elsevier.
Lucas, S.G., A.P. Hunt, and H. Klein, eds. 2025. Vertebrate Ichnology: Fish Ichnology, Consumption, Burrows and Reproduction, Geoconservation. Elsevier.
Manias, C. 2025. Palaeontology in Public: Popular Science Lost Creatures and Deep Time. UCL Press.
Molina-Pérez, R. and A. Larramendi. 2024. Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Sauropods and Other Sauropodomorphs. Princeton Univ. Press.
Paul, G.S. 2024. The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs. 3rd edition. Princeton Univ. Press.
Paul, G.S. 2024. The Princeton Guide to Predatory Dinosaurs. Princeton Univ. Press.
Retallack, G. 2025. Paleopoems. Gregory Retallack Publishing.
Stanley, S. 2024. T. rex, Darwin, and Adventures Out West. Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA.
Taylor, P.D. 2025. Fossils: An Essential Guide. Univ. Chicago Press.
Witton, M.P. 2025. King Tyrant: A Natural History of Tyrannosaurus rex. Princeton Univ. Press.