Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds

by Delphine Angst and Éric Buffetaut

The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785481363
• ISBN13: 9781785481369
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Iste Press - Elsevier
• Length: 296 Pages