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    • A New History of a Lost World
    • By: Steve Brusatte
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,429 ratings
    • The dinosaurs. 66 million years ago, the Earth's most fearsome and spectacular creatures vanished. Today their extraordinary true story remains one of our planet's great mysteries. In this stunning narrative spanning more than 200 million years....

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    • A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
    • By: Steve Brusatte
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 500 ratings
    • We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals....

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    • A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
    • By: Thomas Halliday
    • Narrated by: Adetomiwa Edun
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life....

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    • The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
    • By: Dan Flores
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe....

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    • By: Stuart Sutherland, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Stuart Sutherland
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....

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    • Legend Meets Science
    • By: Jeff Meldrum
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 262 ratings
    • In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....

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    • The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past Series)
    • By: Donald R. Prothero
    • Narrated by: Will Tulin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an enormous variety of land creatures, especially mammals, which in their way were every bit as remarkable as their Mesozoic cousins....

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    • We're living through a golden age of paleontological research that, in the last couple of decades....
    • How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World
    • By: Edward Dolnick
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods comes a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history....

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    • Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human
    • By: Madelaine Böhme
    • Narrated by: Aimée Ayotte
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Fans of Sapiens will love this “fascinating forensic inquiry into human origins” (Kirkus), where a renowned paleontologist takes listeners behind the scenes of one of the most groundbreaking investigations into the origins of humankind....

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    • Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion
    • By: Michael Taylor
    • Narrated by: Michael Langan
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Impossible Monsters reveals the central role of dinosaurs and their discovery in toppling traditional religious authority, and in changing perceptions about the Bible, history, and mankind's place in the world.

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    • Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
    • By: Stefanos Geroulanos
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Western intellectual culture, but gave rise to our modern world.

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    • An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
    • By: Riley Black
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 200 ratings
    • Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. It’s a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek of ancient Montana 66 million years ago. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest. In a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away....

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    • The Search for Our Prehistoric Past
    • By: Frank H. T. Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 438 ratings
    • In Origins, Frank H. T. Rhodes explores the origin and evolution of living things, the changing environments in which they have developed, and the challenges we now face....

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    • The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind
    • By: Kermit Pattison
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 511 ratings
    • A behind-the-scenes account of the discovery of the oldest skeleton of a human ancestor, named "Ardi"—a find that shook the world of paleoanthropology and radically altered our understanding of human evolution....

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    • The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology
    • By: Michael J. Benton
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • In Dinosaurs Rediscovered, leading paleontologist Michael J. Benton gathers together all the latest paleontological evidence, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to an indisputably scientific field....

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    • The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth
    • By: Andrew H. Knoll
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites - such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg....

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    • Princeton Science Library
    • By: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory....

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    • The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery That Changed Our Human Story
    • By: Lee Berger, John Hawks
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 824 ratings
    • A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century....

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    • The New Science of Old Fossils
    • By: Dale Greenwalt
    • Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Christopher Ragland describes the revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life....

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