The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals

Like The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs (Paul, 2016), this book may not actually be much use in the field, although it does touch on some extant mammals, either those still surviving or their living relatives. While dinosaurs seem to be an evergreen favourite of the young, I don’t suppose I was the only child fascinated by the mega-mammals of the post-dinosaur era: mammoths, mastodons, woolly rhinoceroses, sabre-toothed tigers, cave lions and cave bears, giant deer and giant sloths. This is a fascination which endures among some adults, as the periodic plans to clone a mammoth bear witness...