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Academic & Professional Books  Palaeontology  Palaeozoology & Extinctions

Bessatsu Shin Bijuaru Ko Seibutsu Jiten [New Visual Encyclopedia of Palaeontology]

By: Newton Press(Author)
144 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: Newton Press
Bessatsu Shin Bijuaru Ko Seibutsu Jiten [New Visual Encyclopedia of Palaeontology]
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Language: Japanese with scientific nomenclature

Palaeontology studies organisms that lived in the past and are preserved as fossils. Examples include trilobites, ammonites, and dinosaurs. Life began about four billion years ago and has evolved from prokaryotes to eukaryotes and then to multicellular organisms. Around 570 million years ago, organisms became large enough to be found as fossils.

In this book, the history of Earth is divided into four major eras and a wide variety of paleontological organisms that inhabited each era are introduced. In the Precambrian Era, there was the Ediacaran Biome, soft-bodied organisms without eyes or teeth. They did not prey on each other, and it seems to have been a sort of “paradise.” Then, in the Paleozoic, life suddenly diversified in less than 10 million years. Through this event, known as the Cambrian Explosion, living things acquired advanced eyes, sharp mouths, and exoskeletons. Anomalocaris, a strange-looking Cambrian monster, and trilobites, also known as the “King of Fossils,” are paleontological creatures representative of the Paleozoic Era.

Dinosaurs survived the mass extinction at the end of the Paleozoic Era and prospered in the Mesozoic Era. Dinosaurs, with their huge bodies and powerful jaws, ruled the earth. But about 66 million years ago, the age of the dinosaurs came to an end when an asteroid hit the earth. Then, the Cenozoic Era, which continues to the present day, began, and various mammals prospered.

This book uses a wealth of illustrations and photographs to visually introduce fascinating prehistoric creatures. The appearance and ecology at that time are explained in an easy-to-understand manner, including research results.

Summary in Japanese:
 過去に生息し,化石として残されている生物を「古生物」とよびます。三葉虫やアンモナイト,恐竜はその代表例といえるでしょう。生命は今から40億年ほど前に誕生し,原核生物から真核生物へ,そして多細胞生物へと進化してきました。およそ5億7000万年前ころになると,生物は大型化し,化石として発見されるようになります。
本書では,地球の歴史を大きく四つの時代に分け,それぞれの時代に生息していた多種多様な古生物を紹介していきます。  「先カンブリア時代」には,眼や歯をもたない軟体性の生物「エディアカラ生物群」がいました。彼らはたがいを捕食することがなく,まるで“楽園”のような時代だったようです。その後,「古生代」に入ると,生命はわずか1000万年にも満たない時間で,突然多様化します。「カンブリア爆発」といわれるこの事件をへて,生物は高度な眼や鋭い口,外骨格などを獲得しました。奇妙な姿をしたカンブリア紀のモンスター,アノマロカリスや,「化石の王様」とも称される三葉虫は,古生代を代表する古生物です。
古生代末の大量絶滅をのりこえ,「中生代」に繁栄したのが恐竜です。恐竜は巨大な体や強靭なあごなどをもち,地上を支配しました。しかし,およそ6600万年前に一つの小惑星が地球に落下すると,恐竜の時代は終わりをむかえます。そして現在までつづく「新生代」が幕をあけ,さまざまな哺乳類が繁栄することとなります。
本書は豊富なイラストや写真を用い,魅力あふれる古生物たちをビジュアルで楽しめるつくりとしました。当時の姿や生態などを,研究成果もまじえてやさしく解説しています。

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By: Newton Press(Author)
144 pages, colour photos, colour illustrations
Publisher: Newton Press
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