Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil
8 best books like Resurrecting the Shark: A Scientific Obsession and the Mavericks Who Solved the Mystery of a 270-Million-Year-Old Fossil (Susan Ewing): The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, Wolves in the Land of Salmon, End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals, The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story, The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream, Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
| Author | John Vaillant |
| ISBN | 0307268934 |
It’s December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome...
Wolves in the Land of Salmon
| Author | David Moskowitz |
| ISBN | 1604692278 |
Long considered an icon of the wild, wolves capture our imagination and spark controversy. Humans are the adult wolf’s only true natural predator; its return to the old-growth forests and wild coastlines of the Pacific Northwest renews age-old questions about the value of wildlands and wildlife.
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End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
| Author | Ross D.E. MacPhee |
| ISBN | 0393249298 |
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands....
| Author | Dimitra Papagianni |
| ISBN | 0500292043 |
In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ behavior was surprisingly modern: they buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals in...
| Author | Preston B. Nichols |
| ISBN | 0963188909 |
"It's all true!" barked a passer-by who happened to catch me reading Preston Nichols' The Montauk Project: Experiments in Time at a sidewalk cafe. "Every word of it!"
And with that, he ducked into the door of a nearby building. I didn't get more than a glimpse of the man from behind before he vanished.
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Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon
The author of the New York Times bestseller You Are the Placebo, as well as Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself and Evolve Your Brain, draws on research conducted at his advanced workshops since 2012 to explore how common people are doing the uncommon to transform themselves and their lives. Becoming...
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
A moving true story of American struggle.
Royal, Nebraska, population eighty-one—where the church, high school, and post office each stand abandoned, monuments to a Great Plains town that never flourished. But for nearly twenty years, they had a zoo, seven acres that rose from local peculiarity...
Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures
| Author | Ben Mezrich |
| ISBN | 1501135554 |
Science fiction becomes reality in this Jurassic Park-like story of the genetic resurrection of an extinct species—the woolly mammoth—by the bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and The 37th Parallel.
“With his knack for turning narrative nonfiction into stories...
