[Rockhounds] Free Online Paleontology (And Other) Books Courtesy John Hopkins University Press

[Paul]

John Hopkins University Press has made available online books
for free for this period of cancelled or remote classes. Some
paleontology books, of which each chapter can be downloaded
free as a PDF are:

Birds of Stone: Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs
Luis M. Chiappe and Meng Qingjin, 2016
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48019

The Rise of Birds: 225 Million Years of Evolution
Sankar Chatterjee, 2015
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/39108

Transylvanian Dinosaurs
David B. Weishampel and Coralia-Maria Jianu, 2011
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/1874

The Rise of Marine Mammals: 50 Million Years of Evolution
Annalisa Berta, 2017
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/56360

The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution
Hans-Dieter Sues, 2019
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/67468

Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
edited by Lars Werdelin, H. Gregory McDonald, and
Christopher A. Shaw, 2018
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/58589

Other free books by John Hopkins University Press
can be found at:
https://muse.jhu.edu/search?action=browse&limit=publisher_id:1

Yours,

Paul H.