Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils (Hardcover)

Introduction: Unlocking the Prehistoric World
Ditching the “Dusty Old Fossils”
Understanding Behavior in Fossils
1. Sex
Mother Fish and Sex as We Know It
Dinosaur Sex Dance
Life in Death: Live Birth in Pregnant “Fish-Lizards”
Jurassic Sex: Captured Forever in the Act
A Pregnant Plesiosaur
When Whales Gave Birth on Land
Sexing a Cretaceous Bird
Shell-Shocked Mating Turtles
Tiny Horses and Tiny Foals
2. Parental Care and Communities
Brooding Dinosaurs
Oldest Parental Care: Ancient Arthropods and Their Young
Pterosaur Nesting Grounds
Megalodon Nursery
The Babysitter
Dinosaur Death Trap
A Prehistoric Pompeii: An Ecosystem Caught in Time
Fish Trapped Inside Giant Clams
Snowmastodon: A Refuge for Small Animals
Giant Floating Ecosystem: A Jurassic Megaraft Crinoid Colony
3. Moving and Making Homes
Mammal Movers: Tragedy at the River Crossing
Follow the Leader: The Earliest Animal Migrations
Sitting on the Jurassic Bay
The Death March: The Final Steps of a Jurassic Horseshoe Crab
Mass Moth Migration
Dinosaur Death Pits
Time to Grow When You Molt and Go
Prehistoric Partners: The Odd Couple
Devil’s Corkscrews
The Dinosaur That Lived in a Burrow
Giant Underground Sloths

4. Fighting, Biting, and Feeding
Clash of the Mammoths
The Fighting Dinosaurs
Jurassic Drama: A Hunt Gone Wrong
Terror Worm of the Primeval Sea
Greedy Fish
Cracking the Case of the Bone-Crushing Dogs
To Catch a Killer: The Snake That Dined on Baby Dinosaurs
A Dinosaur-Eating Mammal
The Feeding Ground: “Something Interesting?”
Hell Pig Meat Cache
Prehistoric Dolls: Fossil Food Chains with a Twist
5. Unusual Happenings
Parasite Rex
Mass Mammal Strandings: An Epic Ancient Graveyard
Soundly Sleeping Dragon
Snap That! A Dramatic Jurassic Croc
The Drama of a Drought?
Eaten From the Inside Out
Dinosaur Tumors
Fossilized “Farts”
Could It Be Dinosaur Pee?
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Index