Darren Naish

Ancient Sea Reptiles Darren Naish

Discover the ocean's most extraordinary prehistoric creatures

Ancient Sea Reptiles: Monsters of the Deep examines the anatomy, behavior, diversity, lifestyle, and evolutionary rise of creatures who conquered the seas for 150 million years during the Mesozoic era. Expert paleontologist Darren Naish puts these fearsome and mighty creatures under the microscope and transports readers to wild and primeval waters.

Mosasaurs, known as "T-Rexes of the deep," cretaceous sea snakes, long-necked plesiosaurs, crocodile-like thalattosuchians, the earliest sea turtles, and more leap off the pages of this gorgeously illustrated book, which features fossil photography and artistic reconstructions of ancient creatures, from evolutionary anomalies to apex predators who survived extinction events.

More than 80 percent of the world's vast ocean is unmapped and unobserved, prompting the imagination to run wild on what might lurk in its depths. But Ancient Sea Reptiles proves that what stirs the imagination even more are the spectacular prehistoric creatures that have already been discovered. The book is a feast for the eyes and the scientific mind.