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.
Locked in Time : Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils