Author just can't keep his mind on the subject. It's all very well to go into the history of this or that find. But don't drone on and on. I was hoping for more about the animals themselves instead of the sad story of whoever discovered the bones. When you buy a book about prehistoric life you want to learn about prehistoric life. If these paleontologists aren't fossilized I don't want to know that much about them. I am sure I can find their bio elsewhere. I want to know how the creature looked. How big was it. What did it eat. What did it do. Etc etc etc. Not that the bones were discovered by X, bought or stolen by Y and forgotten by everybody else. Ellis' book is much much better. At least it sticks to the point.