This book showcases the scientists who have discovered incredible fossils in deserts, rocky cliffs, underwater caves, and other locations all around the world. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Describes how and where fossils are found and what they represent using examples of real fossils, from the point of view of a paleontologist.
What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters.
" Here at last, Shelley Emling returns Mary Anning, of whom Stephen J. Gould remarked, is "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology," to her deserved place in history.
Rogers has drawn upon field diaries, letters, records, and photo albums for this account of the Sternbergs, a father (Charles H.)-and- sons (George, Charlie, and Levi) team who, from the...
Book Two of The Quintaglio Ascension Robert J. Sawyer. unknown specimen would be rubbed a;g,ainst the samples in turn. The specimen would scratch some ot the lower-mimbered samples, nteanine it was harder than those, ...
Shelley arrives at her aunt and uncle's cottage on Grey Rocks Lake and is excited to see her cousin Kyle.
Digging Up the Past/Fossil Hunters
The Life of a Fossil Hunter
But what if these beings were more than fictions? This is the arresting and original idea that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters.
Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes and delight in the history of science, this book makes a treasured addition to any bookshelf, stoking curiosity in the evolution of life on Earth.