... Cope or Marsh's fossil hunting expeditions, but in 1879 Congress decreed that they be consolidated into a single organisation: the US Geological Survey (USGS), headed by John Wesley Powell, a well-respected explorer of the West.
Pickrell also turns his journalistic eye toward the stories behind the latest discoveries, investigating the role of the Chinese black market in trading fossils, the controversies among various dinosaur hunters, the interference of national ...
JOHN PICKRELL is an awardwinning journalist and the editor of Australian Geographic magazine. He has worked in London, Washington, DC and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos.
Describes the flying cousins of dinosaurs known as pterosaurs.
Introduces various winged creatures that lived in the time of the dinosaurs.
Provides die-cut paper parts for making eight different flying dinosaurs, and briefly summarizes what is known about these dinosaurs and how they lived
Introduces various winged creatures that lived in the time of the dinosaurs.