Book Description
Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.
Author : Aliki
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Paleontology
ISBN : 9781531190132
Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.
Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : LernerClassroom
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467707910
This book describes the process through which fossils are created, and what we can learn from them.
Author : Yu-Ri Kim
Publisher : Big and SMALL
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1925186164
Describes fossils, how they were made, and what qualifies as a fossil.
Author : Kate Waters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0399543392
Dig into this photo-packed Penguin-Smithsonian book about fossils—and find out what was going on in our world. Aren't you curious about what Earth was like long ago? What creatures lived before us? What happened to the dinosaurs? Curious about Fossils explains why and where fossils form and looks at the colorful lives and important discoveries of some of the great early fossil hunters and collectors, including Mary Anning who unearthed the first ichthyosaur skeleton; Richard Owen who coined the word dinosaur; and Barnum Brown, who discovered the first remains of a T-rex. Then the adventure continues into modern times, where scientists on fossil hunts in places like North Dakota's Hell Creek Formation use computers and other technology to dig up the fossilized bones, teeth, and even poop that provide clues to the past. A must read for every kid who's ever collected a shark tooth or trilobite!
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 891 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231543166
Donald R. Prothero’s Evolution is an entertaining and rigorous history of the transitional forms and series found in the fossil record. Its engaging narrative of scientific discovery and well-grounded analysis has led to the book’s widespread adoption in courses that teach the nature and value of fossil evidence for evolution. Evolution tackles systematics and cladistics, rock dating, neo-Darwinism, and macroevolution. It includes extensive coverage of the primordial soup, invertebrate transitions, the development of the backbone, the reign of the dinosaurs, and the transformation from early hominid to modern human. The book also details the many alleged “missing links” in the fossil record, including some of the most recent discoveries that flesh out the fossil timeline and the evolutionary process. In this second edition, Prothero describes new transitional fossils from various periods, vividly depicting such bizarre creatures as the Odontochelys, or the “turtle on the half shell”; fossil snakes with legs; and the “Frogamander,” a new example of amphibian transition. Prothero’s discussion of intelligent design arguments includes more historical examples and careful examination of the “experiments” and observations that are exploited by creationists seeking to undermine sound science education. With new perspectives, Prothero reframes creationism as a case study in denialism and pseudoscience rather than a field with its own intellectual dynamism. The first edition was hailed as an exemplary exploration of the fossil evidence for evolution, and this second edition will be welcome in the libraries of scholars, teachers, and general readers who stand up for sound science in this post-truth era.
Author : Aliki
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1990-03
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 9780812482942
Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science Stage 2.
Author : Claire Ewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0802788904
Upon finding a special stone, a child imagines the life of a pterosaur, the ancient flying reptile that lived, died, and was fossilized into that stone, in a story which includes facts about fossils and how they are formed.
Author : Dean R. Lomax
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231552084
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures—how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and breathed? From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth’s past. Locked in Time showcases fifty of the most astonishing fossils ever found, brought together in five fascinating chapters that offer an unprecedented glimpse at the real-life behaviors of prehistoric animals. Dean R. Lomax examines the extraordinary direct evidence of fossils captured in the midst of everyday action, such as dinosaurs sitting on their eggs like birds, Jurassic flies preserved while mating, a T. rex infected by parasites. Each fossil, he reveals, tells a unique story about prehistoric life. Many recall behaviors typical of animals familiar to us today, evoking the chain of evolution that links all living things to their distant ancestors. Locked in Time allows us to see that fossils are not just inanimate objects: they can record the life stories of creatures as fully alive as any today. Striking and scientifically rigorous illustrations by renowned paleoartist Bob Nicholls bring these breathtaking moments to life.
Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1988-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064450783
How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago.
Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1985-10-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064450201
Dinosaurs are extinct now, but you can visit dinosaur skeletons in a museum. There you will meet Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Diplodocus and learn how they ruled the earth millions of years ago. You'll see dinosaurs with over 1,000 teeth, dinosaurs who could swim, meat-eaters and plant-eaters. And, of course, you'll meet the king of all dinosaurs, the gigantic Tyrannosaurus rex.