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Book Synopsis Discovering Fossil Fishes by : John Maisey
Download or read book Discovering Fossil Fishes written by John Maisey and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishes have a unique evolutionary history that stretches back in time more than 450 million years. They are incredibly ancient-older than the dinosaurs-and include the ancestors of all limbed vertebrates living on land, even humans.In Discovering Fossil Fishes , John Maisey traces the evolution of fishes over the course of nearly half a billion years, describing the discovery of their extraordinary fossil remains and explaining what these ancient animals tell us about our own place in the history of life. Combining current scientific information with entertaining tales about historic and contemporary fieldwork, Maisey brings to life the development of armored fishes, monster sharks, and fishes with arms as he reveals the subtleties of evolution's greatest success story.More abundant and more diverse than their air-breathing cousins, fishes today dominate the seas and freshwaters of Earth. Through outstanding full-color photographs of their fossils and of fossil reconstructions by artists David Miller and Ivy Rutzky, along with informative photographs, charts, diagrams, and drawings, we discover a staggering half-billion-year history in which lies our own watery origins.
Book Synopsis Fossil Fish Found Alive by : Sally M. Walker
Download or read book Fossil Fish Found Alive written by Sally M. Walker and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent research about it.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Fossil Fishes in Scotland Up to 1845 by : Sheila Mahala Andrews
Download or read book The Discovery of Fossil Fishes in Scotland Up to 1845 written by Sheila Mahala Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Inner Fish written by Neil Shubin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Book Synopsis Figuring Out Fossils by : Sally M. Walker
Download or read book Figuring Out Fossils written by Sally M. Walker and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossils give us a window to the past. Water, sediments, and pressure work together over time to preserve the shape of things that lived long ago. Studying these ancient plants and animals tells us more about our own existence. Have you ever searched for fossils? Unearth some in this book.
Download or read book Papers on fossil fishes: 1843 written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fossil Atlas, Fishes by : Karl Albert Frickhinger
Download or read book Fossil Atlas, Fishes written by Karl Albert Frickhinger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fossil Fishes of Southern California by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book Fossil Fishes of Southern California written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rise of Fishes by : John A. Long
Download or read book The Rise of Fishes written by John A. Long and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armored fishes and monster sharks, fishes with arms and fishes that breathe air--these and many other strange creatures are part of the remarkable story told in this book. In The Rise of Fishes, John Long traces the evolutionary history of fishes over the course of 500 million years, describes the discovery of extraordinary fossil remains, and explains the techniques used in their interpretation. Featuring more than 300 color illustrations, the book includes photographs of fossils from around the world as well as the author's dramatic color illustrations of what the fish may have actually looked like. Long tells the story of how these creatures lived and developed and why their rise from the waters of the archaic seas and rivers onto land was so momentous an event in the evolution of life on earth. He combines current scientific information with entertaining stories about his own field work in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Antarctica. Detailed, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, The Rise of Fishes is a book for anyone with an interest in evolution, fossils, or fish.
Book Synopsis The Fossil Fishes of the Miocene of Southern California by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book The Fossil Fishes of the Miocene of Southern California written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coelacanth written by Valerie J. Weber and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics of a fish that is thought to have lived 400 million years ago.
Book Synopsis The Lost World of Fossil Lake by : Lance Grande
Download or read book The Lost World of Fossil Lake written by Lance Grande and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than fifty million years ago, it was a subtropical lake, surrounded by volcanoes and forests and teeming with life. Buried within the sun-baked limestone is spectacular evidence of the lush vegetation and plentiful fauna of the ancient past, a transitional ecosystem giving us clues to how North America recovered from a great extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs and the majority of all species on the planet. Paleontologists have been conducting excavations at Fossil Butte for more than 150 years, and with The Lost World of Fossil Lake, one of the world’s leading experts on the fossils from this spectacular locality takes readers on a fascinating journey through the history of the discovery and exploration of the site. Deftly mixing incredible color photographs of the remarkable fossils uncovered at the site with an explanation of their evolutionary significance, Grande presents an unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of the site, its treasures, and what we’ve learned from them. Grande presents a broad range of fossilized organisms from Fossil Lake—from single-celled algae to palm trees to crocodiles—and together they make this long-extinct community come to life in all its diversity and splendor. A field guide and atlas round out the book, enabling readers to identify and classify the majority of the known fossils from the site. Lavishly produced in full color, The Lost World of Fossil Lake is a stunning reminder of the intellectual and physical beauty of scientific investigation—and a breathtaking window onto our planet’s long-lost past.
Download or read book Swimming in Stone written by John A. Long and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When David Attenborough filmed his ground-breaking series Life on Earth in 1978, he chose one place in the world to demonstrate the early evolution of fishes: Gogo. Gogo, in the wild Kimberly district of Western Australia, is one of the world's most significant fossil sites because it shows 375 million-year old fishes preserved in stunning three-dimensional preservation. These fossils provide a rare window into the anatomy of primitive fishes at the critical stage when fishes were starting to evolve into the first land animals the line ultimately leading to humans. Yet, despite being such an important fossil site, it has had a mysterious and checkered history of discovery. Written by paleontologist John Long, who has spent over 20 years searching and working the Gogo sites, Swimming in Stone tells the amazing stories of the people who discovered the fossils, the development of the chemical preparation methods that freed the old bones from their rocky tombs, and how the flood of new da
Download or read book Mystery Fish written by Sally M. Walker and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, off the coast of South Africa, a woman found a strange blue fish with four stubby fins, pointed spines, and a funny looking tail—it was a coelacanth! Until that very moment, the world had believed that coelacanths were extinct. Suddenly, scientists around the world were excited—could more of these unusual creatures be found and studied? Discover how scientists worked to solve the mystery of these extraordinary fish.
Book Synopsis Fossil Fishes of Southern California by : David Starr Jordan
Download or read book Fossil Fishes of Southern California written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guide to the Collection of Fossil Fishes in the Department of Geology and Paleontology by : Museum (Natural History) Dept of Geolo
Download or read book Guide to the Collection of Fossil Fishes in the Department of Geology and Paleontology written by Museum (Natural History) Dept of Geolo and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gogo Fish! written by John A. Long and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the discovery, naming and campaign to use the Gogo fish as WA's fossil emblem. A book for primary and secondary students. Honour Book, CBC Children's Book of the Year Awards 2005. Full colour picture book.
