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The Fossil Hunter

Author : Shelley Emling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 023010097X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Fossil Hunter written by Shelley Emling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the tongue-twister, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore." She attracted the attention of fossil collectors and eventually the scientific world. Once news of the fossils reached the halls of academia, it became impossible to ignore the truth. Mary's peculiar finds helped lay the groundwork for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, laid out in his On the Origin of Species. Darwin drew on Mary's fossilized creatures as irrefutable evidence that life in the past was nothing like life in the present. A story worthy of Dickens, The Fossil Hunter chronicles the life of this young girl, with dirt under her fingernails and not a shilling to buy dinner, who became a world-renowned paleontologist. Dickens himself said of Mary: "The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it." 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.

Fossil Hunting Notebook

Author : Jonathan Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781796225112
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Fossil Hunting Notebook written by Jonathan Grimes and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're looking for a fun and quirky gift for the fossil hunter and paleontologist of ages, then this Fossil Hunter Notebook is a fun idea.Showing an Annomite image and saying 'Fossil Hunter Notebook', it's a fun gift idea for Christmas, birthdays or just a quirky gift idea. A fun notebook for those that are into fossils and paleontology

The Dinosaur Artist

Author : Paige Williams
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316382507
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Dinosaur Artist written by Paige Williams and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.

Your Inner Fish

Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377164
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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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.

The Fossil Book

Author : Patricia Vickers Rich
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486838552
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book The Fossil Book written by Patricia Vickers Rich and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanded edition of definitive guide for professionals and amateurs presents valuable information about finding, preserving, and studying fossils. Over 1,500 drawings and photographs. "Readable . . . and remarkably comprehensive." — Chicago Sunday Tribune.

The Lost World of Fossil Lake

Author : Lance Grande
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922960
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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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.

Some Assembly Required

Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101871342
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Some Assembly Required written by Neil Shubin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting and accessible new view of the evolution of human and animal life on Earth. From the author of national bestseller, Your Inner Fish, this extraordinary journey of discovery spans centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity. “Fossils, DNA, scientists with a penchant for suits of armor—what’s not to love?”—BBC Wildlife Magazine Over billions of years, ancient fish evolved to walk on land, reptiles transformed into birds that fly, and apelike primates evolved into humans that walk on two legs, talk, and write. For more than a century, paleontologists have traveled the globe to find fossils that show how such changes have happened. We have now arrived at a remarkable moment—prehistoric fossils coupled with new DNA technology have given us the tools to answer some of the basic questions of our existence: How do big changes in evolution happen? Is our presence on Earth the product of mere chance? This new science reveals a multibillion-year evolutionary history filled with twists and turns, trial and error, accident and invention. In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, as explorers and scientists seek to understand the origins of life's immense diversity.

The Life of a Fossil Hunter

Author : Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Fossil Hunter written by Charles Hazelius Sternberg and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals

Author : Jon Erickson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143810961X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals by : Jon Erickson

Download or read book An Introduction to Fossils and Minerals written by Jon Erickson and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history and explanation of the development of Earth as revealed through its rocks, minerals, fossils, precious metals and more.

Fossil Hunting Rocks!

Author : Hobby Notebooks
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727436044
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Fossil Hunting Rocks! written by Hobby Notebooks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Premium Quality Diary Journal Notebook

Curious About Fossils

Author : Kate Waters
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399543392
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Curious About Fossils written by Kate Waters and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!

DK Eyewitness Books: Fossil

Author : Paul Taylor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756667933
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness Books: Fossil written by Paul Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an original and exciting new look at fossils - the remains of long-vanished animals and plants. Stunning real-life photographs of the spectacular remains of ancient lives offer a unique "eyewitness" view of what fossils are, how they were formed, and how they lived millions of years ago. See pearls that are 50 million years old, a dinosaur''s toe, a troublesome "snake" that was turned to stone, a fossilized human being, and a snail made of precious stones. Learn howfossils are formed, how trilobites have been preserved for 590 million years, where to look for a belemnite, and how fossils helped the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Discover which are the most precious fossils in the world, where ammonites lived, how big mammoths were, what a devil's toenail looks like, and much, much more.

The Dinosaur Hunter

Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429950048
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Dinosaur Hunter written by Homer Hickam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read."--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy The cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon he will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.

Kansas Geology

Author : Rex Buchanan
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Kansas Geology written by Rex Buchanan and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated nontechnical survey of the state's geological landforms and features.

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Author : Richard Conniff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393341321
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth written by Richard Conniff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conniff tells the story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth.

Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook

Author : Workman Publishing
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 152350546X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook written by Workman Publishing and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the revolutionary science study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest. Everything You Need to Ace Science . . . takes readers from scientific investigation and the engineering design process to the Periodic Table; forces and motion; forms of energy; outer space and the solar system; to earth sciences, biology, body systems, ecology, and more. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK™ series is built on a simple and irresistible conceit—borrowing the notes from the smartest kid in class. There are five books in all, and each is the only book you need for each main subject taught in middle school: Math, Science, American History, English Language Arts, and World History. Inside the reader will find every subject’s key concepts, easily digested and summarized: Critical ideas highlighted in neon colors. Definitions explained. Doodles that illuminate tricky concepts in marker. Mnemonics for memorable shortcuts. And quizzes to recap it all. The BIG FAT NOTEBOOKS meet Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state history standards, and are vetted by National and State Teacher of the Year Award–winning teachers. They make learning fun, and are the perfect next step for every kid who grew up on Brain Quest.

The Ghost of Fossil Glen

Author : Cynthia DeFelice
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429930535
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost of Fossil Glen written by Cynthia DeFelice and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From beloved author Cynthia DeFelice, The Ghost of Fossil Glen marks the first installment in this gripping middle grade series featuring sixth-grader and ghost magnet Allie Nichols, who solves mysteries with the help of her friend Dub. Allie Nichols knows she's being pursued by a ghost. But her friend Karen calls her a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." It is Allie's old pal Dub who listens eagerly as Allie tells him about a voice that guides her safely down a steep cliff side, the face in her mind's eye of a girl who begs "Help me," and a terrible nightmare in which that girl falls to her death. Who is the girl? Is she the ghost? And what does the ghost want from Allie? As Allie discovers that her role is to avenge a murder, she also learns something about friendship, false and true, in this chilling tale from bestselling author Cynthia DeFelice.