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Author : Martin Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780952211808
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Fossil Hunting on Dinosaur Island written by Martin Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Blakesley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995488243
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (882 download)
Download or read book The Island Where Dinosaurs Roamed written by David Blakesley and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chance discovery of a fossil bone changes Sam's life. Sam is convinced it belonged to a dinosaur and is eager to find more. He persuades his Mum to spend their summer holiday on the Scottish Isle of Skye - the 'Dinosaur Island'. Here he encounters charismatic dinosaur hunter Dugie and finds his first real friend in Caitlin, who loves nature as much as he does. Sam and Caitlin set out to make the next big dinosaur discovery on Skye, but not everything goes according to plan... "A touching story of growing up, making friends, and hunting for dinosaurs. Read along as young Sam sets off to Dinosaur Island, to find his treasure. Put yourself in his boots, because there is a real Dinosaur Island in Scotland: the Isle of Skye, where many dinosaur footprints and bones have been found recently. Maybe this book will inspire you to make the next great discovery?" Steve Brusatte, University of Edinburgh palaeontologist and best selling author of 'The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs'
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245614
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Fossil Legends of the First Americans written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.
Author : David B. Weishampel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dinosaurs of the East Coast written by David B. Weishampel and published by . This book was released on 1996-05-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great dinosaur bonebeds of the American and Canadian West are world famous for spectacular fossil yields. But the eastern U.S. and maritime Canada have been equally inportant to the study of these extraordinary creatures. Dinosaurs of the East Coast combines science, history, and modern reporting to offer a new look at an always fascinating subject. 29 line, 110 halftone illustrations.
Author : Rachel C. Benton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253016088
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The White River Badlands written by Rachel C. Benton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Author : Thom Holmes
Publisher : Julian Messner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fossil Feud written by Thom Holmes and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the life stories of two nineteenth-century American dinosaur paleontologists and gives details of the bitter feud that existed between them.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245606
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The First Fossil Hunters written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants—these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? 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. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact—in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans. As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground. Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.
Author : Katherine L. Rogers
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sternberg Fossil Hunters written by Katherine L. Rogers and published by Mountain Press Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science meets the Great Outdoors in this chronicle of the fossil-hunting Sternbergs, father and sons who spanned the decades and the New World in their quest to bring to light the relics of the Earth's ancient flora and fauna.
Author : Sue L. Hamilton
Publisher : A & D Xtreme
ISBN 13 : 9781532112959
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Fossil Hunters written by Sue L. Hamilton and published by A & D Xtreme. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and exciting photographs place reluctant readers into the world of fossil hunting. This book includes the types of fossils paleontologists find as well as tips for distinguishing between rock and fossil. The purpose and careers of professional hunters are also explained. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 0822567520
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book The Search for Antarctic Dinosaurs written by Sally M. Walker and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes William Hammer's discovery of the first dinosaur remains--190-million-year-old fossils--found atop a mountain in Antarctica. Reprint.
Author : Chester Albert Reeds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Romance of Fossil Hunting written by Chester Albert Reeds and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402757068
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Danger in the Desert written by Roger Cohen and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the journeys of Roy Chapman Andrews who, in the early twentieth-century, led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History in search of dinosaur fossils, facing dangers such as pythons, wild dogs, marauding bandits, sandstorms, and corrupt officials.
Author : Kelly Wittmann
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1538208156
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Bone Wars written by Kelly Wittmann and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh were 19th-century paleontologists whose friendship couldnt withstand their professional rivalry. Their competitive natures led to the frenzied unearthing of hundreds of dinosaur fossils across North America, many of which can still be seen in museums around the world. The captivating tale of these scientists unfolds in this absorbing book, which also includes a timeline, sidebars, and fact boxes offering much information about paleontology, dinosaurs, and excavations as well as photographs and images to further elucidate essential science concepts.
Author : Edwin Harris Colbert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486247014
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries written by Edwin Harris Colbert and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the noted paleontologists who have uncovered and studied dinosaur fossils including information on their findings
Author : P. J. Whybrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521663016
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Travels with the Fossil Hunters written by P. J. Whybrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travels with the Fossil Hunters tells twelve stories of expeditions to remote parts of the world in search of diverse fossils such as dinosaurs and human ancestors. Palaeontologists relate the problems and curiosities they encounter whilst working in extreme conditions, from the deserts of the Sahara and Yemen to the frozen wastes of Antarctica, from the mountains of India to the forests of Latvia. They tell us what field expeditions are really like: dodging bullets in West Africa or rabid dogs in Pakistan, surviving yak-butter tea in Tibet or raw fish in China. Along the way they also describe the palaeontology and geology of the countries they visit and the scientific reasons for their expeditions. Copiously illustrated with spectacular colour photographs and with a foreword from David Attenborough and an introduction from Richard Fortey, this fascinating book will appeal to anyone interested in travelling and fossils, amateurs and professionals alike.
Author : Richard Spilsbury
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1515782603
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Fossil Hunters written by Richard Spilsbury and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living beings have roamed our planet for millions of years. Many species from long ago have since become extinct, which doesn't allow us to observe them today. However, thanks to the adventurous work of some amazing fossil hunters we can study the fossils of these ancient species. Learn all about archaeologists and their incredible discoveries from tiny insects to giant sharks.
Author : Tea Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1489299602
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (892 download)
Download or read book The Fossil Hunter written by Tea Cooper and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fossil discovered at London's Natural History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and dark secrets in this compelling historical mystery. The Hunter Valley 1847 The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is running through the bush as a monster chases her - but no one believes her story. In a bid to curb Mellie's overactive imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. Anthea is an amateur palaeontologist with a dream. She is convinced she will one day find proof the great sea dragons - the ichthyosaur and the plesiosaur - swam in the vast inland sea that millions of years ago covered her property at Bow Wow Gorge. Soon, Mellie shares that dream for she loves fossil hunting too... 1919 When Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the battlefields of World War I with the intention of making her peace with her father and commemorating the death of her two younger brothers in the trenches, her reception is not as she had hoped. Looking for distraction, she finds a connection between a fossil at London's Natural History museum and her brothers which leads her to Bow Wow Gorge. But the gorge has a sinister reputation - 70 years ago people disappeared. So when PJ uncovers some unexpected remains, it seems as if the past is reaching into the present and she becomes determined to discover what really happened all that time ago...
