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1) Fossil
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Packed with striking photography, Eyewitness Fossil explores the creatures and plants that lived long ago. Become an eyewitness to the natural treasures found in rocks in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of all things fossils. Children will be mesmerized by the bones, teeth, and plants from long ago that have all been turned to rock. This beautifully illustrated guide for kids aged 9+ gives an insight into how...
Author
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 sound disc (ca. 16 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (unpaged : col. ill. ; 24 cm.)
Language
English
Description
With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Barner shakes the dust off the bones found in museums to bring dinosaurs back to life.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...
Author
Series
Ivy + Bean volume 3
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Fountas & Pinnell
M
Physical Desc
114 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Everyone in second grade seems set on breaking a world record and friends Ivy and Bean are no exception, deciding to become the youngest people ever to discover a dinosaur skeleton.
8) Fossils
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Blue-blooded crabs? Platypus that sting? One-hundred-year old reptiles? Meet some of nature's longest-surviving species! Discover the stories of these incredible animals and find out how they help scientists piece together evolutionary history"--
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spectacular fossil finds make today's headlines; new technology unlocks secrets of skeletons unearthed a hundred years ago. Still, evolution is often poorly represented by the media and misunderstood by the public. A potent antidote to pseudoscience, Written in Stone is an engrossing history of evolutionary discovery for anyone who has marveled at the variety and richness of life.
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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. 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...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
94 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Unearth the treasures from the prehistoric world underneath your feet. From glittering ammonites to razor-sharp dinosaur claws and delicate leaf impressions, uncover our world's prehistoric past through the incredible fossils left behind. Arranged by plant or animal type, there are profiles of 50 key fossils, including well-loved favorites, such as Triceratops, and more curious remains, such as fossil fish teeth. Learn all about how fossils form,...
Author
Series
FunJungle volume 6
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The local police prove unhelpful when a 500-pound dinosaur skull vanishes from a secret excavation on Sage's family's ranch, so Teddy and his friends conduct their own investigation.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from Michener's other novels are collected in this single volume in which he re-creates the planet Earth as it existed millions of years ago when dinosaurs flourished, describes the vast forces that created the geological wonders we know today, and explains how in the millennia-old struggle for survival, some species endured and evolved while others disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Butterflies are as light as a feather and as old as the dinosaurs. Wherever dinosaurs roamed, butterflies were not far behind. Long after the dinosaurs disappeared, butterflies are still bringing joy and beauty to our world.
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