Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886655761
Category : Fossils
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Be a fossil detective
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780886655761
Category : Fossils
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Fossil Detective
Author: Joyce PopePublisher: Troll Communications
ISBN: 9780816727827
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Discusses the nature and origin of fossils, the collection and study of them, and what they can tell us about creatures of the past.
Be a Fossil Detective
Author: Dougal DixonPublisher: Heinemann Young Books
ISBN: 9780333470930
Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
The Fossil Detectives
Author: Douglas PalmerPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 140702499X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Fossils provide us with a tantalizing glimpse of Britain's prehistoric past and hold the key to unlocking the secrets of life's history and evolution. Since the appearance of primitive organisms in Britain more than a billion years ago, oceans, deserts, swamps and vast mountains have come and gone in our corner of western Europe; forests of long-extinct trees, flowers and grasses have covered the land, and dinosaurs and other strange creatures have roamed across it. How do we know? The evidence is all around us - in the rocks and fossils that lie beneath the landscape. In this highly informative and practical book, which accompanies the BBC series, presenter Hermione Cockburn and renowned palaeontologist Douglas Palmer take an in-depth look at the most exciting fossil stories from around the country. When and why were dinosaur fossils first discovered in Britain? How was the biggest fish ever to have swum in the sea unearthed near Peterborough? What do modern medical techniques have to offer fossil hunters? Packed with colour photographs and illustrations, Fossils Detectives is full of surprising facts and features. And for those who want to try their hand at some fossil detecting of their own, the book includes an extensive regional gazetteer of fossil-hunting sites and places to visit, and guidance on identifying your fossil finds. Get ready for some time travel around Britain, with the Fossil Detectives!
Be a Fossil Detective
Author: Dougal DixonPublisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517680223
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
The exciting world of fossils is presented in an easy-to-read, full-color book. Innovative projects and puzzles plus an informative text teach youngsters about this fascinating topic while entertaining.
Fossil Detective
Author: Fossil Detectives
Author: Peter SheldonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution (Biology)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Be a Dinosaur Detective
Author: Dougal DixonPublisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780822508946
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Explores what dinosaurs were like and how they lived based on evidence and clues found in fossils. Includes related questions, instructions for making dinosaur models, and other activities.
The First Fossil Hunters
Author: Adrienne MayorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691245606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Dino Detective In Training
Author: Tracey TurnerPublisher: Kingfisher
ISBN: 9780753476376
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Learn how to become a paleontologist in this exciting title! Packed with bitesize information and fun facts about the life of dinosaurs, Dino Detective in Training will tell you all about dinosaur habitats, how they become extinct, and where you can find fossils.