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Woolly mammoth: life, death, and rediscovery (Scholastic Inc Reference Non-Fiction)
By Inc. Staff Scholastic, Windsor Chorlton. 2001
Discusses the first recovery of a complete adult woolly mammoth and the difficulties of excavating it from Siberia. Explains what…
scientists have learned about where these giant plant eaters lived, how they spent their days, and why the species became extinct. For grades 4-7. 2001Dinosaur parents, dinosaur young: uncovering the mystery of dinosaur families
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Paul Carrick, Bruce Shillinglaw. 2001
Explains how scientists form theories about the way dinosaur parents behaved with their hatchlings. Tells how new fossil discoveries lead…
to identifying new species that may cause scientists to change their ideas about dinosaur family life. For grades 3-6. 2001Fossil fish found alive: discovering the coelacanth (Nonfiction - Grades 4-8)
By Sally M Walker, Sally M. Walker. 2002
Describes scientists' excitement when a specimen of fish thought to be extinct was discovered in a trawler's catch off the…
South African coast in 1938. Discusses subsequent searches for the elusive deep-water coelacanth and what has been learned about it through scientific research. For grades 5-8. 2002Stone girl, bone girl: the story of Mary Anning (Orchard HC Picture Books)
By Laurence Anholt, Sheila Moxley. 1999
A brief biography of a young English fossil hunter in the early 1800s. Describes how Mary Anning learns about treasures…
in the rocks and how at age twelve she makes an important scientific discovery--bones of a sea monster that are 165 million years old. For grades K-3. 1998Meteorite!: the last days of the dinosaurs (A Turnstone ocean explorer book)
By Richard Norris. 2000
A scientist uncovers evidence that a significant meteorite plunged to Earth in prehistoric times. It had a huge impact on…
fauna and flora and may have caused mass extinction of animal life--including the dinosaurs. For grades 5-8. 2000Profiles eight pioneers in the study of dinosaurs and explains how scientific knowledge is cumulative. Clinton notes that dinosaurs were…
unknown until 1824 when Georges Cuvier identified the first dinosaur bone, describing it as belonging to a whale-sized lizard. Now three hundred kinds of dinosaurs are known to vertebrate paleontologists. For junior and senior high readersSound the jubilee: And Other Prehistoric Creatures
By Sandra Forrester, Jan Pienkowski. 1995
Eleven-year-old Maddie, who works in the big house on River Bend Plantation in North Carolina, longs for freedom. As the…
Civil War approaches and their mistress moves to her summer home on Nags Head, Maddie's family gets their chance at freedom when the bluecoats turn nearby Roanoke Island into an escaped-slave haven. For grades 6-9Fossil Whisperer, The: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur
By Helaine Becker, Sandra Dumais. 2022
A captivating look at the life of a modern-day fossil hunter who makes the find of a lifetime. Wendy has…
an eye for the unusual and is skilled at finding things that others don't see. On a middle school field trip, she spots one of those unusual things --- it's fossilized coral 100 million years old! Wendy's thrilled! And soon, she gets hooked on hunting fossils. She decides to turn her passion into her career and becomes known as the “fossil whisperer” around the world. But it's close to home where she makes her most amazing find: Wendiceratops! Make no bones about it, a dinosaur species named after you is way cool! Kids will be wondering: what might be buried where I live?The origin of humankind (Science masters series)
By Richard Leakey, Richard E Leakey. 1994
The author traces the history of evolution theories and draws on his scientific analysis of human fossils to explain human…
origins. Leakey's position is that in spite of what certain evolutionary events suggest, it is social behavior, not mechanical devices like tools, that drives the evolutionary forceWhat happened to the dinosaurs? (A Let's read-and-find-out science book)
By Marc Simont, Franklyn M. Branley, Franklyn Mansfield Branley. 1989
After living on earth for 140 million years, the dinosaurs all disappeared. Scientists are not certain why, but there are…
many theories. (A theory is an idea, or possible explanation.) This book discusses several of these theories. For grades K-3. 1989Wonderful life: the Burgess Shale and the nature of history
By Stephen Jay Gould. 1990
Strange creatures once lived in an ancient sea that formed the Burgess Shale, a limestone quarry high in the Canadian…
Rockies. Gould's account of the 1909 discovery of the Burgess fossils and their incorrect classification forms one part of this book; another deals with the evolution of the creatures that survived the fossils' era, and their place in the history of lifeDinosaur Mountain: graveyard of the past
By Caroline Arnold, Richard Hewett. 1989
Fossils are traces or remains of ancient life. People who study them are called paleontologists, and they search for clues…
to what life was like long ago. The author describes the work of paleontologists in learning about dinosaurs, especially the discoveries made at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. For grades 4-7 and older readersWild new world: The epic story of animals and people in america
By Dan Flores. 2022
In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining…
flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness. Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America-a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America's animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in AmericaPrehistoric: Dinosaurs, Megalodons, and Other Fascinating Creatures of the Deep Past
By Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld, Julius Csotonyi. 2019
A look at the history of life on Earth starts in the present and goes back hundreds of millions of…
years to the Ediacaran Period, profiling the creatures that existed at each time. For grades 2-4. 2019Dinosaurs in the attic: an excursion into the American Museum of Natural History
By Douglas J Preston. 1986
Somewhat whimsical history of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History by a longtime museum staffer. No more than two percent…
of the museum's collection is on exhibit on its 700,000 square feet of floor space; the rest is squirreled away in twenty-three interconnected buildings. Preston takes us on a grand tour of its library of bones, labs, vaults, corridors, and storage rooms, reporting on the museum's mind-boggling treasuresCambrian ocean world: Ancient sea life of north america (Life of the Past)
By John Foster. 2022
This volume, aimed at the general audience, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than…
500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every modern group of animals appeared. Although life had been around for more than 2 million millennia, Cambrian rocks preserve the record of the first appearance of complex animals with eyes, protective skeletons, antennae, and complex ecologies. Grazing, predation, and multi-tiered ecosystems with animals living in, on, or above the sea floor became common. The cascade of interaction led to an ever-increasing diversification of animal body types. By the end of the period, the ancestors of sponges, corals, jellyfish, worms, mollusks, brachiopods, arthropods, echinoderms, and vertebrates were all in place. The evidence of this Cambrian "explosion" is preserved in rocks all over the world, including North America, where the seemingly strange animals of the period are preserved in exquisite detail in deposits such as the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Cambrian Ocean World tells the story of what is, for us, the most important period in our planet's long historyMammoths on the move
By Lisa Wheeler, Kurt Cyrus. 2006
Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging…
rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. The author draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth. For grades K-3Dark matter and the dinosaurs: the astounding interconnectedness of the universe
By Lisa Randall. 2015
Physicist examines the nature of dark matter in the universe and hypothesizes its role in the extinction of dinosaurs sixty-six…
million years ago. Explores scientific understandings of the universe, Milky Way, solar system, and conditions for a habitable Earth in the early twenty-first century. 2015Recounts the rivalry between paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope (1840-1897) and Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899). Discusses their ambitions, major scientific discoveries,…
and errors they made--such as incorrectly reconstructing bones--in their rush for fame. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2012Le présent du passé: l'actualité de l'histoire de l'homme (Poches Odile Jacob)
By Yves Coppens. 2011
"Qui est l'ancêtre direct du genre humain ? En quoi la découverte de Lucy est-elle fondamentale ? Comment les premiers…
hominidés ont-ils quitté l'Afrique ? Qui étaient donc les petits hommes de Flores ? De quand dater les premiers peuplements de Chine ? Quel est le véritable inventeur du feu ? À toutes ces grandes questions, Yves Coppens, dans ce livre qui lui ressemble, à la fois profond et plein d'humour, donne des réponses tout à fait nouvelles.Partant des origines de l'homme, il nous raconte aussi la romanisation de la Gaule, l'industrie du sel ou encore la culture viking et nous fait prendre ainsi conscience de l'actualité étonnante de ce passé dont nous sommes tous issus." -- 4e de couv