Explores the science of rocks and fossils, discussing rock types and changes, how fossils form, and fossil dating methods, and looking at the work of paleontologists. Includes a glossary.
Provides an overview of fossils including how they are formed, what they are made of, their historical implications, how they are dated, and how to hunt for them.
In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.
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.
Presents information on fossils, in simple text with illustrations, discussing what they are, how they form, where they can be found, and what they say about the past. www.av2books.com (book code H318392, security question "millions".
A graphic novel introduction to the history of paleontology explores how dinosaur science has evolved over the past 150 years and discusses how new discoveries are shaping what is currently understood about dinosaurs.
In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.
