Provides an introduction to people who work in museums, describing the duties and responsibilities of scientists, curators, and other employees, and providing facts and information about museums.
Explores the scientific rivalry of Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh, and how the work produced by this rivalry influenced the emerging field of paleontology.
An account of the English girl who, at age twelve, discovered the first complete icthyosaurus skeleton, and who continued to collect and study dinosaur fossils throughout her life.
Recounts the life and fossil discoveries of Barnum Brown, the paleontologist who, in 1908, discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton that had ever been found.
Tells the story of two nineteenth-century paleontologists who used questionable tactics as they tried to outdo each other in collecting dinosaur bones.
