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Author : Kate McMullan
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0394911504
Describes the work scientists do to find out more about these huge prehistoric animals.
Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780007388943
The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.
Author : Pam Holden
Publisher : Flying Start Books
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781776547920
Have you seen a telescope? What happens when you look through it? In this story, James and Molly used their telescope to help them hunt for dinosaurs. They had to be careful not to go too close to the dinosaurs!
Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681779300
Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher whose life is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, whose skeleton has captivated our collective imaginations for over a century. But that wasn’t all Hatcher discovered. During a now legendary collecting campaign in Wyoming, Hatcher discovered a 66 million-year-old horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, as well as the first scientifically significant set of skeletons from its evolutionary cousin, Triceratops. Refusing to restrict his talents to enormous dinosaurs, he also discovered the first significant sample of mammal teeth from our relatives that lived 66 million years ago. The teeth might have been minute, but this extraordinary discovery filled a key gap in humanity’s own evolutionary history.Nearly one hundred and twenty-five years after Hatcher’s monumental “hunts” ended, acclaimed paleontologist Lowell Dingus invites us to revisit Hatcher’s captivating expeditions and marvel at this real-life Indiana Jones and the vital role he played in our understanding of paleontology.
Author : Steve White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472812841
Congratulations - your application for a Mesozoic hunting licence has been successful! Before you travel back in time and charge headlong into a pack of prehistoric big game, we strongly advise that you read the following guidebook. It will provide you with information crucial to success – and survival! You will learn the basic facts of the geography, climate and environmental conditions of the three periods that make up the exciting Mesozoic era. The book then covers the huge variety of dinosaurs that stalk these times, giving tips on identification, tracking, and the best weapons to bring them down! Let the hunt begin!
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691245607
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.
Author : Mark Norell
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 178097129X
'The Dinosaur Hunters' tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs through the individuals who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge.
Author : Tim Collins
Publisher : The Salariya Book Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781912006670
These hilarious fictional diaries put us inside the heads of hapless figures from history. Meet Roderick – a scrawny, unremarkable teenager keeping a diary of his life in the Middle Ages. When he’s chosen to become a knight on a quest to find a holy relic (the fingers of St Stephen), Roderick is determined to prove his honour and graduate from zero to hero. ‘Get Real’ fact boxes feature throughout, providing historical context and further information, as well as a timeline, historical biographies and a glossary in the end matter.
Author : Paul Mason,Andre Leonard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1541532368
"Take a peak beneath the canopy of prehistoric forests to discover the world of dinosaurs. Spread-by-spread battles pit species against one another in scientifically accurate battles while fact files give report writers the info they need at a glance."--
Author : Jen Green
Publisher : Running Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0762430087
For the child who loves dinosaurs, this book is a veritable passport and travel guide into a lost world adventure. It's got all the interactive elements that delight: flaps to lift, textures to get a feel of the prehistoric world (including a texturized T rex tooth), a compass on the cover, photographs galore, plus stickers, timelines, maps and more. Just when you think you've seen it all, there's a button to push and a secret drawer pops open. Inside, among many other prehistoric wonders, a model dinosaur you put together yourself! Dinosaurs are super-celebrities who never wear out their welcome with kids. The stunning, comprehensive, and fascinating text of this edition easily equals the exciting format, and that's really saying something!
Author : Edwin Harris Colbert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486247015
A survey of the noted paleontologists who have uncovered and studied dinosaur fossils including information on their findings
Author : Lukas Rieppel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674240346
A lively account of the dinosaur’s role in Gilded Age America, examining the connection between business, paleontology, and museums. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America’s Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture. Tracing the entwined relationship of dinosaurs, capitalism, and culture during the Gilded Age, Lukas Rieppel reveals the outsized role these giant reptiles played during one of the most consequential periods in American history. Praise for Assembling the Dinosaur “A penetrating study of legitimacy and capitalism in the realm of fossils.” —Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books “A solid entry into the growing body of literature on Gilded Age American paleontology, but it is particularly valuable for its contribution to enhancing our understanding of how science and its representation during that period were influenced by, and in turn affected, society as a whole. By incorporating cultural, economic, and scientific developments, Rieppel shines new light on the history of both American paleontology and museum exhibition practice.” —Ilja Nieuwland, Science
Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Welbeck Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0233005439
The story of the courageous enthusiasts and paleontologists who discovered the secrets of prehistoric life, published in association with the American Museum of Natural History.
Author : Homer Hickam
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429950048
"A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read."--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy The cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon he will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.
Author : David Sheldon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780802796028
Determined to grow up to be a hunter of dinosaur fossils, Barnum Brown gets an assignment by the American Museum of Natural History and soon is exploring the Badlands of Montana and Canada where he makes the discovery of a lifetime--the very first Tyrannosaurus rex!