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Author : Edwin Harris Colbert
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Lisa Murphy-Lamb
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551539829
A collection of stories about dinosaur hunters and their incredible finds.
Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Thom Holmes,Laurie Holmes
Publisher : Enslow Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0766020789
Outlines several expeditions by paleontologists hunting for information about dinosaurs in America, Africa, Canada, Patagonia, and elsewhere.
Author : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Roger Cohen
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 1402757069
Looks at the journeys of Roy Chapman Andrews who, in the early twentieth-century, led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History in search of dinosaur fossils, facing dangers such as pythons, wild dogs, marauding bandits, sandstorms, and corrupt officials.
Author : Mark Norell
Publisher : Carlton Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Lowell Dingus
Publisher : Welbeck Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Edward Close
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477715109
It has been nearly 200 years since the first dinosaur remains were found in southern England, and in that time these fascinating creatures from long ago have lost none of their hold on our imagination. This book explores the history of dinosaurs and their time on earth. A detailed timeline traces the archaeological discoveries that inform todays study of prehistoric life, and clear, informative illustrations and diagrams explore different kinds of dinosaurs, their appearance and scale, habitats and intellect, and the fossils they left behind.
Author : Shelley Emling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780230100978
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the tongue-twister, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore." She attracted the attention of fossil collectors and eventually the scientific world. Once news of the fossils reached the halls of academia, it became impossible to ignore the truth. Mary's peculiar finds helped lay the groundwork for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, laid out in his On the Origin of Species. Darwin drew on Mary's fossilized creatures as irrefutable evidence that life in the past was nothing like life in the present. A story worthy of Dickens, The Fossil Hunter chronicles the life of this young girl, with dirt under her fingernails and not a shilling to buy dinner, who became a world-renowned paleontologist. Dickens himself said of Mary: "The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it." Here at last, Shelley Emling returns Mary Anning, of whom Stephen J. Gould remarked, is "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology," to her deserved place in history.
Author : Deborah Cadbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1119739589
Author : Nancy Honovich
Publisher : becker&mayer! kids
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780760355411
Dinosaurs may be gone, but we can learn from their fossils! Ultimate Expeditions: Dinosaur Hunters gives you facts, and even lets you make 3D models of 8 dinos. Though dinosaurs are long extinct, their bones can be used to piece together the puzzle of their past. Fossil hunter Jackson Foster has just returned from a three-month expedition uncovering the remains of dinosaurs that roamed across North America millions of years ago, and he has a fascinating tale to tell. From the massive and toothy Tyrannosaurus rex to the speedy Coelophysis that traveled in packs, Ultimate Expeditions: Dinosaur Hunter brings to life eight incredible creatures, with illustrations, maps, fossil finds, and facts about when, where, and how they lived. Accompany Foster on his thrilling adventures, and take a trip beyond the page and back to a time when animals were larger than elephants, some weighing more than 88,000 pounds! Follow the assembly instructions to create your own fierce 3-D models of each dinosaur.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Kate McMullan
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN : 0394911504
Describes the work scientists do to find out more about these huge prehistoric animals.
Author : David Hill
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0143773224
The Remarkable true story of science superstar Joan Wiffen, whose fossil discoveries proved that dinosaurs lived in ancient New Zealand. Once there was a clever girl who liked searching for interesting things on the ground. She wanted to know why shells could be found in rocks so far away from the sea. But her father thought education was no use to a girl, so Joan had to leave school. Many years later, she bought an old map. To her amazement, she saw that it marked a treasure hoard. Not of gold and jewels, but of dinosaur bones. Nobody had ever found dinosaur fossils in New Zealand before - in fact, top scientists had said it was impossible. But Joan was intrigued. She decided to learn everything she could about palaeontology and hunt these dinosaur fossils. This is the fifth picture book in an acclaimed series of true stories about the lives of famous Kiwi written by David Hill and magnificently illustrated by Phoebe Morris.