The Magic Fossil

The Magic Fossil
Title The Magic Fossil PDF eBook
Author M. J. Misra
Publisher Egmont UK Limited
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Adventure stories
ISBN 9781405258777

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Max is dinosaur mad. He knows everything about them, and he would do anything to meet one. His wish is about to come true! When Max finds a fossil on the local beach and traces his finger over the spiral pattern on its shell...whoosh...he finds himself in an incredible land full of dinosaurs! There, Max meets a new friend called Fern who needs his help with a baby dinosaur, Cory, who has lost his mother. Can Max help to save Cory...or will he lead them all into danger?

Fossil Legends of the First Americans

Fossil Legends of the First Americans
Title Fossil Legends of the First Americans PDF eBook
Author Adrienne Mayor
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 489
Release 2013-10-24
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1400849314

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The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.

Fossil by Fossil

Fossil by Fossil
Title Fossil by Fossil PDF eBook
Author Sara Levine
Publisher Millbrook Press
Pages 38
Release 2018
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1467794899

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What kind of dinosaur had a bony ridge that rose up from the back of its skull and three horns poking up from the front? A triceratops! This lively picture book will keep readers guessing as they find out what they might look like if they were a variety of different dinosaur species. Full color.

Fossil

Fossil
Title Fossil PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Two Lions
Pages
Release 2013
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9781477847008

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When a boy discovers that breaking open rocks with fossils brings the fossils back to life, he ends up bringing something back that is bigger than he can handle.

Fossils (A True Book: Earth Science)

Fossils (A True Book: Earth Science)
Title Fossils (A True Book: Earth Science) PDF eBook
Author Ann O. Squire
Publisher Scholastic Inc.
Pages 52
Release 2021-10-19
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1338832611

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Fossils are one of the most important tools we have for learning about long-extinct wildlife. A True Book: Earth Science series presents fascinating facts and fun activities that will engage the budding earth scientist, while exploring the fields of geology, meteorology, ecology, and more. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study. In the 4.6 billion years since Earth was formed, many plant and animal species have come and gone. Readers will discover how fossils are formed, how paleontologists search for them, and what kinds of information they can provide.

The Fossil Hunter

The Fossil Hunter
Title The Fossil Hunter PDF eBook
Author Shelley Emling
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Pages 262
Release 2009-10-13
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 023010097X

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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.

Dinosaur Bones

Dinosaur Bones
Title Dinosaur Bones PDF eBook
Author Bob Barner
Publisher Chronicle Books
Pages 18
Release 2012-06-01
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1452104085

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With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.