Discovering Fossil Fishes

Author : John Maisey
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 9780813338071
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering Fossil Fishes written by John Maisey and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fishes have a unique evolutionary history that stretches back in time more than 450 million years. They are incredibly ancient-older than the dinosaurs-and include the ancestors of all limbed vertebrates living on land, even humans.In Discovering Fossil Fishes , John Maisey traces the evolution of fishes over the course of nearly half a billion years, describing the discovery of their extraordinary fossil remains and explaining what these ancient animals tell us about our own place in the history of life. Combining current scientific information with entertaining tales about historic and contemporary fieldwork, Maisey brings to life the development of armored fishes, monster sharks, and fishes with arms as he reveals the subtleties of evolution's greatest success story.More abundant and more diverse than their air-breathing cousins, fishes today dominate the seas and freshwaters of Earth. Through outstanding full-color photographs of their fossils and of fossil reconstructions by artists David Miller and Ivy Rutzky, along with informative photographs, charts, diagrams, and drawings, we discover a staggering half-billion-year history in which lies our own watery origins.

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
ISBN 13 : 1575055368
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Fish Found Alive written by Sally M. Walker and published by Carolrhoda Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent research about it.

Author : Sheila Mahala Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of Fossil Fishes in Scotland Up to 1845 written by Sheila Mahala Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sally M. Walker
Publisher : Lerner Publications ™
ISBN 13 : 1541506510
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Figuring Out Fossils written by Sally M. Walker and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossils give us a window to the past. Water, sediments, and pressure work together over time to preserve the shape of things that lived long ago. Studying these ancient plants and animals tells us more about our own existence. Have you ever searched for fossils? Unearth some in this book.

Author : Karl Albert Frickhinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1096 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Atlas, Fishes written by Karl Albert Frickhinger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Shubin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307377164
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Inner Fish written by Neil Shubin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers on fossil fishes: 1843 written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A. Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of Fishes written by John A. Long and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armored fishes and monster sharks, fishes with arms and fishes that breathe air--these and many other strange creatures are part of the remarkable story told in this book. In The Rise of Fishes, John Long traces the evolutionary history of fishes over the course of 500 million years, describes the discovery of extraordinary fossil remains, and explains the techniques used in their interpretation. Featuring more than 300 color illustrations, the book includes photographs of fossils from around the world as well as the author's dramatic color illustrations of what the fish may have actually looked like. Long tells the story of how these creatures lived and developed and why their rise from the waters of the archaic seas and rivers onto land was so momentous an event in the evolution of life on earth. He combines current scientific information with entertaining stories about his own field work in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Antarctica. Detailed, accessible, and lavishly illustrated, The Rise of Fishes is a book for anyone with an interest in evolution, fossils, or fish.

Author : David Starr Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Fishes of Southern California written by David Starr Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Valerie J. Weber
Publisher : Gareth Stevens
ISBN 13 : 9780836845617
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coelacanth written by Valerie J. Weber and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2005 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics of a fish that is thought to have lived 400 million years ago.