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Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of British localities where remains of the mammoth have been discovered p. [258]-260.
Author : Diana E. Marsh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201233
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters to Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century. Marsh describes participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time. As a museum ethnography, the book provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public.
Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of British localities where remains of the mammoth have been discovered p. [258]-260.
Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)
Download or read book Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588345734
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book Giants of the Lost World written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying monsters in South America--they just happened to be extinct. In fact, South America has an incredible history as a land where many strange creatures evolved and died out. In his book Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America, Donald R. Prothero uncovers the real science and history behind this fascinating story. The largest animal ever discovered was the huge sauropod dinosaur Argentinosaurus, which was about 130 feet long and weighed up to 100 tons. The carnivorous predator Giganotosaurus weighed in at more than 8 tons and measured more than 47 feet long, dwarfing the T. rex in comparison. Gigantic anacondas broke reptile records; possums evolved into huge saber-toothed predators; and ground sloths grew larger than elephants in this strange, unknown land. Prothero presents the scientific details about each of these prehistoric beasts, provides a picture of the ancient landscapes they once roamed, and includes the stories of the individuals who first discovered their fossils for a captivating account of a lost world that is stranger than fiction.
Author : Karen A. Rader
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607983X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life on Display written by Karen A. Rader and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, Life on Display uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums’ shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle profound changes in these exhibitions—and the institutions that housed them—between 1910 and 1990, ultimately offering new perspectives on the history of museums, science, and science education. Rader and Cain explain why science and natural history museums began to welcome new audiences between the 1900s and the 1920s and chronicle the turmoil that resulted from the introduction of new kinds of biological displays. They describe how these displays of life changed dramatically once again in the 1930s and 1940s, as museums negotiated changing, often conflicting interests of scientists, educators, and visitors. The authors then reveal how museum staffs, facing intense public and scientific scrutiny, experimented with wildly different definitions of life science and life science education from the 1950s through the 1980s. The book concludes with a discussion of the influence that corporate sponsorship and blockbuster economics wielded over science and natural history museums in the century’s last decades. A vivid, entertaining study of the ways science and natural history museums shaped and were shaped by understandings of science and public education in the twentieth-century United States, Life on Display will appeal to historians, sociologists, and ethnographers of American science and culture, as well as museum practitioners and general readers.
Author : Janet Riehecky
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781429601184
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tasmanian Tiger written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its wolflike body, kangaroo tail, and tiger stripes, the Tasmanian tiger was a frightening sight. And when this toothy beast opened its mouth, it was downright monstrous.
Author : Carol Lindeen
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9781429601146
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)
Download or read book Giant Kangaroo written by Carol Lindeen and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple text and illustrations describe giant kangaroos, how they lived, and how they became extinct"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John Whitfield
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588346986
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lost Animals written by John Whitfield and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.
