Moas Ark

Author : Peter Millett
Publisher : Raupo
ISBN 13 : 9781869485580
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moa's Ark written by Peter Millett and published by Raupo. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago when the earth flooded over, some creatures set sail on an ark built by Noah. On board Noah's ark are two pesky moa. When will they be able to get off the boat? After the lions? Before the penguins? Follow Noah and the two pesky moa as they search for their ideal home.

Author : Philip Stewart Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noah's ark; or, 'Mornings in the zoo'. written by Philip Stewart Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bellamy
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moa's Ark written by David Bellamy and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James O. Farlow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037166
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Noah's Ravens written by James O. Farlow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs, but their interpretation can be challenging: How different in size and shape can footprints be and yet have been made by the same kind of dinosaur? How similar can they be and yet have been made by different kinds of dinosaurs? To what extent can tridactyl dinosaur footprints serve as proxies for the biodiversity of their makers? Profusely illustrated and meticulously researched, Noah's Ravens quantitatively explores a variety of approaches to interpreting the tracks, carefully examining within-species and across-species variability in foot and footprint shape in nonavian dinosaurs and their close living relatives. The results help decipher one of the world's most important assemblages of fossil dinosaur tracks, found in sedimentary rocks deposited in ancient rift valleys of eastern North America. Those often beautifully preserved tracks were among the first studied by paleontologists, and they were initially interpreted as having been made by big birds—one of which was jokingly identified as Noah's legendary raven.

Author : H.H. Shugart
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231169086
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of the Earth written by H.H. Shugart and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?” God asks Job in the “Whirlwind Speech,” but Job cannot reply. This passage—which some environmentalists and religious scholars treat as a “green” creation myth—drives H. H. Shugart’s extraordinary investigation, in which he uses verses from God’s speech to Job to explore the planetary system, animal domestication, sea-level rise, evolution, biodiversity, weather phenomena, and climate change. Shugart calls attention to the rich resonance between the Earth’s natural history and the workings of religious feeling, the wisdom of Bible scripture, and the arguments of Bible ethicists. The divine questions that frame his study are quintessentially religious, and the global changes humans have wrought on the Earth operate in not only the physical, chemical, and biological spheres but also the spiritual realm. Shugart offers a universal framework for recognizing and confronting the global challenges humans now face: the relationship between human technology and large-scale environmental degradation; the effect of invasive species on the integrity of ecosystems; the role of humans in generating wide biotic extinctions; and the future functioning of our oceans and tides.

Author : Delphine Angst
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0081011431
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds written by Delphine Angst and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups of giant flightless birds: Dinornithiformes, Aepyornithiformes, Dromornithidae, Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae, Gastornithidae and Gargantuavis. The first chapter presents the global diversity of these birds and reviews the tools and methods used to study their paleobiology. Chapters 2 to 8 are each dedicated to one of the seven groups of extinct birds. Finally, a conclusion offers a global synthesis of the information presented in the book in an attempt to define a common evolutionary model. Focuses on the giant flightless birds that evolved independently in different parts of the world since the Cretaceous period Covers a number of different families with different evolutionary histories, providing a source of interesting comparisons Provides emphasis on the palaeobiology of these birds, including their evolution, adaptations, mode of life, ecology and extinction

Author : Alan de Queiroz
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465069762
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Monkey's Voyage written by Alan de Queiroz and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are across the Earth? Since the discovery of plate tectonics, scientists have conjectured that plants and animals were scattered over the globe by riding pieces of ancient supercontinents as they broke up. In the past decade, however, that theory has foundered, as the genomic revolution has made reams of new data available. And the data has revealed an extraordinary, stranger-than-fiction story that has sparked a scientific upheaval. In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes the radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being: frogs and mammals rode on rafts and icebergs, tiny spiders drifted on storm winds, and plant seeds were carried in the plumage of sea-going birds to create the map of life we see today. In other words, these organisms were not simply constrained by continental fate; they were the makers of their own geographic destiny. And as de Queiroz shows, the effects of oceanic dispersal have been crucial in generating the diversity of life on Earth, from monkeys and guinea pigs in South America to beech trees and kiwi birds in New Zealand. By toppling the idea that the slow process of continental drift is the main force behind the odd distributions of organisms, this theory highlights the dynamic and unpredictable nature of the history of life. In the tradition of John McPhee's Basin and Range, The Monkey's Voyage is a beautifully told narrative that strikingly reveals the importance of contingency in history and the nature of scientific discovery.

Author : Michael Myers Shoemaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands of the Southern Seas written by Michael Myers Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abe Sargent
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644162016
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love for One Another written by Abe Sargent and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who are you? What are the key parts of who you are that you carry with you? How do you identify yourself? Family? Friends? Where you live? Where you work? And what are those key identities? For Abe Sargent, those key identities are being a Christian; enjoying "nerd" activities; being a man; growing up in West Virginia; and living with a genetic, progressively worsening, neurological condition called Huntington's disease. These key identities infuse who we are. Join Abe's journey as he chronicles key times in his life, from childhood to adolescence. He discusses the lessons learned and how he has embraced the challenges of dealing with affliction as well the poverty of southern West Virginia and more. He discusses the challenges of being a gamer and "nerd" as a Christian. And he uses his knowledge of growing up as a Christian to infuse his conversations and explorations of life as a child, young adult, and mature adult today. Abe's favorite Bible verse is John 13:14""35: "A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another." Abe uses examples of his own life to gently challenge himself and us. Are we living that? Is there true love for one another?

Author : Spencer G. Lucas
Publisher : New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cenozoic Vertebrate Tracks and Traces written by Spencer G. Lucas and published by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. This book was released on 2007 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: