The Tales Fossils Tell

Author : Jonathan R. Gallant
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780761411536
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales Fossils Tell written by Jonathan R. Gallant and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2001 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes fossils, how they are formed, and what they can tell us about life in the past.

Author : Yu-Ri Kim
Publisher : Big & Small
ISBN 13 : 1925186164
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossils Tell Stories written by Yu-Ri Kim and published by Big & Small. This book was released on 2015-03 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simple text and colorful illustrations introduce readers to fossils and what they tell us about animals and plants that lived long ago, with questions and a hands-on activity.

Author : Joy Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925248395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossils Tell Stories written by Joy Cowley and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tanya M. Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262348934
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tales Teeth Tell written by Tanya M. Smith and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What teeth can tell us about human evolution, development, and behavior. Our teeth have intriguing stories to tell. These sophisticated time machines record growth, diet, and evolutionary history as clearly as tree rings map a redwood's lifespan. Each day of childhood is etched into tooth crowns and roots—capturing birth, nursing history, environmental clues, and illnesses. The study of ancient, fossilized teeth sheds light on how our ancestors grew up, how we evolved, and how prehistoric cultural transitions continue to affect humans today. In The Tales Teeth Tell, biological anthropologist Tanya Smith offers an engaging and surprising look at what teeth tell us about the evolution of primates—including our own uniqueness. Humans' impressive set of varied teeth provides a multipurpose toolkit honed by the diet choices of our mammalian ancestors. Fossil teeth, highly resilient because of their substantial mineral content, are all that is left of some long-extinct species. Smith explains how researchers employ painstaking techniques to coax microscopic secrets from these enigmatic remains. Counting tiny daily lines provides a way to estimate age that is more powerful than any other forensic technique. Dental plaque—so carefully removed by dental hygienists today—records our ancestors' behavior and health in the form of fossilized food particles and bacteria, including their DNA. Smith also traces the grisly origins of dentistry, reveals that the urge to pick one's teeth is not unique to humans, and illuminates the age-old pursuit of “dental art.” The book is generously illustrated with original photographs, many in color.

Author : Aliki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781531190132
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossils Tell of Long Ago written by Aliki and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.

Author : Donald R. Prothero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539428
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Life in 25 Fossils written by Donald R. Prothero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every fossil tells a story. Best-selling paleontology author Donald R. Prothero describes twenty-five famous, beautifully preserved fossils in a gripping scientific history of life on Earth. Recounting the adventures behind the discovery of these objects and fully interpreting their significance within the larger fossil record, Prothero creates a riveting history of life on our planet. The twenty-five fossils portrayed in this book catch animals in their evolutionary splendor as they transition from one kind of organism to another. We witness extinct plants and animals of microscopic and immense size and thrilling diversity. We learn about fantastic land and sea creatures that have no match in nature today. Along the way, we encounter such fascinating fossils as the earliest trilobite, Olenellus; the giant shark Carcharocles; the "fishibian" Tiktaalik; the "Frogamander" and the "Turtle on the Half-Shell"; enormous marine reptiles and the biggest dinosaurs known; the first bird, Archaeopteryx; the walking whale Ambulocetus; the gigantic hornless rhinoceros Paraceratherium, the largest land mammal that ever lived; and the Australopithecus nicknamed "Lucy," the oldest human skeleton. We meet the scientists and adventurers who pioneered paleontology and learn about the larger intellectual and social contexts in which their discoveries were made. Finally, we find out where to see these splendid fossils in the world's great museums. Ideal for all who love prehistoric landscapes and delight in the history of science, this book makes a treasured addition to any bookshelf, stoking curiosity in the evolution of life on Earth.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245614
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Legends of the First Americans written by Adrienne Mayor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Aliki
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063222515
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossils Tell of Long Ago written by Aliki and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a fossil? Sometimes it's the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock. Sometimes it's a woolly mammoth, frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. Sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned to stone. A fossil is anything that has been preserved, one way or another, that tells about life on Earth. But you can make a fossil, too—something to be discovered a million years from now—and this book will tell you how.

Author : Tracey Fern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466816287
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barnum's Bones written by Tracey Fern and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barnum Brown's (1873-1963) parents named him after the circus icon P.T. Barnum, hoping that he would do something extraordinary--and he did! As a paleonotologist for the American Museum of Natural History, he discovered the first documented skeleton of the Tyrannosaurus Rex, as well as most of the other dinosaurs on display there today. An appealing and fun picture book biography, with zany and stunning illustrations by Boris Kulikov, BARNUM'S BONES captures the spirit of this remarkable man. Barnum's Bones is one The Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012.

Author : patricia lauber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dinosaurs walked here, and other [braille]. written by patricia lauber and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: