paleontology

"This book will introduce readers to the dire wolf and help them learn when and where the animal lived, what it looked like, how it survived, and why it went extinct"--Publisher.

"This book will introduce readers to the woolly mammoth and help them learn when and where the animal lived, what it looked like, how it survived, and why it went extinct"--Publisher.

Helps budding paleontologists learn all of the big, complicated dinosaur names and terms.

"Dig deep with paleontologists to discover fascinating facts about plants and animals of the distant past."--.

Dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era. For each, there is a chapter with dinosaur name (e.g., Tyrannosaurus rex), brief description, geographic area where found, meaning of name (e.g., for Tyrannosaurus rex: king of the tyrant lizards), size, diet (what the dinosaur ate).

"From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the mysteries of its disappearance, Brown and Osborn turn dinosaurs into a beloved part of culture"--.

Discusses the discovery of a nearly perfect skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota in 1990.

This detailed book has a wealth of information about what fossils can show us and how paleontologists learn from them, including facts about plants, dinosaurs, and extinction. Young scientists are shown how they too can be fossil hunters!.

"Tyrannosaurus rex had sharp teeth that could bite through bone, and Triceratops must have been an intimidating sight with their large frills and prominent horns. It's no wonder dinos ruled Earth back in the Cretaceous period. But what about creatures flying high in the sky or predators lurking under the waves? Many of these animals were not dinos. Become a paleontologist of the Cretaceous as you explore colorful illustrations and fabulous fossil photos to take a trip back in time and discover who was and was not a dino"--Provided by publisher.