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Summary
Summary
For the beginning naturalist ages 10 and up. Hundreds of real-life color photos and illustrations with lively captions and detailed text.
Summary
Here is an original and exciting new look at fossils - the remains of long-vanished animals and plants. Stunning real-life photographs of the spectacular remains of ancient lives offer a unique "eyewitness" view of what fossils are, how they were formed, and how they lived millions of years ago. See pearls that are 50 million years old, a dinosaur's toe, a troublesome "snake" that was turned to stone, a fossilized human being, and a snail made of precious stones. Learn how fossils are formed, how trilobites have been preserved for 590 million years, where to look for a belemnite, and how fossils helped the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Discover which are the most precious fossils in the world, where ammonites lived, how big mammoths were, what a devil's toenail looks like, and much, much more.
Table of Contents
| Fossils--true and false | p. 6 |
| The making of rocks | p. 8 |
| Turning to stone | p. 10 |
| The changing world | p. 12 |
| Early paleontology | p. 14 |
| Fossil folklore | p. 16 |
| Fossils of the future | p. 18 |
| Remarkable remains | p. 20 |
| Corals | p. 22 |
| Sea bed dwellers | p. 24 |
| Shells of all shapes | p. 26 |
| Intelligent mollusks | p. 28 |
| Animals in armor | p. 30 |
| Arms and spines | p. 32 |
| Fishes | p. 34 |
| Plants--the pioneers | p. 36 |
| Fossil fuels | p. 40 |
| Out of the water | p. 42 |
| Onto the land | p. 44 |
| Sea dragons | p. 46 |
| Fossil giants | p. 48 |
| Discovering dinosaurs | p. 50 |
| Winged wonders | p. 52 |
| Mammal variety | p. 54 |
| A world apart | p. 56 |
| Human fossils | p. 58 |
| Living fossils | p. 60 |
| Fossil hunting | p. 62 |
| Index | p. 64 |
| Fossils--true and false | p. 6 |
| The making of rocks | p. 8 |
| Turning to stone | p. 10 |
| The changing world | p. 12 |
| Early paleontology | p. 14 |
| Fossil folklore | p. 16 |
| Fossils of the future | p. 18 |
| Remarkable remains | p. 20 |
| Corals | p. 22 |
| Sea bed dwellers | p. 24 |
| Shells of all shapes | p. 26 |
| Intelligent mollusks | p. 28 |
| Animals in armor | p. 30 |
| Arms and spines | p. 32 |
| Fishes | p. 34 |
| Plants--the pioneers | p. 36 |
| Fossil fuels | p. 40 |
| Out of the water | p. 42 |
| Onto the land | p. 44 |
| Sea dragons | p. 46 |
| Fossil giants | p. 48 |
| Discovering dinosaurs | p. 50 |
| Winged wonders | p. 52 |
| Mammal variety | p. 54 |
| A world apart | p. 56 |
| Human fossils | p. 58 |
| Living fossils | p. 60 |
| Fossil hunting | p. 62 |
| Index | p. 64 |