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Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As the co-discoverer of the first known burrowing dinosaur and a popular science author, Anthony J. Martin is an expert at explaining his fossil-finding work to broad audiences. In this engaging book, Martin uses modern and fossil traces to introduce readers to a menagerie of animals and other lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our planet. We meet elephants that dig ballroom-sized caves alongside volcanoes, parrotfishes that...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
460 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Martin introduces readers to the world of ichnology, the study of traces and trace fossils -- such as tracks, trails, burrows, nests, toothmarks, and other vestiges of behavior -- and how through these remarkable clues, help scientists explore and intuit the rich and complicated lives of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era.
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