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41) Exotic zoology
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1959.
Physical Desc
468 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
NewForest Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes some of the animals of the Triassic Period, a time when reptiles were common and when the first dinosaurs, and the ancestors of the mammals, started to evolve. Includes an Animal Families glossary, prehistory timeline, and pronunciation guides"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author of Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds, the beginnings...
Author
Series
Publisher
New Forest Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the animals of the Tertiary Period, when huge open plains of grass formed, and mammals developed long legs to suit this new environment. Includes an animal families glossary, prehistory timeline, and pronunciation guides"--
Author
Series
Kentucky. Geological survey 1904-1912. Bulletin volume no. 5
Pub. Date
1905
Physical Desc
64 pages, 3 plates ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Walter Foster Jr
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What would it be like to see a living, breathing dinosaur? Following in the footsteps of Ancient Earth Journal: The Early Cretaceous, this next installment, The Late Jurassic, will take readers further back in time to a period when giants ruled the land and early mammals began to secure their place alongside the dinosaurs"--Publisher
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
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dinosaur bones and skeletons, even dinosaur eggs are not unusual, but rare soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. Here, paleontologist Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil excavations of the past 100 years--including the recent discovery of a remarkably intact dinosaur mummy in the Badlands of North Dakota. Bone structure is just the beginning of our knowledge today,...
Author
Series
Special report volume no. 14
Publisher
[Birmingham Printing Company, Publishers]
Pub. Date
1926.
Physical Desc
312 pages, 97 plates (includes folded diagrams) : folded color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume 12
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
110 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This collection of short stories--part of PM Press's Outspoken Author's series--features a historical science fiction narrative of England's first female paleontologist, but also includes other tales of family woes, invisibility, and an interview with the author.
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