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Hunt for the past Hunt for the past Sue Hendrickson Self-taught field paleontologist Hendrickson offers an exciting account of her life, from the exhilaration of her first "find" at the age of four to her most remarkable achievement: unearthing the la… OL15831253W
Inside dinosaurs Inside dinosaurs Andra Serlin Abramson Scientists from the American Museum of Natural History recreate the world of dinosaurs as it was over 250 million years ago. OL16182519W
Wild Thing (Peter Brown #2) Wild Thing (Peter Brown #2) Josh Bazell It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but sel… OL16184315W
Hunting Tapir During The Great Flood And Other Tales Of Exploration And High Adventure Hunting Tapir During The Great Flood And Other Tales Of Exploration And High Adventure Jon Kalb 256 p. : 24 cm OL17517736W
Mastodon mystery Mastodon mystery Taylor Morrison Describes the efforts of the artist and paleontologist Charles Willson Peale to excavate and display the bones of a prehistoric creature now known as the mastodon. OL17870928W
Dragon Teeth Dragon Teeth Michael Crichton The year is 1876. Among the warring Indian tribes and lawless gold-rush towns of America's western territories, two paleontologists pillage the Wild West. They are hunting for dinosaur fossils, while… OL17881779W
Secrets from the Rocks Secrets from the Rocks Albert Marrin A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncov… OL1828583W
The dinosaur footprints and Roland T. Bird The dinosaur footprints and Roland T. Bird Brooke Hartzog Describes the efforts of Roland Bird to investigate footprints left in various sites across the American Southwest by dinosaurs millions of years ago. OL1840810W
Tyrannosaurus rex and Barnum Brown Tyrannosaurus rex and Barnum Brown Brooke Hartzog Recounts the life and fossil discoveries of Barnum Brown, the paleontologist who, in 1908, discovered the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton that had ever been found. OL1840815W
Project Pendulum Project Pendulum Robert Silverberg,Silverberg Twins become involved in an experiment in time travel. OL1960463W
Dino treasures Dino treasures Rhonda Lucas Donald "Just as some people dig and look for pirate treasure, some scientists dig and look for treasures, too. These treasures may not be gold or jewels but fossils. Following in the footsteps of Dino Track… OL21181605W
Dinosaur Dinosaur C. McGowan Presents the behind-the-scenes process that results in a dinosaur display, from digging up the skeleton and identifying the dinosaur to reassembling its bones into a skeleton. OL24261029W
Bones, bones, dinosaur bones Bones, bones, dinosaur bones Byron Barton A cast of characters looks for, finds, and assembles some dinosaur bones. OL2463630W
The Fossil Feud The Fossil Feud Meish Goldish The Fossil Feud recounts the rivalry between two competing paleontologists, Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope. In the mid-19th Century, Marsh and Cope stopped at nothing-from spying, brib… OL2638321W
Théo et la paléontologue Théo et la paléontologue Mélanie Perreault Une série de plaquettes didactiques visant à présenter divers métiers par le biais d'une mésaventure enfantine prenant place dans une famille de trois enfants. Des illustrations de type manga accompa… OL27038722W
Dinosaur scientist Dinosaur scientist Thom Holmes "Explores the science of and careers in paleontology using several examples of real-life scientists"--Provided by publisher. OL3260340W
Terrible Lizard Terrible Lizard Deborah Cadbury "In 1812 a twelve-year-old girl named Mary Anning was collecting fossils for her father beneath the cliffs of Dorset when she discovered the outline of a lizardlike skeleton embedded in the limestone… OL5752139W
Shadow Bones (Great Lakes Legends #2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense) Shadow Bones (Great Lakes Legends #2) (Steeple Hill Love Inspired Suspense) Colleen Rhoads There were diamonds in that old family mine, Skye Blackbird was sure of it. She'd be able to prove it, too, and fulfill her Ojibwa chieftain father's dream, if it weren't for paleontologist Jake Baxt… OL5823459W
Dinosaur Fossils Dinosaur Fossils Leonie Bennett This easily read text explains how a dinosaur became a fossil—from just after the animal's death, when its bones were cleaned by scavengers, to the build up of layers and layers of earth that eventua… OL5837361W
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt William Nothdurft "The Date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a … OL8036788W
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