Fossils


Remarkable Creatures
Fossil
The Fossil Girl
Ravished
Dragon Teeth
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils
Fossils tell of long ago (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science)
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Skull in the Rock, The: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning
Handbooks: Fossils: The Clearest Recognition Guide Available (DK Smithsonian Handbook)
Dinosaur (Eyewitness Books)
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteThe Great Dinosaur Debate by Robert T. BakkerT. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter ÁlvarezThe Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory S. PaulMy Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian Switek
The Best Non-fiction Dinosaur Books
144 books — 97 voters

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierAt the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy ChevalierFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Lady And The Unicorn by Tracy ChevalierThe Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier
The best of Tracy Chevalier
13 books — 10 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldT. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter ÁlvarezThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsTrilobite by Richard Fortey
Learn about prehistoric life
51 books — 46 voters
Cod by Mark KurlanskyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussA River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Finding Out About Fish
110 books — 47 voters

The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition. ...more
Gareth J. Nelson

Tracy Chevalier
Mary Anning and I are hunting fossils on the beach, she her creatures, I my fish. Our eyes are fastened to the sand and rocks as we make our way along the shore at different paces, first one in front, then the other. Mary stops to split open a nodule and find what may be lodged within. I dig through clay, searching for something new and miraculous. We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.
Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

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