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Fossils


Remarkable Creatures
Fossil
The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery
Fossils tell of long ago (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science)
Ravished
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Dragon Teeth
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils
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)
The Dinosaur Expert
Tyrannosaur Canyon (Wyman Ford, #1)
Jack Horner
The worse the country, the more tortured it is by water and wind, the more broken and carved, the more it attracts fossil hunters, who depend on the planet to open itself to us. We can only scratch away at what natural forces have brought to the surface.
Jack Horner, How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever

Ian Lendler
It was a modern folklorist name Adrienne Mayor who first noticed that the Ancient Greek stories of the griffin (which had the body of a lion, head and claws of an eagle, tail of a serpent) perfectly described a Protoceratops. The Greeks believed that the griffin guarded treasures of gold. Mayor discovered that fossilized skulls of Protoceratops were often found in Mongolia, where the Greeks traveled to trade for gold.
Ian Lendler, The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the Greatest Mystery on Earth

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