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AVp2s fiction readalong volume 55
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Rhythmic text and illustrations follow a paleontolgist and his crew as they dig, assemble and exhibit dinosaur bones.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A collection of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, from plant-eating and meat-eating dinosaurs, horned, armored, and spiked dinosaurs to the first bird, an ancient shark, and an armored fish. Features 28 dinosaur and other prehistoric animals including Velociraptor, Tyrannosaurus, Dtegosaurus, and many more. Includes fascinating facts and size comparison images. Stunning and colorful artwork bring each dinosaur to life. --Page 4 of cover.
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"One of New York Times Notable Books for 1997" Walter Alvarez is professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences...
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Let's discover volume 2
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Raintree Publishers
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A reference book dealing with early animal life on earth from worms to dinosaurs and with man's evolution. Grades K-3.
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A paleontologist shows what life was like on our planet long before the early humans emerged through words and illustrations.
Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing planet. A worthy successor to Charles Knight's beloved 1946 classic, Life...
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Thirty thousand years ago our prehistoric ancestors painted perfect images of animals on walls of tortuous caves, most often without any light. How was this possible? What meaning and messages did the cavemen want these paintings to convey? In addition, how did these perfect drawings come about at a time when man's sole purpose was surviving? And why, some ten thousand years later, did startlingly similar animal paintings appear once again, on dark...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"Catherine Thimmesh introduces the incredible talents of the paleoartist, whose work reanimates gone-but-never-forgotten dinosaurs in giant full-color paintings that are as strikingly beautiful as they aim to be scientifically accurate, down to the smallest detail. Follow a paleoartist through the scientific process of ascertaining the appearance of various dinosaurs from millions of years ago to learn how science, art, and imagination combine to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In two parallel stories, an intelligent female member of a prehistoric tribe becomes instrumental in advancing the lot of her people, and the daughter of a paleontologist is visiting him on a dig in Africa when important fossil remains are discovered.
32) Fossils
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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This book provides a simple and fun introduction to fossils, discussing different kinds of fossils, exploring how and why they have formed, how they have changed over time, their appearance and properties. With the help of some Rock Solid! facts that provide cool examples, the book will show you how amazing fossils can be: from the prehistoric woolly mammoth body in Siberia and dinosaur remains to petrified forests.
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Dinosaurs, Dragons, and the Bible is a one-of-a kind Christian apologetic resource sure to captivate families, scientists, historians, and theologians! Using the Bible as the absolute authority, Bodie Hodge of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and the Ark Encounter, provides answers to the most asked questions about these amazing creatures.
As Christians, we must not ignore what the Scriptures say about dinosaurs and dragons and accept the...
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Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. This animal confounded science for more than a century. Some thought it a slug, others a fish, a worm, a plant, even a primitive ancestor of ourselves. The list of possibilities grew and yet an answer to the riddle never seemed any nearer. Would the animal that left behind these miniscule fossils known as conodonts...
37) The bone bed
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 20
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In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind...
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From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a...
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"From the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: socialite Henry Fairfield Osborn and intrepid fossil hunter Barnum Brown. When Brown unearths the first Tyrannosaurus rex fossils, Osborn sees a path to save his museum from irrelevancy. As the public turns out in droves to cower before this bone-chilling giant of the past and wonder at the...
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