Download or read book The Dinosaur Hunters A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World Text Only Edition written by Deborah Cadbury and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.
Download or read book Dinosaur Hunters written by Kate McMullan and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the work scientists do to find out more about these huge prehistoric animals.
Download or read book The Great Dinosaur Hunters and Their Discoveries written by Edwin Harris Colbert and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the noted paleontologists who have uncovered and studied dinosaur fossils including information on their findings
Download or read book Dinosaur Hunter written by Steve White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations - your application for a Mesozoic hunting licence has been successful! Before you travel back in time and charge headlong into a pack of prehistoric big game, we strongly advise that you read the following guidebook. It will provide you with information crucial to success – and survival! You will learn the basic facts of the geography, climate and environmental conditions of the three periods that make up the exciting Mesozoic era. The book then covers the huge variety of dinosaurs that stalk these times, giving tips on identification, tracking, and the best weapons to bring them down! Let the hunt begin!
Download or read book The Dinosaur Hunter written by Homer Hickam and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating thriller, well crafted and relentless ... A cross between Tony Hillerman and Larry McMurtry, this is one hell of a good read."--Douglas Preston, author of Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy The cowboys who work on the ranchlands of Montana expect more than their fair share of trouble. One of them is Mike Wire, a former homicide detective. Mike is about to learn murder and mayhem can happen under Motnana's big skies, too. Beneath the earth lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections---and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon he will have to combine everything he learned as a cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without.
Download or read book Dinosaur Hunters written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you seen a telescope? What happens when you look through it? In this story, James and Molly used their telescope to help them hunt for dinosaurs. They had to be careful not to go too close to the dinosaurs!
Download or read book Dinosaur Hunt written by Karen Carr and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a muddy riverbank, a hungry dinosaur stalks her prey. From her hiding place in the nearby trees, she spies a giant, four-legged plant eater. At the right moment, she leaps from the trees and lunges at the slower dinosaur, tearing at its flanks with teeth and sharp claws. It's an average day in southern Texas, 115 million years ago. This dinosaur attack happened. We know for certain, because these two animals left their footprints in the mud -- and they're still there, hardened into stone for all to see. Dinosaur Hunt presents this dramatic event and brings the two combatants vividly back to life. It is the tale of a young Acrocanthosaurus, a predatory dinosaur similar to T. rex. As she grows she learns to hide, hunt, and survive in the eat-or-be-eaten age of dinosaurs. The astounding, lifelike art of Karen Carr transports us to this strange and threatening world and re-creates one of the most gripping tales a few footprints ever told.
Download or read book The Terrible Lizard written by Deborah Cadbury and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1812, the skeleton of a monster was discovered beneath the cliffs of Dorset, setting in motion a collision between science and religion, and among scientists eager to claim supremacy in a brand-new field. For Reverend William Buckland, an eccentric naturalist at Oxford University, the fossil remains of a creature that existed before Noah's flood inspired an attempt to prove the accuracy of the biblical record. Novelist Gideon Mantell also became obsessed with the ancient past, and eminent anatomist Richard Owen soon entered the fray, claiming credit for the discovery of the dinosaurs. In a fast-paced narrative, Terrible Lizard re-creates the bitter feud between Mantell and Owen. Revealing a strange, awesome prehistoric era, their struggle set the stage for Darwin's shattering theories -- and for controversies that still rage today.
Download or read book Dinosaur Hunters written by Edward Close and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been nearly 200 years since the first dinosaur remains were found in southern England, and in that time these fascinating creatures from long ago have lost none of their hold on our imagination. This book explores the history of dinosaurs and their time on earth. A detailed timeline traces the archaeological discoveries that inform todays study of prehistoric life, and clear, informative illustrations and diagrams explore different kinds of dinosaurs, their appearance and scale, habitats and intellect, and the fossils they left behind.
Download or read book Dino Hunt written by Max Davine and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Reeves is a down on his luck wildlife wrangler, his career once saw him traveling the globe, working on relocation programs and starring in documentary films. Now, he and his business partner Paul Franciscus are lucky if they can get a gig wrangling bulls in Arizona. Until one day, when they receive a massive advance payment from a mysterious company based in Florida. In return, they are to do what once brought them glory the world over; trap and relocated endangered animals. Little do they know they're not going to the Everglades to trap alligators, they're going through time and space to rescue great, big dinosaurs!But others have come to pillage the Cretaceous world for it's natural resources, and to enslave and exploit the prehistoric inhabitants. They are ruthless, they are well equipped, and they will stop at nothing. It's up to unwitting Reeves to make a stand not just for the dinosaurs, but to save his own life.
Download or read book We re Going on a Dino Hunt written by Samantha Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When young Vincent refuses to go to the shop, his mother comes up with a fun plan to make the trip an exciting journey. Join Vincent and his mother as they go on an exciting dino hunt adventure. Singing their song and finding ways to make it past the many obstacles ahead, until they make it to the safety of the shop. How many dinosaurs can you find?
Download or read book The Dinosaur Hunters written by Mark Norell and published by Carlton Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Dinosaur Hunters' tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs through the individuals who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge.
Download or read book The Dinosaur Artist written by Paige Williams and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot). In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton." In fact, Lot 49135 consisted of a nearly complete T. bataar, a close cousin to the most famous animal that ever lived. The fossils now on display in a Manhattan event space had been unearthed in Mongolia, more than 6,000 miles away. At eight-feet high and 24 feet long, the specimen was spectacular, and when the gavel sounded the winning bid was over $1 million. Eric Prokopi, a thirty-eight-year-old Floridian, was the man who had brought this extraordinary skeleton to market. A onetime swimmer who spent his teenage years diving for shark teeth, Prokopi's singular obsession with fossils fueled a thriving business hunting, preparing, and selling specimens, to clients ranging from natural history museums to avid private collectors like actor Leonardo DiCaprio. But there was a problem. This time, facing financial strain, had Prokopi gone too far? As the T. bataar went to auction, a network of paleontologists alerted the government of Mongolia to the eye-catching lot. As an international custody battle ensued, Prokopi watched as his own world unraveled. In the tradition of The Orchid Thief, The Dinosaur Artist is a stunning work of narrative journalism about humans' relationship with natural history and a seemingly intractable conflict between science and commerce. A story that stretches from Florida's Land O' Lakes to the Gobi Desert, The Dinosaur Artist illuminates the history of fossil collecting--a murky, sometimes risky business, populated by eccentrics and obsessives, where the lines between poacher and hunter, collector and smuggler, enthusiast and opportunist, can easily blur. In her first book, Paige Williams has given readers an irresistible story that spans continents, cultures, and millennia as she examines the question of who, ultimately, owns the past.
Download or read book Assembling the Dinosaur written by Lukas Rieppel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America’s wealthiest business tycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular, American dinosaurs dominated the popular imagination, making front-page headlines and appearing in feature films. Assembling the Dinosaur follows dinosaur fossils from the field to the museum and into the commercial culture of North America’s Gilded Age. Business tycoons like Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan made common cause with vertebrate paleontologists to capitalize on the widespread appeal of dinosaurs, using them to project American exceptionalism back into prehistory. Learning from the show-stopping techniques of P. T. Barnum, museums exhibited dinosaurs to attract, entertain, and educate the public. By assembling the skeletons of dinosaurs into eye-catching displays, wealthy industrialists sought to cement their own reputations as generous benefactors of science, showing that modern capitalism could produce public goods in addition to profits. Behind the scenes, museums adopted corporate management practices to control the movement of dinosaur bones, restricting their circulation to influence their meaning and value in popular culture. Tracing the entwined relationship of dinosaurs, capitalism, and culture during the Gilded Age, Lukas Rieppel reveals the outsized role these giant reptiles played during one of the most consequential periods in American history.
Download or read book Dino Hunt written by Anastasia Suen and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robot and Rico go to the museum and take part in a scavenger hunt.
Download or read book Hunting Dinosaurs written by Louie Psihoyos and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anecdotal journey into the world of dinosaur paleontology chronicles the international odyssey of a renowned photojournalist who traveled the world in search of the great fossil hunters and their discoveries
Download or read book Dino Safari written by R.L. Jones and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can best be described as an illustrated Jurassic phone book. The author has cataloged more than 250 museums, libraries, parks, and quarries where modern-day dinosaur hunters can find the best dino attractions.
