Download or read book Ichthyosaurs written by S. R. Howe and published by National Museum Wales. This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ichthyosaurs written by Kate Moening and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest Ichthyosaurs grew up to 85 feet long. They were as long as three school buses! Readers will learn this and more in this fact-filled title. Leveled text and colorful illustrations highlight the animal’s body parts, favorite meals, common behaviors, and extinction. Special features include a size comparison, a diet graphic, a map of where a notable fossil was found, and more. The book ends with a full-spread profile that puts important information about Ichthyosaurs in one place!

Download or read book Ichthyosaurs written by Mat Edwards and published by Epic. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest Ichthyosaurs grew up to 85 feet long. They were as long as three school buses! Readers will learn this and more in this fact-filled title. Leveled text and colorful illustrations highlight the animal’s body parts, favorite meals, common behaviors, and extinction. Special features include a size comparison, a diet graphic, a map of where a notable fossil was found, and more. The book ends with a full-spread profile that puts important information about Ichthyosaurs in one place!

Download or read book Ichthyosaur written by Josh Gregory and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details the life of the dinosaur known as Ichthyosaur. Readers will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning when Ichthyosaur lived and what it likely looked like. They will also find out how it lived, from what it ate to how it dealt with enemies. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

Download or read book Locked in Time written by Dean R. Lomax and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures—how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and breathed? From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing ground sloths, this book takes readers on a global journey deep into the earth’s past. Locked in Time showcases fifty of the most astonishing fossils ever found, brought together in five fascinating chapters that offer an unprecedented glimpse at the real-life behaviors of prehistoric animals. Dean R. Lomax examines the extraordinary direct evidence of fossils captured in the midst of everyday action, such as dinosaurs sitting on their eggs like birds, Jurassic flies preserved while mating, a T. rex infected by parasites. Each fossil, he reveals, tells a unique story about prehistoric life. Many recall behaviors typical of animals familiar to us today, evoking the chain of evolution that links all living things to their distant ancestors. Locked in Time allows us to see that fossils are not just inanimate objects: they can record the life stories of creatures as fully alive as any today. Striking and scientifically rigorous illustrations by renowned paleoartist Bob Nicholls bring these breathtaking moments to life.

Download or read book Neptune s Ark written by David Rains Wallace and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquatic creatures.

Download or read book SP005 Child of the rocks the story of Berlin Ichthyosaur State Park written by and published by NV Bureau of Mines & Geology. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Triassic Ichthyosauria written by John Campbell Merriam and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Giant Sea Reptiles of the Dinosaur Age written by Caroline Arnold and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about enormous reptiles who swam the seas during the dinosaur age.

Download or read book Fossils written by P.R. Yadav and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present title Fossils has been carefully organized and clearly written for the undergraduate students, however, it would also supplement the students of postgraduate classes. It has been written in a simple language and in a straight forward manner. Our approach throughout is critical and evaluative, neither old nor new theories are taken trust but are examined rigorously and often critical, the students should be aware of what materials is sound and what untested or controversial. Those principles which survive such analysis have put together in a new and current synthesis of the state of the art . Contents: Introduction, Stratigraphy, Rocks, Fossils, Searching Fossils, Fossilisation, Geographical Time Scale, Microfossils, Trace Fossils, Origin of Chordates, Origin of the Vertebrates, Origin of Amphibians, Mesozoic Reptiles, Origin of Birds, Origin of Mammals.

Download or read book Last of the Dinosaurs written by Thom Holmes and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the dinosaurs that lived during the Cretaceous period and the climatic and geologic changes that brought about their extinction.

Download or read book Sea Dragons written by Richard Ellis and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts—every bit as big and ferocious—reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the world’s foremost writers on the denizens of the deep, takes us back to the Mesozoic era to resurrect the fascinating lives of these giant seagoing reptiles. Working from the fossil record, Ellis explores the natural history of these fierce predators, speculates on their habits, and tells how they eventually became extinct—or did they? He traces the 200-million-year history of the great ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs who swam the ancient oceans—and who, according to some, may even still frequent the likes of Loch Ness. Picture if you will seventy-foot dragons with foot-long serrated teeth, or an animal that looked like a crocodile crossed with a shark the size of a small yacht. With its impossibly long neck, Plesiosaurus conybeari has been compared to “a giant snake threaded through the body of a turtle.” At a length of nearly sixty feet, Mosasaurus hoffmanni boasted powerful jaws and teeth that could crunch up even the hardest-shelled giant sea turtle. And Kronosaurus queenslandicus, perhaps the most formidable of the lot, had a skull nine feet long—more than twice that of Tyrannosaurus Rex—with teeth to match. The first book about these amazing animals in nearly a century, Sea Dragons draws upon the most recent scientific research to vividly reconstruct their lives and habitats. Their fossils have been found all over the world—in Europe, Australia, Japan, and even Kansas—in lands that once lay on the floors of Jurassic and Triassic seas. Along the way, the book also provides intriguing insights into and entertaining tales about the work, discoveries, and competing theories that compose the fascinating world of vertebrate paleontology. Ellis also graces his text with a set of incomparable illustrations. Widely hailed as our foremost artist of marine natural history, he depicts vividly how these creatures probably appeared and, through these likenesses, invites us to speculate on their locomotion, their predatory habits, their very lifestyles. A genuine book of marvels and wonders, Sea Dragons will certainly stir one’s curiosity about our planet’s prehistoric past.

Download or read book Studies on the Mesozoic of Sonora and adjacent areas written by César Jacques-Ayala and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Runes of Evolution written by Simon Conway Morris and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did human beings acquire imaginations that can conjure up untrue possibilities? How did the Universe become self-aware? In The Runes of Evolution, Simon Conway Morris revitalizes the study of evolution from the perspective of convergence, providing us with compelling new evidence to support the mounting scientific view that the history of life is far more predictable than once thought. A leading evolutionary biologist at the University of Cambridge, Conway Morris came into international prominence for his work on the Cambrian explosion (especially fossils of the Burgess Shale) and evolutionary convergence, which is the process whereby organisms not closely related (not monophyletic), independently evolve similar traits as a result of having to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches. In The Runes of Evolution, he illustrates how the ubiquity of convergence hints at an underlying framework whereby many outcomes, not least brains and intelligence, are virtually guaranteed on any Earth-like planet. Conway Morris also emphasizes how much of the complexity of advanced biological systems is inherent in microbial forms. By casting a wider net, The Runes of Evolution explores many neglected evolutionary questions. Some are remarkably general. Why, for example, are convergences such as parasitism, carnivory, and nitrogen fixation in plants concentrated in particular taxonomic hot spots? Why do certain groups have a particular propensity to evolve toward particular states? Some questions lead to unexpected evolutionary insights: If bees sleep (as they do), do they dream? Why is that insect copulating with an orchid? Why have sponges evolved a system of fiber optics? What do mantis shrimps and submarines have in common? If dinosaurs had not gone extinct what would have happened next? Will a saber-toothed cat ever re-evolve? Cona Morris observes: “Even amongst the mammals, let alone the entire tree of life, humans represent one minute twig of a vast (and largely fossilized) arborescence. Every living species is a linear descendant of an immense string of now-vanished ancestors, but evolution itself is the very reverse of linear. Rather it is endlessly exploratory, probing the vast spaces of biological hyperspace. Indeed this book is a celebration of how our world is (and was) populated by a riot of forms, a coruscating tapestry of life.” The Runes of Evolution is the most definitive synthesis of evolutionary convergence to be published to date.

Download or read book The Mechanics and Physiology of Animal Swimming written by L. Maddock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together current research on a wide range of swimming organisms, with an emphasis on the biomechanics, physiology and hydrodynamics of swimming in or on water. Several chapters deal with different aspects of fish swimming, from the use of different 'gaits' to the operation of the locomotor muscles. All chapters are by recognised authorities in their different fields, and all are accessible to biologists interested in aquatic locomotion.

Download or read book Dinosaurs Spitfires and Sea Dragons written by Christopher McGowan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McGowan attempts to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles, making fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals, and drawing on science and engineering concepts to explain the similarities between the aerodynamics of pteradons and Spitfire planes. Illustrations.

Download or read book Life through the Ages II written by Mark P. Witton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? 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 through the Ages II takes us on an unforgettable journey through the evolution of life on Earth. Dozens of gorgeous color illustrations and meticulously researched, accompanying commentary showcase the succession of lost worlds, defining events, and ancient creatures that have appeared since the earth was formed, creating an indispensable guide to explore what came before us.