New Look! Relaunched with new jackets and 8 pages of new text! Here is an original and exciting new look at fossils - the remains of long-vanished animals and plants. Stunning real-life photographs of the spectacular remains of ancient lives offer a unique "eyewitness" view of what fossils are, how they were formed, and how they lived millions of years ago. See pearls that are 50 million years old, a dinosaur's toe, a troublesome "snake" that was turned to stone, a fossilized human being, and a snail made of precious stones. Learn how fossils are formed, how trilobites have been preserved for 590 million years, where to look for a belemnite, and how fossils helped the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Discover which are the most precious fossils in the world, where ammonites lived, how big mammoths were, what a devil's toenail looks like, and much, much more.
Author(s): Paul Taylor
Series: DK Eyewitness Books
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 73
Tags: Горно-геологическая отрасль;Историческая геология, палеонтология, стратиграфия;
Contents......Page 6
Fossils-true and false......Page 7
The making of rocks......Page 9
Turning to stone......Page 11
The changing world......Page 13
Early paleontology......Page 15
Fossil folklore......Page 17
Fossils of the future......Page 19
Remarkable remains......Page 21
Corals......Page 23
Sea bed dwellers......Page 25
Shells of all shapes......Page 27
Intelligent mollusks......Page 29
Animals in armor......Page 31
Arms and spines......Page 33
Fishes......Page 35
Plants-the pioneers......Page 37
Fossil fuels......Page 41
Out of the water......Page 43
Onto the land......Page 45
Sea dragons......Page 47
Fossil giants......Page 49
Winged wonders......Page 53
Mammal variety......Page 55
A world apart......Page 57
Human fossils......Page 59
Living fossils......Page 61
Fossil hunting......Page 63
Did you know?......Page 65
Find out more......Page 69
Glossary......Page 71
Index......Page 73
