Digging Up Dinosaurs

Digging Up Dinosaurs

Author: Aliki

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1988-10-05

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0064450783

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How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum? Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago.


Dinosaur Bones

Dinosaur Bones

Author: Bob Barner

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1452104085

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With a lively rhyming text and vibrant paper collage illustrations, author-artist Bob Barner shakes the dust off the dinosaur bones found in museums and reminds us that they once belonged to living, breathing creatures. Filled with fun dinosaur facts (a T. Rex skull can weigh up to 750 pounds!) and an informational "Dinometer," Dinosaur Bones is sure to make young dinosaur enthusiasts roar with delight.


The Berenstain Bears' Dinosaur Dig

The Berenstain Bears' Dinosaur Dig

Author:

Publisher: HarperFestival

Published: 2012-07-03

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780062075482

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Wanting to learn more after visiting a dinosaur museum, Brother and Sister journey to the site of a real dinosaur dig and wonder if they will find fossil remnants of a stegosaurus, a tyrannosaurus rex or another exciting species. Original. 75,000 first printing.


Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones

Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones

Author: Byron Barton

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1990-09-30

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 0690048254

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Bones. Bones. We look for bones. We look for the bones of dinosaurs. Six small paleontologists search for bones. When they find them, they dig them up, wrap them, and load them on a truck, bound for the museum. There, they carefully put together the bones of a giant dinosaur. In bright, bold, exuberant pictures, with a text that is just right for reading or chanting aloud, Byron Barton looks at just what happens to the bones left behind by dinosaurs of long, long ago.


Deep Alberta

Deep Alberta

Author: John Acorn

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2007-02-07

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0888644817

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Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s.


Dig Those Dinosaurs

Dig Those Dinosaurs

Author: Lori Haskins Houran

Publisher: Albert Whitman

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807515792

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"Dig, dig, dig those dinosaurs/ So big, big, big those dinosaurs/ Rig, rig, rig those dinosaurs/ Dig those dinosaur bones." The rhythmical text and lively, well-researched illustrations follow a paleontologist and his crew as they find, clean, assemble, and exhibit dinosaur bones. The read-aloud fun is accompanied by up-to-date facts about dinosaur fossils. Educational and inspiring, this story is bound to captivate little scientists.


The Dinosaur Artist

The Dinosaur Artist

Author: Paige Williams

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2018-09-11

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 0316382507

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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.


The San Rafael Swell

The San Rafael Swell

Author: Emery County Archives

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738548371

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The San Rafael Swell is an anticline, or a geological uplift, that originally looked like an oval bowl turned upside down. Over time it has been carved into castle-like formations and deep canyons by erosive conditions. This landscape seemed so formidable to early cartographers that it was the last area in the continental United States to be mapped. The San Rafael Swell itself has no permanent human inhabitants, but small towns are scattered along its northern and eastern borders where first American Indians and later cowboys, ranchers, and miners made their homes. The hardy settlers of these towns familiarized themselves with what they called "the Desert" and gradually discovered its treasures and its secrets.