Noah the Moa
Noah the Moa

Author: Janet Martin

Publisher:

Published: 2012-04-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780473195014

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"Once upon a time in a place called Aotearoa there roamed gigantic flightless birds called moa. Sadly they are now extinct, alive only in our dreams and imaginations ... or are they? A tale of a young boy's encounter with the mighty Noah the Moa"--Back cover. Includes sheet music showing ukulele chords inside covers. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Noah's Ravens
Noah's Ravens

Author: James O. Farlow

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0253037166

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How can the tracks of dinosaurs best be interpreted and used to reconstruct them? In many Mesozoic sedimentary rock formations, fossilized footprints of bipedal, three-toed (tridactyl) dinosaurs are preserved in huge numbers, often with few or no skeletons. Such tracks sometimes provide the only clues to the former presence of dinosaurs, but their interpretation can be challenging: How different in size and shape can footprints be and yet have been made by the same kind of dinosaur? How similar can they be and yet have been made by different kinds of dinosaurs? To what extent can tridactyl dinosaur footprints serve as proxies for the biodiversity of their makers? Profusely illustrated and meticulously researched, Noah's Ravens quantitatively explores a variety of approaches to interpreting the tracks, carefully examining within-species and across-species variability in foot and footprint shape in nonavian dinosaurs and their close living relatives. The results help decipher one of the world's most important assemblages of fossil dinosaur tracks, found in sedimentary rocks deposited in ancient rift valleys of eastern North America. Those often beautifully preserved tracks were among the first studied by paleontologists, and they were initially interpreted as having been made by big birds—one of which was jokingly identified as Noah's legendary raven.

Return to Umbadinga
Return to Umbadinga

Author: Calie Coppinger

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 152897736X

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When Angus McCawtup High School is threatened with closure due to earthquake damage, two pupils come up with a bizarre idea that they present to the headmaster. For Professor Russell Sprout the thought of losing his beloved school and having to spend time with his wacky wife was all too much. As far as he was concerned, any idea was a good idea. The boys put it to the professor that they return to Umbadinga to look for precious stones to raise money for earthquake repairs. Reluctantly, Professor Sprout agreed, but he made one condition, that Miss Van Hyre and Mr Fields go with them as responsible adults. Now there's an oxymoron if ever there was one! Can they get back through the subterranean portal, especially as they don't know how they got through in the first place? What could possibly go wrong? You'll have to join the adventure and find out first hand...if you dare!

Too Much Temptation
Too Much Temptation

Author: Lori Foster

Publisher: Zebra Books

Published: 2023-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1420155741

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New York Times bestselling contemporary romance author Lori Foster--renowned for her special brand of sexy and mysterious heroes--promises to dazzle a whole new readership with this sensually repackaged classic tale of forbidden fruit and second chances. Sometimes too much of a good thing is the exact right amount... Awkward, insecure Grace Jenkins has had little experience with men. But that hasn't stopped her from dreaming hard about Noah Harper. Gorgeous, strong, and darkly sexy, Noah has a rough edge beneath his polish that promises no mercy in the bedroom. When Grace learns Noah's engagement has ended in scandal, she shyly offers him her support and her friendship. But Noah's looking for something extra . . . Noah wants Grace--badly. He wants to possess those curves that go on forever, to savor her sweet innocence, to take her to the limits of white-hot desire . . . again and again. What he doesn't want is anything more complicated than that, and he knows Grace is a woman who deserves better. Grace, however, knows exactly what she needs--the kind of ecstasy only Noah can give her. Brazenly, she accepts his offer, and Noah promises to make all her secret fantasies come true . . .

Moa
Moa

Author: Quinn Berentson

Publisher:

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781877517846

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The moa were the most unusual and unique family of birds that ever lived, a clan of feathered monsters that developed in isolation for many, many millions of years. They became extinct reasonably quickly after the arrival of the Maori, and were a distant memory by the time European explorers arrived. So the discovery and identification of their bones in the 1840s was a worldwide sensation, claimed by many to be the zoological find of the century. This book begins by recounting the story of discovery, which was characterised by an unbelievable amount of controversy and intrigue. Since then there has been an unbroken chain of new discoveries, culminating with intriguing revelations in recent years about the moa's biology, that have come to light through DNA testing and radio-dating. This is a fascinating and important book that richly recounts the life and death of our strangest bird. Packed with a fantastic range of illustrations, Moa fills an important gap in our natural history literature, a popular but serious book on this national icon.