Fossils


Remarkable Creatures
Fossil
Dragon Teeth
The Fossil Girl
Ravished
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils
Fossils tell of long ago (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science)
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
A History of Life in 100 Fossils
Skull in the Rock, The: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning
Handbooks: Fossils: The Clearest Recognition Guide Available (DK Smithsonian Handbook)
Mary Anning's Curiosity by Monica KullingMy Daniel by Pam ConradFanny and the Monsters and Other Stories by Penelope LivelyA Bone from a Dry Sea by Peter DickinsonThe Bone Wars by Kathryn Lasky
Paleontology in Children's Fiction
38 books — 9 voters
Cod by Mark KurlanskyThe Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleOne Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. SeussA River Runs Through It and Other Stories by Norman Maclean
Finding Out About Fish
111 books — 48 voters

Keiko's Story by Linda M. KurthArgonaut The Inua Humpback by Clifford L. GionetHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny Winter
At the Seashore
136 books — 43 voters
Chicken Frank, Dinosaur! by S.K. WengerEncyclopedia Prehistorica by Robert SabudaThe Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara KerleyDanny and the Dinosaur by Syd HoffA Night in the Dinosaur Graveyard by A.J. Wood
Picture Books About Dinosaurs
88 books — 18 voters


Tracy Chevalier
“ I do not respect you, and I will never let you have any of my fossil fish ”
― Tracy Chevalier, Remarkable Creatures

“ The phrase 'the fossil record' sounds impressive and authoritative. As used by some persons it becomes, as intended, intimidating, taking on the aura of esoteric truth as expounded by an elite class of specialists. But what is it, really, this fossil record? Only data in search of interpretation. All claims to the contrary that I know, and I know of several, are so much superstition. ...more ”
― Gareth J. Nelson

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