Fossils


Remarkable Creatures
Fossil
The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery
Ravished
Dragon Teeth
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 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)
The Dinosaur Expert
Argonaut The Inua Humpback by Clifford L. GionetHard Aground with Eddie Jones by Eddie       JonesHard Aground . . . Again by Eddie       JonesMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergBournemouth Boys and Boscombe Girls by Danny Winter
At the Seashore
132 books — 36 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteWonderful Life by Stephen Jay GouldT. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter ÁlvarezThe Ancestor's Tale by Richard DawkinsTrilobite by Richard Fortey
Learn about prehistoric life
51 books — 45 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteThe Great Dinosaur Debate by Robert T. BakkerT. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter ÁlvarezMy Beloved Brontosaurus by Brian SwitekThe Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs by Gregory S. Paul
The Best Non-fiction Dinosaur Books
144 books — 98 voters
Finding Esme by Suzanne CrowleyMary 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 Dickinson
Paleontology in Children's Fiction
37 books — 7 voters

John Lubbock
What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
John Lubbock, The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in

Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens, All the Year Round: Contributions

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