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Fossils Books
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Remarkable Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.89 — 55,309 ratings — published 2009
The Fossil Girl: Mary Anning's Dinosaur Discovery (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.65 — 123 ratings — published 1999
Ravished (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.02 — 22,118 ratings — published 1992
Dragon Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.86 — 48,221 ratings — published 2017
National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.30 — 150 ratings — published 1982
Fossils tell of long ago (Let's Read-And-Find-Out Science)
by (shelved 5 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.96 — 246 ratings — published 1972
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,641 ratings — published 2008
A Gift of Dust: How Saharan Plumes Feed the Planet (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.17 — 178 ratings — published
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,796 ratings — published 2018
A History of Life in 100 Fossils (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.96 — 102 ratings — published 2014
Skull in the Rock, The: How a Scientist, a Boy, and Google Earth Opened a New Window on Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.80 — 212 ratings — published 2012
Stone Girl, Bone Girl: The Story of Mary Anning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.96 — 346 ratings — published 1999
Handbooks: Fossils: The Clearest Recognition Guide Available (DK Smithsonian Handbook)
by (shelved 4 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.31 — 185 ratings — published 1992
The Dinosaur Expert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.07 — 470 ratings — published 2018
Tyrannosaur Canyon (Wyman Ford, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,076 ratings — published 2005
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,367 ratings — published 2009
Fossil (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.07 — 153 ratings — published 1990
Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.61 — 414 ratings — published 1990
Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.11 — 2,397 ratings — published 2000
Fossils: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.68 — 145 ratings — published 2005
Ivy and Bean Break the Fossil Record (Ivy & Bean #3)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,095 ratings — published 2007
Fossils: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.82 — 152 ratings — published 1962
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,242 ratings — published 1989
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.00 — 812 ratings — published 2000
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,303 ratings — published 2024
Dinosaur (Eyewitness Books)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.35 — 20 ratings — published
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.52 — 606 ratings — published 2009
The Fossil Whisperer: How Wendy Sloboda Discovered a Dinosaur (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.98 — 90 ratings — published
Dragon Bones: The Fantastic Fossil Discoveries of Mary Anning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.16 — 231 ratings — published 2022
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,860 ratings — published 1981
Beguiling the Beauty (Fitzhugh Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,273 ratings — published 2012
Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.25 — 653 ratings — published 2016
Rhinos in Nebraska: The Amazing Discovery of the Ashfall Fossil Beds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.24 — 150 ratings — published 2021
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,726 ratings — published 2018
Bones in the White House: Thomas Jefferson's Mammoth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.69 — 143 ratings — published 2020
Ice Age Mammals of North America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.07 — 41 ratings — published 2002
Mary Anning's Curiosity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.04 — 326 ratings — published 2017
When Sue Found Sue: Sue Hendrickson Discovers Her T. Rex (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.12 — 564 ratings — published 2019
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.98 — 71,640 ratings — published 2016
Grand Canyon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,679 ratings — published 2017
Rare Treasure: Mary Anning and Her Remarkable Discoveries (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.78 — 93 ratings — published 1999
Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.85 — 97 ratings — published 1999
Living Fossils: Clues to the Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.82 — 50 ratings — published 2016
Curiosity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.66 — 445 ratings — published 2010
Dinosaur Bones (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.76 — 66 ratings — published 1988
Digging Up Dinosaurs (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 3.76 — 409 ratings — published 1981
A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,237 ratings — published 2012
Rocks & Fossils (Nature Company Guides)
by (shelved 2 times as fossils)
avg rating 4.21 — 72 ratings — published 1996
“The traces of the dinosaurs howl in our memories. Had they been alive we would have exterminated them, but we respect their traces. It is the same with the human race: the more we imperil it, the more meticulously we preserve its remains.”
― Fragments
― Fragments
“… if some metaphors can persist in the language as fossils, it puts every metaphor under a cloud of suspicion.”
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
― The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature














