Product Description: In 2010, the Royal Society named Mary Anning one of the 10 British women most influential in the history of science. Though she wasnt appreciated in her time because she was a woman, Anning certainly earned this distinction. Readers are introduced to one of the premier fossil hunters of 19th century England through biography, historic images, and detailed sidebars...read more

Product Description: Without paleontologists, we'd know very little about dinosaurs and other prehistoric forms of life. These scientists painstakingly locate fossils, remove them from the earth, and study them to find out what they can reveal about life long ago...read more

Product Description: "The articles collected in this volume ... are meant to give an overview of what we've come to learn about dinosaurs. Because our understanding grows and changes with each new discovery, the selections were culled exclusively from the past decade...read more

Product Description: This introduction to paleontology weaves together facts about fossil hunting with fictionalized first-person accounts from dinosaur detectives.