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Dinosaur Detectives
By Peter Chrisp

Track dinosaurs with the earliest fossil hunters and modern-day geologists! Read about their amazing discoveries! These 48-page books about fascinating subjects like pirates, mummies, and volcanoes are for proficient readers who can understand a rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure.

Eyewitness Fossil
By Paul D. Taylor

 A photo essay about different types of fossils, from bacteria and algae to birds and mammals. Stunning real-life photographs of the spectacular remains of ancient lives offer a unique "eyewitness" view of what fossils are, how they were formed, and how they lived millions of years ago. See pearls that are 50 million years old, a dinosaur's toe, a troublesome "snake" that was turned to stone, a fossilized human being, and a snail made of precious stones.

Paleontology:The Study of Prehistoric Life
By Susan Heinrichs Gray

Presents general information about paleontologists and what they learn about prehistoric animals and vegetation by studying them.

Dinosaur Bone War: Cope and Marsh's Fossil Feud
By Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

Edward Drinker Cope was a charming man with a passion for old bones. Othniel Marsh was a stickler for procedure when he studied his fossil finds. They started as friends, sharing ideas and information, but after Marsh tried to poach Cope's digging site, they became bitter enemies. Their decades-long feud fueled their desire to dig up more bones, to discover new species, and to find ever bigger and more unusual dinosaurs.

Larry Gets Lost in Prehistoric Times: From Dinosaurs to the Stone Age
By John Skewes

Larry the lovable pup travels back in time to the pre-historic era and meets dinosaurs then tumbles foward to the Ice Ages where he meets a Wooly Mammoth, and on to the cavemen of the Stone Age.

Explore Fossils!
Written by Cynthia L. Brown and Grace Brown
Illustrated by Bryan Stone

Introduces readers to the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Through hands-on projects, vocabulary boxes, and high-interest content, children discover how fossils form and learn about the landscape and the plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists use radiometric dating to test these fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information.

The Awesome Book of Prehistoric Animals
By Johannah Gilman Paiva

Full of amazing illustrations, this book provides information about the animals that lived on Earth millions of years ago, and the few that managed to survive.

Prehistoric Actual Size
By Steve Jenkins

Learn what it's like to come face-to-face with some of the dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals that once roamed the Earth through these "actual-size" illustrations.

Animal Fossils
By Natalie Hyde

Perfect for the budding paleontologist, this book brings to life animals that lived long ago. With clear text and engaging questions, a full range of fossils from microscopic insects to gigantic prehistoric mammals is examined. Students are encouraged to discuss the idea of living fossils and examine how fossilized animals have adapted into life forms still present today.

Fossils
By Chris Oxlade

Find out how and why fossils form, how they have changed over time, what they look like, what they're made of, and much more!

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