Halliday, Thomas
Summary: The thought that something as vast as the Great Barrier Reef, with all its vibrant diversity, might one day soon be gone sounds improbable. But fossil record show that this sort of wholesale change is not only possible but has repeatedly happened throughout Earth history. Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page as he explores the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 HALChilds, Craig
Summary: "From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.7 CHIPielou, E. C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Chicago Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.17 PIESummary: The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EARDavid, James F.
Summary: A decade after a cataclysmic time disruption brings elements from the Cretaceous period into the twentieth century, Nick Paulson discovers that the cause is an unknown force in the center of a dinosaur-infested jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVNorell, Mark.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 567.909 NORPanafieu, Jean-Baptiste de.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2011
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Summary: Presents illustrated scenes of the Mesozoic Era and modern-day paleontology, in which children may search for hidden pictures. Explanatory text accompanies each scene. --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. 2017
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Summary: Today we take for granted the idea that dinosaurs once roamed the earth. But two hundred years ago, the very concept of an extinct species did not exist. When an English scientist proposed in 1841 that Dino Saurs ("terrible lizards") had come and gone, it was only a theory, a new way of explaining the "dragon" and "giant" bones scattered across the globe. But when proof turned up seventeen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 560 NOYSutherland, Stuart
Summary: Join the Smithsonian to explore the latest paleontological discoveries and what they reveal about life on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560 INTCall number: DVD 560 INT
West, David
Summary: PREHISTORIC! is a series of illustrated books that captures some of the amazing creatures that roamed the Earth from before the dinosaurs to the rise of humans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A+, Smart Apple Media 2015