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Book

Stones and bones : fossils and the stories they tell

Call Number

  • J 560 WILS (OSH)

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Publication Information

London : Cicada Books Ltd, 2023.

Physical Description

81 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 31 cm

Audience

Primary to pre-adolescent.

Summary

Over the past four billion years, life on our planet has evolved from microscopic single-celled organisms to the incredible array of flora and fauna today. In the course of this time, layer upon layer of life was buried in sediment, turning into a fossilised record of the planet's history. This highly-illustrated, large-format book looks at all the incredible things that scientists have learned from the fossil record, including the ways in which continents have drifted, merged and fragmented again; and the life forms that have evolved and the great extinction events that wiped them out.

Notes

"First published in the UK, 2023, and in the USA, 2024"--Page facing title page.

Contents

  • What are fossils?
  • The Precambrian and Paleozoic eras
  • The Mesozoic era
  • The Cenozoic era
  • Paleontology today.

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