In an exciting story of search and discovery, two of the country’s top paleontologists describe their recent expedition to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. Readers travel along with the scientists as they make a spectacular find, then travel back to the museum to learn how a dinosaur skeleton is preserved and studied. The scientific process and the elusive Velociraptor come to life in this bold photo essay. 
 1996 ‘Pick of the Lists’ (ABA) Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1997 (NSTA/CBC)

Searching for Velociraptor

Children's Books

Dingus, Dr. Lowell

Animals

Harpercollins

From the 18th-century fascination with sea dragons, to Barnum Brown's 1902 excavation of the most complete T. rex skeleton yet found, to today's cutting-edge DNA research, here are the inspiring stories of the scientists who furthered our knowledge of dinosaurs. Produced with the famed American Museum of Natural History in New York--the world's foremost authority on dinosaur research--this beautiful book contains 15 facsimile documents, including letters and sketches from such famed fossil hunters as Mary Anning and Gideon Mantell, plus rare photographs and maps!

The Dinosaur Hunters: The Extraordinary Story of the Men and Women Who Discovered Prehistoric Life

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Carlton Books

100 years after Barnum Brown's excavation of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton the world had ever seen, The Dinosaur Hunters tells the story of our discovery of dinosaurs, from eighteenth-century interest in sea dragons to present-day work with DNA, through the men and women who dedicated their lives to furthering our knowledge.Through the inclusion of facsimile documents, rare photographs and hand-drawn maps, you can travel the world and the centuries. You will unearth Iguanodon teeth with Gideon and Mary Mantell, uncover Archaeopteryx feathers with Hermann von Meyer, fight in the 1870's Bone Wars and analyze the Sinornithosaurus with Chinese scientists Ji Qiang and Ju Shu-An.

Dinosaur Hunters

Metro Books Carlton Books

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