Del Norte Public Library

Explains why the diversity of the Burgess Shale is important in understanding our past and evolution.

Presents information about fossils, describing their origins and appearance, where they occur, different kinds, how people find them, what they reveal about the past, and the role of fossil fuels.

"A young boy and his friends dig in their sandbox and pretend to be real paleontologists digging up dinosaur bones, showing what it's like to be a professional paleontologist"--

This is a description of how the Camarasaurus and other dinosaurs of what is now the state of Colorado survived and what they have in common with today's animals.

"One of New York Times Notable Books for 1997" Walter Alvarez is professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley. Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences...

Takes a tour of the Earth three hundred and twenty million years ago, during the Paleozoic Era, and investigates the plants and animals found there.

Surveys prehistoric life from the earliest stirrings of simple organisms to complex life forms, including reptiles and early humans.

Take a step back in time to explore all things dinosaur - from fossil hunters to baby dinosaurs.

Describes how paleontologists search for and study fossils.

A photo essay about different types of fossils, from bacteria and algae to birds and mammals.