The Fossil Factory A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils
by Eldredge, Niles; Eldredge, Douglas; Eldredge, GregoryEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-07-23
Publisher(s): Roberts Rinehart
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Summary
A fun and fact-filled activity book about discovering and collecting fossils, the history of the Earth, and the record of life we find on its surface.
Author Biography
Niles Eldredge is a Curator of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His sons, Gregory and Douglas, help their father out on fossilhunting expeditions
Table of Contents
| Dig In! | p. 8 |
| How Animals Disappear | p. 10 |
| A Grave Matter | p. 10 |
| Hard Rock, Soft Rock | p. 11 |
| Making a Good Impression | p. 12 |
| Cast Party | p. 13 |
| Out in the Field | p. 14 |
| Collecting Dos and Don'ts | p. 16 |
| Bumper Outcrops | p. 18 |
| Bubble, Bubble, Soil and Rubble | p. 18 |
| Fossil Spotting | p. 19 |
| Digging Up More Facts | p. 19 |
| Taking Care of Your Fossils | p. 20 |
| The Elusive Dinosaur | p. 21 |
| A Lucky Trip | p. 21 |
| Once Upon a Time | p. 22 |
| Here, Dino! | p. 22 |
| Right from the Start | p. 24 |
| Fossil Riddles (As Old as the Hills) | p. 26 |
| Gondwana What? | p. 28 |
| Bump and Grind | p. 30 |
| Which Came First? | p. 31 |
| Carbon Dating | p. 31 |
| A Sedimental Journey | p. 34 |
| Make Your Own Grand Canyon | p. 35 |
| Cool Times | p. 36 |
| The Continental | p. 38 |
| Dinosaur Hunting | p. 40 |
| Living Fossils | p. 41 |
| Double Treat on the Beach | p. 42 |
| Caught in the Act | p. 43 |
| What, No Fossils Near You? | p. 44 |
| Assembly Required | p. 45 |
| In the Living World | p. 46 |
| Skin and Bones | p. 47 |
| Dinosaur Detectives | p. 48 |
| Iggy Pop | p. 49 |
| Stuck on Fossils | p. 50 |
| The World's Biggest Model Airplane | p. 51 |
| The First Fossils | p. 52 |
| Climbing Our Family Tree | p. 53 |
| Pure Shellfishness | p. 54 |
| A Squirt of a Squid | p. 55 |
| Trilobites | p. 56 |
| Ex-animals | p. 57 |
| Danger! | p. 57 |
| It's Easy Being Green | p. 58 |
| Green Slime | p. 60 |
| Something Fishy | p. 61 |
| Amphibious Landings | p. 62 |
| Frog Babies | p. 63 |
| Thick-skinned | p. 64 |
| The Naked Egg | p. 65 |
| The Oldest Trees | p. 66 |
| The Age of Reptiles | p. 67 |
| The Great | p. 68 |
| The Terrible | p. 69 |
| Neither Fish nor Fowl | p. 70 |
| Meet the Duckbills | p. 72 |
| Walking Tanks | p. 73 |
| Say It with Flowers | p. 74 |
| Were Dinosaurs Dumb? | p. 76 |
| Gone! | p. 78 |
| Meteors and Meat-eaters | p. 79 |
| Going, Going ... | p. 80 |
| What If? | p. 81 |
| Mammal Time | p. 82 |
| Our Nearest Relatives | p. 84 |
| Lucy and the Fossil People | p. 85 |
| Thrice the Rice | p. 85 |
| Standing Tall | p. 86 |
| Land of the Giants | p. 88 |
| The First Americans | p. 90 |
| Future Humans | p. 92 |
| Time Line | p. 94 |
| Hunting on Holiday | p. 100 |
| Index | p. 109 |
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