Discoveries: FossilsAn informative and copiously illustrated exploration of the discovery of prehistoric humans and the development of the science of paleontology examines how humankind's fascination with the past of the human race has helped us understand our place in the world. Original. |
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... footprints he had discovered in the Connecticut River valley were made by gigantic birds and identified them as such in the so - called Appleton Cabinet at Amherst College ( opposite ) . What he had found were actually the footprints of ...
... footprints he had discovered in the Connecticut River valley were made by gigantic birds and identified them as such in the so - called Appleton Cabinet at Amherst College ( opposite ) . What he had found were actually the footprints of ...
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... footprints and other fossil vestiges are fragile , intimate traces of biological activity that have been miraculously preserved . Research into this phenomenon blossomed into a full - fledged discipline known as paleoichnology . People ...
... footprints and other fossil vestiges are fragile , intimate traces of biological activity that have been miraculously preserved . Research into this phenomenon blossomed into a full - fledged discipline known as paleoichnology . People ...
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... footprints . Drawings in Louis Figuier , La Terre Avant le Déluge , 1886 163 Fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous of western Morocco . Photograph 1641 Carboniferous fossil ferns . Photograph 164-5 Franz Unger ...
... footprints . Drawings in Louis Figuier , La Terre Avant le Déluge , 1886 163 Fossilized dinosaur footprints from the Cretaceous of western Morocco . Photograph 1641 Carboniferous fossil ferns . Photograph 164-5 Franz Unger ...
Contents
MYTHS AND LEGENDS | 11 |
THE QUEST FOR MEANING | 27 |
THE AGE OF SCIENTISTS | 59 |
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19th century Albert Gaudry Aldrovandi amateur ammonites anatomy ancient animal's animals Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Bernard Palissy Bernissart Bibliothèque bird Carboniferous Carnegie Charles collection Como Bluff Conrad Gesner creatures Cretaceous d'Orbigny Darwin dinosaur Diplodocus discovered discovery dragon earth elephant Engraving epoch Europe evolution excavation feet ferns Flood footprints fossil hunters fossil remains France geological Georges Cuvier Georges-Louis Leclerc Histoire Naturelle History in Paris huge human giants ichthyosaur identified Iguanodon Jurassic laboratory land layers Leclerc de Buffon legend Lithograph living mammals mammoth Mantell marine Marsh McDunn Mesozoic microscope million years ago mineral MNHN monster Montmartre Museum of Natural Natural History naturalist Neanderthal organisms Owen paleontology paleontology gallery petrified Photograph Pikermi plants plesiosaurs prehistoric preserved quarry reconstructions Red Deer River region reptiles rock Scheuchzer scientists sediments shark shells skeleton skull species specimens Stensen stone surface teeth thousand tooth tree vanished vertebrates York Yvette Gayrard-Valy