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Author : Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Release : 1909
Genre : Fossils
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Book Synopsis The Life of a Fossil Hunter by : Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Download or read book The Life of a Fossil Hunter written by Charles Hazelius Sternberg. This book was released on 1909. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shelley Emling
Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Fossil Hunter by : Shelley Emling
Download or read book The Fossil Hunter written by Shelley Emling. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the tongue-twister, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore." She attracted the attention of fossil collectors and eventually the scientific world. Once news of the fossils reached the halls of academia, it became impossible to ignore the truth. Mary's peculiar finds helped lay the groundwork for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, laid out in his On the Origin of Species. Darwin drew on Mary's fossilized creatures as irrefutable evidence that life in the past was nothing like life in the present. A story worthy of Dickens, The Fossil Hunter chronicles the life of this young girl, with dirt under her fingernails and not a shilling to buy dinner, who became a world-renowned paleontologist. Dickens himself said of Mary: "The carpenter's daughter has won a name for herself, and deserved to win it." Here at last, Shelley Emling returns Mary Anning, of whom Stephen J. Gould remarked, is "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology," to her deserved place in history.
Author : Cheryl Blackford
Release : 2022-01-25
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fossil Hunter by : Cheryl Blackford
Download or read book Fossil Hunter written by Cheryl Blackford. This book was released on 2022-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseverance of the woman herself, who from girlhood on scoured the shifting cliffs of her native Dorset to dig out prehistoric mysteries and make sense of them—altering forever our view of the past.” —Joyce Sidman, Newbery Honor winner and Sibert Medal winner A fascinating, highly visual biography of Mary Anning, the Victorian fossil hunter who changed scientific thinking about prehistoric life and would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists of all time. Perfect for children learning about woman scientists like Ada Lovelace, Jane Goodall, and Katherine Johnson. Mary Anning grew up on the south coast of England in a region rich in fossils. As teenagers, she and her brother Joseph discovered England’s first complete ichthyosaur. Poor and uneducated, Anning would become one of the most celebrated paleontologists ever, though in her time she supported herself selling by fossils and received little formal recognition. Her findings helped shape scientific thinking about extinction and prehistoric life long before Darwin published his famous work on evolution. With engaging text, photographs, and stunning paleoart, Fossil Hunter introduces this self-taught scientist, now recognized as one of the greatest fossilists the world has ever known.
Author : Sally M. Walker
Release : 2000-01-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Book Rating : 254/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Mary Anning by : Sally M. Walker
Download or read book Mary Anning written by Sally M. Walker. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the life of Mary Anning, who discovered many of the best and most complete fossils in nineteenth-century England, yet received little credit for her work.
Author : Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Release : 2014-08-07
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Life of a Fossil Hunter (1909) by : Charles Hazelius Sternberg
Download or read book The Life of a Fossil Hunter (1909) written by Charles Hazelius Sternberg. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1909 Edition.
