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Fossiles Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Fossils Fossils Juvenile literature Glacial epoch JUVENILE NONFICTION / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures Paleontology Paleontology Juvenile literature Paléontologie Ouvrages pour la jeunesse Pleistocene Geologic Epoch Prehistoric peoplesSummary: Sir David Attenborough drops in for tea at the modest suburban home of Neville and Sally Hollingworth, both amateur fossil hunters in southern England. He's there to look at some of the unusual objects that decorate their living room, including giant tusks and massive molars that belonged to extinct mammoths and a hand-axe shaped by Neanderthals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GREMartin, Helen M. (Helen Mandeville)
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Printed by the William Feather Co.] 1939
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 551.31 MARHalliday, Thomas
Summary: The thought that something as vast as the Great Barrier Reef, with all its vibrant diversity, might one day soon be gone sounds improbable. But fossil record show that this sort of wholesale change is not only possible but has repeatedly happened throughout Earth history. Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page as he explores the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Peacock, Doug.
Summary: For the past 12,000 years, the earth has experienced a relatively stable climate. Today, that predictability has ended, and global warming is our new reality. Yet such shifting weather patterns threatened Homo sapiens once before, right here in North America as the continent was first being colonized. About 15,000 years ago, the weather began to warm, melting the glaciers of the Late...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CounterPunch 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 PEAChilds, Craig
Summary: "From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.7 CHIHancock, Graham.
Summary: The author recounts his participation in explorations of underwater ruins to search for evidence of ancient cities that existed during the last Ice Age, and discusses how the stories of these cities are preserved in ancient myths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.7 HANSummary: "Introduce young readers to the wonders of the prehistoric era and answer little kids' big questions about dinosaurs. Covering millions of years of prehistory and following in the footprints of the biggest reptiles to walk the Earth . . ."--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Applesauce Press 2023
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Summary: "Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 560.92 KURLerwill, Ben
Summary: "Are you brave enough to come face-to-face with the biggest and most awe-inspiring prehistoric beasts? In this dramatic introduction to the Stone Age world, the stupendous giants that shared the earth with our human ancestors--from the woolly mammoth and the fearsome saber-toothed cat to the elephant bird and the giant wombat--leap, slither, and swoop to life on eighteen atmospheric and densely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
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Summary: "Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they've made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That's only fair, though--after all, it's how knowledge advances!"-- Publisher's website
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A team of intrepid paleontologists recently discovered a lost world of dinosaurs in the unlikeliest of places - deep in the dark, snowy wilds of northern Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALAHolmes, Kirsty
Summary: "Fossils are our key to the far past. Remains or even just traces of life from earlier eras have allowed us to reconstruct various times and places far different from our modern period. The most famous, perhaps, are those fossils that dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures left behind. In this high-interest volume, readers will gain an understanding of different kinds of fossils as well as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2022
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Summary: This title explores tools, methods, discoveries, and careers in the Paleontology field. Accompanying the main text are activities from a felt mammoth to soap fossils. These crafts encourage readers to engage with what they learned, solidifying their new knowledge. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkered Library 2024
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J507.8 OLSOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: The Ice Age is very cool ... for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure -- not even a saber-toothed tiger!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC OSBSummary: With the help of stunningly realistic animation, Nova takes viewers back to the Ice Age to reveal what happened when an enormous ice dam broke, unleashing a titanic flood that swept herds of woolly mammoth and everything else into oblivion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MYSHolman, J. Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 566.0977 HOLSummary: The revealing documentary of Earth explores the planet's most epic moments. From the first raindrops that turned it into a water world to the arrival of its most incredible inhabitants, us. But humans take a back seat in this narrative. Instead, Earth is placed center stage. We see what happened to our world before we even crawled from the mud, including massive bombardments from space, extreme...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Turner, Pamela S.
Summary: "A celebrated science writer draws upon the most recent discoveries in paleoarchaeology and evolutionary biology to present the seven most important steps leading to Homo sapiens"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2022