The uncovering in the mid-1700s of fossilized mastodon bones and teeth at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, signaled the beginning of a great American adventure. The West was opening up and unexplored lands beckoned. Unimagined palaeontological treasures awaited discovery: strange horned mammals, birds with teeth, flying reptiles, gigantic fish, diminutive ...
Fossils have been vital to our understanding of the formation of the earth and the origins of all life on it. However, their impact has not been limited to debates about geology and evolution: attempts to explain their existence has shaken religion at its very roots, and they have remained a subject of ceaseless fascination for people of all ages ...
When Oakland catfood cannery worker Gus Openshaw's wife, kid, and arm are eaten by a sperm whale, he goes to sea to find the blubbery bastard and get revenge. Along the way he and his crew escape Death on a near-daily basis. Some days, Death wins.
This book explores the president's love for the natural world. Thomas Jefferson once wrote to a friend that politics was his 'duty' but natural history was his 'passion.' As this book shows, he was always a man for whom nature was important. With Jefferson's devotion to detailed knowledge, precise calculation, and rational inquiry, natural history ...
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