Reading between the bones: the pioneers of dinosaur paleontology
Sciences et technologies
Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
Profiles eight pioneers in the study of dinosaurs and explains how scientific knowledge is cumulative. Clinton notes that dinosaurs were unknown until 1824 when Georges Cuvier identified the first dinosaur bone, describing it as belonging to a whale-sized lizard. Now… three hundred kinds of dinosaurs are known to vertebrate paleontologists. For junior and senior high readers