Table of Contents; Introduction; How Do Fossils Form?; What Can You Learn From Fossils?; Mass Extinction and Meteor Collisions With Earth; How Are Fossils Collected and Prepared?; How Can You Tell the Age of Earth?; How Did Dinosaurs Evolve?; Diversity, Classification, and Taxonomy; Fossils in Society; When Are Fossils Art?; Glossary; Index
Summary
"This book helps students learn by doing. Why look at a picture of a fossil cast in a book when you can make one? Why listen to a lecture about meteorites when you can collect them yourself?"--Co-author Thor Hansen Millions of years after vanishing from Earth, dinosaurs still have the power to stir students' curiosity
