Relates the true story of a dog who helped his owner, twelve-year-old Mary Ann Anning, to find dinosaur bones in Lyme Regis, England, including an ichthyosaurus, a plesiosaur, and the first pterodactyl.

Born on February 12, 1873, Barnum Brown was an explorer from the very beginning. His love of dinosaurs brought him to New York City, where he went to work for the American Museum of Natural History. His job was to search for dinoausr fossils. He became one of the best dinosaur finders, and many of his discoveries are in the museum.

A biography of the scientist-adventurer, Roy Chapman Andrews, focusing on the expeditions he led for New York's American Museum of Natural History to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in an effort to uncover dinosaur fossils.