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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 1060L
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
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"Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 760L
Language
English
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In 1811, while exploring the cliffs near Lyme Regis, England, 12-year-old Mary Anning made the find of a lifetime. There in the rocks was the skeleton of a strange creature. Mary's find was later named Ichthyosaurus, a reptile that lived more than 250 million years ago. Anning went on to have a long career finding and identifying dinosaur fossils. However, her work often went unrecognized by male scientists of the time, and she received little credit...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
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Darwin's theory of evolution, published in 1859, shook up the field of paleontology, the study of ancient plants and animals. Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope, enthralled with these new ideas, discoveries, and developments, became determined to become world-famous paleontologists. When they met in 1863, they started off as friends. But within a few years, competition drove them apart. Each fought bitterly to discover more fossils, name...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
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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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Every year millions of museum visitors marvel at the skeletons of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures discovered by John Bell Hatcher. The life of the "King of Collectors" is every bit as fascinating as the mighty bones and fossils he unearthed. Hatcher helped discover and mount much of the Carnegie Museum's world famous, 150 million-year-old skeleton of Diplodocus, a slender-necked, long-tailed, plant-eater whose skeleton has captivated our...
47) Dinosaur wars
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
From producer Mark Davis, is the story of two talented scientists, O.C. Marsh and Edward Cope, whose once professional rivalry soured into a bitter personal feud. Together, Marsh and Cope were responsible for identifying more than 142 different species and for introducing dinosaurs into the American imagination, but their legacy would be forever marred by two decades of ruthless infighting, espionage, and sabotage.
48) Dinosaur hunters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Describes the work scientists do to find out more about these huge prehistoric animals.
49) Dinosaur Empire!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Ronnie is just a normal fifth-grader trying to pass her science class's impossible quiz on the history of dinosaurs . . . until she happens upon her neighbor-Ms. Lernin-a retired paleontologist. With the assistance of Science Magic, Ronnie and Ms. Lernin travel back through time and space to experience the Mesozoic Era firsthand. They visit three important time periods in the development of the Mesozoic Era: the Triassic, the Jurassic, and the Cretaceous....
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Series
Pirates of Montana volume 01
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Rome, 306 A.D. Emperor Constantine converts the Roman Empire to Christianity. Over the next two decades, his armies destroy pagan idols across Europe and the Middle East. England, 1830 A.D. Paleontologist Mary Anning writes to Sir Richard Owen, describing a fossil that she discovered in the cliffs of Lyme-Regis. She writes that the fossil is a large wing made of black bone. Montana, 2020 A.D. Sixteen-year-old Molly Tanner discovers...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 trying to find the most important never-before-seen discoveries"...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs describe the competition among late nineteenth-century paleontologists to discover dinosaur fossils as well as work of contemporary paleontologists and how the work of these dinosaur hunters has led to an increased understanding of how these prehistoric animals lived.
57) Inside dinosaurs
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Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Experts from the world-famous American Museum of Natural History recreate the world of the dinosaurs as it was over 250 million years ago.
58) Dinosaur fossils
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Series
Language
English
Description
Explains the significance of dinosaur fossils and the work of paleontologists.
59) Dinosaur fossils
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Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes dinosaur fossils, such as Parasaurolophus, Hypsilophodon, and Stygimoloch
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