What was the world like millions of years ago? Did early humans walk on all fours? Did giant sloths lie in trees? Did dinosaurs have feathers? Even as a young girl, Mary Leakey was fascinated by questions like these! In Fossil Huntress: Mary Leakey, Paleontologist, readers ages 5 to 8 meet Mary as a girl growing up in France and visiting the site of archeological wonders, such as Pech Merle, Fo…
Evolution: why did fish grow feet? is a fun, non-fiction narrative story of evolution. Rodent narrator Nippy takes us on a journey through time, looking at the events on our planet, from the first stages of life to our own appearance on Earth. This is a fun, informative and accessible book through which children can discover how our planet and the wonderful diverse creatures that have lived on …
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived -- a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.