Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs By Phillip Manning
Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs By Phillip Manning
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This is a paleontological detective story, a 65-million-year-old case so cold it's the hottest development in modern dinosaur-hunting. The victim, a hadrosaur, was discovered in the Hell Creek Badlands of North Dakota in 1999 by an enthusiastic fossil hound named Tyler Lyson. What seemed at first glance a solid but routine find would soon reveal itself to be one of the rarest of all specimens- a dinosaur mummy, and not just any mummy, but perhaps the finest and most complete example ever unearthed.
But this book is more than a window into the far-distant past, it's also an account of a century and more of paleontological pioneers and a vivid portrait of the state of the art in modern paleontology. Phillip Manning calls upon many scientific disciplines and employs such high-tech tools as electron microscopes, LiDAR, and the world's largest CT scanner, originally built to examine NASA spacecraft, now put to work imagining enormous the ancient creature that died hundreds of millennia ago.
Soft cover.
Learn more about remainder marks HERE
This is a paleontological detective story, a 65-million-year-old case so cold it's the hottest development in modern dinosaur-hunting. The victim, a hadrosaur, was discovered in the Hell Creek Badlands of North Dakota in 1999 by an enthusiastic fossil hound named Tyler Lyson. What seemed at first glance a solid but routine find would soon reveal itself to be one of the rarest of all specimens- a dinosaur mummy, and not just any mummy, but perhaps the finest and most complete example ever unearthed.
But this book is more than a window into the far-distant past, it's also an account of a century and more of paleontological pioneers and a vivid portrait of the state of the art in modern paleontology. Phillip Manning calls upon many scientific disciplines and employs such high-tech tools as electron microscopes, LiDAR, and the world's largest CT scanner, originally built to examine NASA spacecraft, now put to work imagining enormous the ancient creature that died hundreds of millennia ago.
Soft cover.