Burlington Public Library

A visit to a museum of natural history provides a little boy with an introduction to the habits, characteristics, and habitats of fourteen kinds of dinosaurs.

"The story of President Thomas Jefferson's quest to locate and assemble the first full mastodon skeleton in American history."--

Discusses the methods used by paleontologists to decipher clues found in ancient bones and fossils which provide our only means of learning how dinosaurs lived and then became extinct.

Describes, using evidence found in fossil layers, how one-cell organisms evolved into complex plants and animals.

In 2011, twelve-year-old Sylvan Bald didn't want to go on a hike with his parents. Once on teh trail, he was happy to be outside on a gorgeous fall day in the San Juan Mountains in Southwest Colorado. Being an avid rock hound, he ran up and down the trail looking all around at stones, pocketing those that struck his fancy. Out of the corner of his eye, Sylvan saw some blue stones embedded in a bigger rock right off the trail. However, they looked...

Profiles over 600 extinct dinosaurs and prehistoric creatures.

In Wyoming in the 1880s, a young boy fulfills his dream of finding a dinosaur skeleton on his father's ranch, outwits a man who would cheat him, and sells his find to a team of fossil hunters.