The Fossil Factory A Kid's Guide to Digging

A fun and fact-filled activity book about discovering and collecting fossils, the history of the Earth, and the record of life we find on its surface.

Niles Eldredge is a Curator of Invertebrates at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. His sons, Gregory and Douglas, help their father out on fossilhunting expeditions

Dig In!	p. 8
How Animals Disappear	p. 10
A Grave Matter	p. 10
Hard Rock, Soft Rock	p. 11
Making a Good Impression	p. 12
Cast Party	p. 13
Out in the Field	p. 14
Collecting Dos and Don'ts	p. 16
Bumper Outcrops	p. 18
Bubble, Bubble, Soil and Rubble	p. 18
Fossil Spotting	p. 19
Digging Up More Facts	p. 19
Taking Care of Your Fossils	p. 20
The Elusive Dinosaur	p. 21
A Lucky Trip	p. 21
Once Upon a Time	p. 22
Here, Dino!	p. 22
Right from the Start	p. 24
Fossil Riddles (As Old as the Hills)	p. 26
Gondwana What?	p. 28
Bump and Grind	p. 30
Which Came First?	p. 31
Carbon Dating	p. 31
A Sedimental Journey	p. 34
Make Your Own Grand Canyon	p. 35
Cool Times	p. 36
The Continental	p. 38
Dinosaur Hunting	p. 40
Living Fossils	p. 41
Double Treat on the Beach	p. 42
Caught in the Act	p. 43
What, No Fossils Near You?	p. 44
Assembly Required	p. 45
In the Living World	p. 46
Skin and Bones	p. 47
Dinosaur Detectives	p. 48
Iggy Pop	p. 49
Stuck on Fossils	p. 50
The World's Biggest Model Airplane	p. 51
The First Fossils	p. 52
Climbing Our Family Tree	p. 53
Pure Shellfishness	p. 54
A Squirt of a Squid	p. 55
Trilobites	p. 56
Ex-animals	p. 57
Danger!	p. 57
It's Easy Being Green	p. 58
Green Slime	p. 60
Something Fishy	p. 61
Amphibious Landings	p. 62
Frog Babies	p. 63
Thick-skinned	p. 64
The Naked Egg	p. 65
The Oldest Trees	p. 66
The Age of Reptiles	p. 67
The Great	p. 68
The Terrible	p. 69
Neither Fish nor Fowl	p. 70
Meet the Duckbills	p. 72
Walking Tanks	p. 73
Say It with Flowers	p. 74
Were Dinosaurs Dumb?	p. 76
Gone!	p. 78
Meteors and Meat-eaters	p. 79
Going, Going ...	p. 80
What If?	p. 81
Mammal Time	p. 82
Our Nearest Relatives	p. 84
Lucy and the Fossil People	p. 85
Thrice the Rice	p. 85
Standing Tall	p. 86
Land of the Giants	p. 88
The First Americans	p. 90
Future Humans	p. 92
Time Line	p. 94
Hunting on Holiday	p. 100
Index	p. 109
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The Fossil Factory A Kid's Guide to Digging Up Dinosaurs, Exploring Evolution, and Finding Fossils

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