Digging Up Dinosaurs
by Jack Horner
illustrations by Robert Rath
and Phil Wilson
published by Farcountry Press
- More than just a book about dinosaurs, Digging Up Dinosaurs teaches kids ages 8 to 12 about paleontology through the remarkable story of the recent discovery of a Tyrannosaurus rex bone with flexible blood vessels, found in Montana.
Horner takes kids along on the dig, explaining step by step how fossils are formed, the best places to find them, what it takes to get them out of the ground, and what the fossils tell us about the dinosaurs that ruled Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
48 pages, 8 1/2'' x 11'', 42 color photos, 105 illustrations, 4 map(s), index, glossary, 68 softcovers per case, Smythe-sewn
softcover
ISBN 10: 1560373962
ISBN 13: 9781560373964
$14.95
- Fully Illustrated!
- Includes dinosaur-dig and fossil photos from Jack Horner's personal collection
- Details how paleontologists find and unearth dinosaur skeletons
- Profiles dinosaurs that once roamed Montana, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota
- Shows some of the most important discoveries made by the Jack Horner crew
- Details the story of the recent, world-famous discovery of a T. rex fossil bone with flexible blood vessels
Storm Chasers! On the Trail of Twisters
Going Along the Emigrant Trails
Going Along with Lewis and Clark
Going to Glacier National Park
Going to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
| Digging Up Dinosaurs |
| Looking for Bones
When looking for fossils, we just start walking and looking around. Bob went off in one direction, and I went in another. We spread out to cover more land. Bob climbed up on a high ledge to have his lunch. After he ate his sandwich, he turned around and looked at the big cliff behind him. Sticking out of the cliff was a patch of white bone! Bob couldn't reach the bone. It was too high! He stacked up some rocks and climbed on top of them, but he still couldn't reach the bone. So he walked all the way back to camp and got a chair. He balanced the chair on the stack of rocks and got a close-up look at the bone. It was a foot bone - called a metatarsal (MET-uh-TAR-suhl) from a Tyrannosaurus rex! -pages 14-15 |
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Jack Horner was born in Shelby, Montana, and discovered his first dinosaur fossil at age 8. He has been involved with some of the most important recent dinosaur discoveries, including a Maiasaura nest at Montana's Egg Mountain and Tyrannosaurus rex fossils that contain flexible blood vessels. Horner was the technical advisor for all the Jurassic Park movies, and the character of Alan Grant was based on him. He is the Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, teaches at Montana State University, and was named the Montana state paleontologist. |
AWARDS:
- Finalist, ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards, Juvenile Nonfiction, 2007
- Finalist, Ben Franklin Book Awards, Science and Environment, 2008