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Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs
An Expedition to Madagascar
By Bishop, Nic
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-39596-056-1
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on May 1, 2000
Gr 5-8 This attractive photo-essay focuses on Cathy Forster, a specialist in bird fossils, and on a 1998 expedition to the island of Madagascar. Working a fossil "quarry" of animals apparently drowned and deposited during a long-ago deluge, the paleontologists discover an engrossing m lange of pieces of Late Cretaceous creatures, mostly new to science. Fragments of prehistoric snakes, crocodilians, fish, and turtles mix with sauropods, theropods, and birdlike remains. Th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
