A museum palaeontologist explains for general readers what fossils are, why so few creatures leave them, and how bones are trapped in quicksand, turned to stone or lost forever. Lucas goes on to the earliest vertebrates, the great reptiles and extinct mammals, poking fun at the experts who once mounted a dinosaur’s hip as its shoulder blade, with restorations drawn by Charles R. Knight.
Clear, good-humoured popular science from the early years of American dinosaur hunting. Download the free EPUB.