"An absorbing history of changing views of what fossils are and how they contribute to an understanding of the history of the earth. Rudwick makes ample use of

"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' vie

For at least half a million years, people have been doing some very strange things with fossils. Long before a few seventeenth-century minds started to decipher

Unearth the treasures from the prehistoric world underneath your feet. From glittering ammonites to razor-sharp dinosaur claws and delicate leaf impressions, un

Explains how fossils are formed and what they tell us about the past.