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The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the World's Greatest Mysteries

By Ian Lendler
Illustrators Illustrated by C. M. Butzer Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Margaret K. McElderry ISBN

9781534427006

Awards and Honors NSTA Best STEM Books - 2020
Kirkus Best Books - 2019

The First Dinosaur: How Science Solved the World's Greatest Mysteries

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Dinosaurs existed. That’s a fact we accept today. But not so long ago, the concept that these giant creatures could have roamed Earth millions of years before humans was unfathomable. People thought what we know as dinosaur bones were the bones of giant humans. Of large elephants. Of angels, even.



So, how did we get from angel wings to the T-Rex? The First Dinosaur tells the story of the idea of dinosaurs, and the chain of fossil discoveries and advances in science that led to that idea. Be prepared to meet eccentric men and overlooked women who uncovered the pieces to a puzzle so much bigger than themselves, a puzzle far stranger and more spectacular than they could have ever imagined.



Epilogue. Bibliography. Index. Full-color photographs, reproductions, and illustrations rendered in pen, ink, and digitally.
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High-Interest Nonfiction Middle Plus (Grades 5-8)

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