Locked in Time
Book description
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or…
Why read it?
1 author picked Locked in Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is about dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts, but it’s unique and unusual.
Author Dean Lomax has run to ground some of the most extraordinary fossils ever found, and artist Bob Nicholls turns them into stunning reconstructions. Here you can read about a beetle within a lizard within a snake, a giant beaver that made huge corkscrew burrows 3 meters deep, the mammal that ate dinosaurs, insects caught in the act of mating, and dinosaurs with cancer.
What I like is that, weird and wonderful as each story may be, each is based strictly on the fossils and reasonable interpretations…
From Michael's list on dinosaurs from a palaeontologist.
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