Presents a photographic introduction to fossils, explaining what they are, looking at different types of fossils, and discussing what they reveal about the past.

"The story of life during the past two billion years. . . Here the Fentons tell what fossils are, where they are found, what they mean, and how they are related to plants, animals, and other creatures living on earth today."

Unique 3-D color photography that you can really see! Discover the real world of dinosaurs with amazing 3-D pictures that allow the reader to spy on fierce, meat-eating dinosaurs or their extraordinary plant-eating cousins. Examine a dinosaur's teeth or peer into a nest full of eggs. A new way of seeing, a new way of learning! With it's dazzling 3-D color photos and unique mirror viewer, 3-D Eyewitness reveals the natural world as never seen before....

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

"Fossil Men is the riveting science-adventure story of the brilliant team who discovered the "Ardi" skeleton, a human more than a million years older than the famous Lucy, and their 20-year quest to redefine our understanding of human evolution."--

Rhyming text and illustrations present a broad range of prehistoric mammals, from the ratlike Triconodon to the spectacular Woolly Mammoth.

Discusses the latest information available on dinosaurs, especially the discoveries made at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah.

Text and art portray over 100 prehistoric reptiles of land, sea, and air, including the reptiles that preceded the dinosaurs, the dinosaur giants of the Mesozoic Era, and the large reptiles of the age of mammals.