A Travelers Guide To Tracking Dinosaurs In The Western United States PDF Download

Adventure Travel in the U.S. and CanadaAre you planning domestic adventure travel? Do you wonder what it would be like to search for rich fossil beds? To learn from leading experts about the rise and fall of the dinosaurs? To join professional diggers in excavating, identifying and preparing bones for further study? Then you'll enjoy the journeys of veteran adventure traveler Thom Tansey in Tracking the Dinosaurs. Dinosaurs have always intrigued Thom, who began going on digs after reading an article about dinosaurs in a national magazine. He has been on several professionally guided digs and has taken college courses in archeology, biology, geology, anthropology and paleontology. Tracking the Dinosaurs: Unraveling the Mystery documents Thom's travel adventure experiences as he seeks to learn more about dinosaurs. Join amateur paleontologist Thom Tansey as he digs at: * EGG MOUNTAIN, in Montana at the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains, where 80 million years ago a herd of 10,000 duck-billed dinosaurs -- which were known to have nested and nurtured their young -- perished en masse. * ZUNI BASIN, in western New Mexico, where the skeleton of a primitive ceratopsian was discovered, upsetting the conventional wisdom about horned-dinosaur evolution. * NAIL QUARRY, in eastern Wyoming, where plant-eating dinosaurs were preyed upon by their meat-eating counterparts 150 million years ago.* BURGESS SHALE, a World Heritage Site in British Columbia, Canada, where 530 million years ago a coastal mudslide trapped and forever preserved marine creatures that represented almost every major group of animals in existence.* RHINO BARN, in northeastern Nebraska, where dozens ofnow-extinct rhinos succumbed to volcanic ash clouds and whose articulated skeletons are exquisitely preserved.Travel with Thom as he treks to remote excavation sites; meticulously excavates bones; prepares bones for further study; and discusses with paleontologists the current theories about dinosaurs regarding migration, warmbloodedness, herding, mobility, reproduction, care of young, and commonly held theories of extinction.