Michael Novacek: 3 books
Time Traveler
In Search of Dinosaurs and Other Fossils from Montana to Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2003
Hunting for fossils with a preeminent guide and teacher
Michael Novacek, a world-renowned paleontologist who has discovered important fossils on virtually every continent, is an authority on patterns of evolution and on the relationships among extinct and extant organisms. Time Traveler is...
by Michael Novacek
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Over the past six years Michael Novacek, the Provost of Science at the American Museum of Natural History, has led a team of international scientists to the Gobi Desert on the greatest dinosaur expedition of the late 20th century.
Closed to the West since the 1920's, the remote sands of Mongolia's...
Terra
Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
A paleontologist awakens us to the "extinction event" that human activity is bringing about today
The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs....