The Search For Antarctic Dinosaurs

Describes William Hammer's discovery of the first dinosaur remains found in Antarctica.

Describes William Hammer's discovery of the first dinosaur remains--190-million-year-old fossils--found atop a mountain in Antarctica. Reprint.

‘Dinosaurs in Antarctica? You must have rocks (or ice) in your head,’ thought Josh. When Josh gets an opportunity to go to Antarctica with his dad he finds out how wrong he was. Working with a research team attempting to recover recently found dinosaur bones they find out how difficult the condition can be, but with the help of a Russian helicopter pilot they manage what seems to be the impossible only to get trapped in the ice. Will they be successful?

THE TIME TRAVELING DINO DETECTIVES OF ANTARCTICA ARE GO!What happens when two kids need to do a presentation on unusual dinosaurs and get sucked into a vortex that sends them to the coldest, windiest, most extreme place on earth?Antarctica! Adventure! Dinosaurs! That's what.Time travel back 270 million years ago in search of the lost forests of Pangaea, the first dinosaurs of Gondwana and origins of the polar desert known as Antarctica! With a talking penguin and seal in tow, these two kids are in for the time of their lives. They may even meet an Elvis-singing dinosaur if they're lucky!WHO'S IN?Written by G. Neri and illustrated by Corban Wilkin,the team behind the acclaimed graphic novel, Grand Theft Horse.

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Dinosaurs of Darkness opens a doorway to a fascinating former world, between 100 million and 120 million years ago, when Australia was far south of its present location and joined to Antarctica. Dinosaurs lived in this polar region. How were the polar dinosaurs discovered? What do we now know about them? Thomas H. Rich and Patricia Vickers-Rich, who have played crucial roles in their discovery, describe how they and others collected the fossils indispensable to our knowledge of this realm and how painstaking laboratory work and analyses continue to unlock the secrets of the polar dinosaurs. This scientific adventure makes for a fascinating story: it begins with one destination in mind and ends at another, arrived at by a most roundabout route, down byways and back from dead ends. Dinosaurs of Darkness is a personal, absorbing account of the way scientific research is actually conducted and how hard and rewarding it is to mine the knowledge of this remarkable life of the past. The award-winning first edition has been thoroughly updated with the latest discoveries and interpretations, along with over 100 new photographs and charts, many in color.

Presents a calendar year in the life of various dinosaur species during the Jurassic period, showing the hatching of dinosaur eggs, attacks by predators, a forest fire, floods during the rain season, mating, and a move to new feeding grounds.