The following booklist represents a portion of the books available in the Northglenn High School library. For additional books on this topic or related topics, please visit the library or use Destiny to search the collection.

When the Earth was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

561 BLA

Fossils allow us to touch the lost worlds from billions of years of evolutionary backstory, and it is impossible to understand our history—or our future—without them. When the Earth was Green takes readers back in time to prehistoric seas, swamps, forests, and savannas where critical moments in plant evolution unfolded. Each chapter stars plants and animals alike, underscoring how the interactions between species have helped shape the world we call home. As the chapters move upwards in time, the author guides readers along the burgeoning trunk of the Tree of Life, stopping to appreciate branches of an evolutionary story that links the world we know with one we can only just perceive now through the silent stone, from ancient roots to the present.

The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age

567.9 SCH

Dinosaurs. No other class of animals captures the hearts of both children and adults alike. Paleontologist Armin Schmitt brings us a firsthand account of the latest research on dinosaurs and their lives millions of years ago, including his spectacular global excavations and fascinating discoveries in the field. With the help of cutting-edge technology and unbelievable new finds, the age-old tale of the dinosaurs is now revitalized for the very first time, complete with astonishing illustrations that help us imagine dinosaurs like never before.

The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T.Rex and How it Shook Our World

567.9129 RAN

In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York's struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield Osborn, a privileged socialite whose reputation rests on the museum's success, and intrepid Kansas-born fossil hunter Barnum Brown. The Monster's Bones journeys from prehistory to present day, from remote Patagonia to the unforgiving badlands of the American West to the penthouses of Manhattan. With a wide-ranging cast of robber barons, eugenicists, and opportunistic cowboys, the author reveals how a monster of a bygone era ignited a new understanding of our planet and our place within it.

Tooth & Claw: The Dinosaur Wars

560 NOY

Tooth & Claw tells the story of the feverish race between two brilliant, driven, and insanely competitive scientists—Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh—to uncover more and more monstrous fossils in the newly opened Wild West. Between them, they discovered dozens of major dinosaur species and established the new discipline of paleontology in America. But their bitter thirty-year rivalry—a 'war' waged on wild plains and mountains, in tabloid newsprint, and in Congress—dramatically wrecked their professional and private lives even as it brought alive for the public a vanished prehistoric world.

Big Meg: The Story of the Largest and Most Mysterious Predator that Ever Lived

597.3 FLA

Scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, Emma, explore his personal history with, study of, and connection to megalodon sharks. Relaying personal stories and scientific information, they discuss the evolution of sharks, the Miocene era when they lived, the mystery of their extinction, their portrayal in movies, and human fascination with them.

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of the World

576.8 BLA

An asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than half of known species vanished seemingly overnight. But this worst single day in the history of life on Earth was as critical for us as it was for the dinosaurs, as it allowed for evolutionary opportunities that were closed for the previous 100 million years. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe.

Walking with Prehistoric Beasts

567.9 HAI

Walking with Prehistoric Beasts is a fascinating visual odyssey of the prehistoric era. Computer graphics and simulated nature photos are sure to make a lasting impression on kids and adults who love learning about the time before man. Illustrations.

Walking with Dinosaurs: A Natural History

567.9 HAI

Describes the earth's environment when dinosaurs flourished, the characteristics and habits of various species, and how changes in climate, landmasses, and vegetation led to the extinction of these massive reptiles.