Explores fossils from how and where they form to how scientists gather and preserve them. Includes a glossary, resources for further information, diagrams, and color photographs.
Content Note
Signs of past life -- Two kinds of fossils -- From fish to fossil -- Buried treasure -- Where fossils form -- Common body fossils -- Dinosaur fossils -- Molds and casts -- Traces of the past -- Trapped in tar and ice -- What is amber? -- Scientists at work -- Be a fossil hunter.