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The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world.

This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you to pick out a fossil''s chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a colour illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal.

The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for

Fossils

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    A Paperback / softback by DK, David Ward

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      Publisher Dorling Kindersley Ltd
      Published 7 October 2021
      ISBN-13 9780241471432
      978-0241471432
      ISBN-10 0241471435
      Also in:
      Natural History Dinosaurs and the prehistoric world: general interest

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The clearest and sharpest recognition guide to over 500 invertebrate, vertebrate, and plant fossils from around the world.

      This comprehensive pocket guide is the perfect introduction to finding, identifying, and collecting fossils. It features more than 500 species of plant and animal fossils, from trilobites and megafauna to dinosaurs and ancient trees. This handbook cuts through the complicated identification process with expertly written and thoroughly vetted text that features precise description, enabling you to recognize a species instantly. Over 1,000 photographs, with illuminating annotations, help you to pick out a fossil''s chief characteristics and distinguishing features, while a colour illustration shows the fossil as a living plant or animal.

      The detailed introduction explains what a fossil is and how they are classified. Start building your own collection with advice on where to look for fossils, what tools and safety equipment are needed for

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