LIBROS DEL AUTOR: henry p elmer

6 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: henry p elmer

  • MEGALODON (Otodus megalodon)
    Henry P. Elmer
    No predator in the fossil record captures the imagination quite like Otodus megalodon. Estimated to have reached lengths of up to sixty feet, with a bite force strong enough to crush the skeleton of a whale, megalodon dominated the world’s oceans for more than fifteen million years, from the early Miocene until its extinction roughly three and a half million years ago. And yet ...
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    34,16 €

  • DODO Raphus cucullatus
    Henry P. Elmer
    Few creatures have shaped the human imagination as thoroughly as the dodo, and few are as poorly understood. Raphus cucullatus lived only on the island of Mauritius, evolving over millions of years without natural predators until it lost the need, and eventually the ability, to fly. Then, within less than a century of first contact with European sailors in the 1600s, it was gon...
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    31,63 €

  • HAGERMAN HORSE (Equus simplicidens)
    Henry P. Elmer
    In 1928, a rancher near Hagerman, Idaho, stumbled onto a fossil deposit that would eventually yield more than two hundred skeletons of a single extinct species, the largest concentration of fossil horses ever found in one place. That animal, Equus simplicidens, is now recognized as one of the earliest true representatives of the genus Equus, and its remains have become central ...
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    38,27 €

  • MEGALODON (Otodus megalodon)
    Henry P. Elmer
    No predator in the fossil record captures the imagination quite like Otodus megalodon. Estimated to have reached lengths of up to sixty feet, with a bite force strong enough to crush the skeleton of a whale, megalodon dominated the world’s oceans for more than fifteen million years, from the early Miocene until its extinction roughly three and a half million years ago. And yet ...
    Disponible

    47,22 €

  • DODO (Raphus cucullatus)
    Henry P. Elmer
    Few creatures have shaped the human imagination as thoroughly as the dodo, and few are as poorly understood. Raphus cucullatus lived only on the island of Mauritius, evolving over millions of years without natural predators until it lost the need, and eventually the ability, to fly. Then, within less than a century of first contact with European sailors in the 1600s, it was gon...
    Disponible

    30,33 €

  • HAGERMAN HORSE (Equus simplicidens)
    Henry P. Elmer
    In 1928, a rancher near Hagerman, Idaho, stumbled onto a fossil deposit that would eventually yield more than two hundred skeletons of a single extinct species, the largest concentration of fossil horses ever found in one place. That animal, Equus simplicidens, is now recognized as one of the earliest true representatives of the genus Equus, and its remains have become central ...
    Disponible

    25,21 €