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For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jill HuntingPublish date:2022-02-24Pages:260
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806176611ISBN-10:080617661XUPC:9780806176611Book Category:Nature, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Fossils, Expeditions & Discoveries, Environmentalists & NaturalistsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCVNAVX3A2

For Want of Wings: A Bird with Teeth and a Dinosaur in the Family

In 1872, a young graduate of Yale University named Thomas Russell unearthed the bones of an 83,000,000-year-old dinosaur in western Kansas. The rare fossil, an avian dinosaur with teeth and flightless wings, proved that birds evolved from reptiles. More than a century later, Russell's great-granddaughter set out to retrace her ancestor's forgotten expedition. Part detective history, part memoir,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806176611ISBN-10:080617661XUPC:9780806176611Book Category:Nature, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Fossils, Expeditions & Discoveries, Environmentalists & NaturalistsSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.84Product ID:SCVNAVX3A2
Hunting, Jill: - A former food and wine writer and editor, Jill Hunting is the author of Finding Pete: Rediscovering the Brother I Lost in Vietnam. She lives in Pasadena, California.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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