Mark Renz

ISBN: 978-0-9719-4772-4
Order Number: GOV276
Price: $24.95

An avocational paleontologist stumbles onto a half-million year-old Florida river bed and discovers dozens of skeletons---lumbering mammoth and mastodon elephants, bull-size ground sloths, humpless camels, old-world horses, piglike peccaries, dire wolves and deer. The discovery triggers many questions: Was it a major storm, flood, drought or plague that killed so many creatures at once,or do their bones represent one animal dying every ten years for a thousand years? What signs do scientists look for to determine cause and time of death? What are the ethical considerations for amateur fossil hunters who come across such a site? How do you determine whom to contact and how to excavate if given permission? Field photos give readers a rare glimpse at the final moment in the lives of these animals.

8.5" x 11", 175 pages, paperback, b/w photos..