Cave Detectives: Unraveling the Mystery of an Ice Age Cave - Hardcover

David L. Harrison

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811850064 ISBN 13: 9780811850063

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2007

Synopsis

What was life like millions of years ago? The answer lies deep underground, in a place once home to a ferocious predator much larger than most animals walking around today. Through photographs and detailed illustrations, readers will learn how the secrets buried in a midwestern hillside helped scientists understand early life on Earth. This book's simple but informative format allows readers to follow along as paleontologist Matt Forir and his team of experts unravel a prehistoric mystery.

About this title

About the Author:

David L. Harrison holds a bachelor's degree in zoology, and a master's degree in parasitology, the study of parasites. He even has a 300 year old fossil named after him. This is his third book on the subject of caves, his lifelong love. He lives in Missouri.

From Booklist:

The story opens "before humans arrived in North America," with a short-faced bear surprising a band of peccaries inside a cave, catching one, and biting off its foot. Some 55,000 years later, in 2001, a Missouri road crew uses explosives to blow off a hillside and discovers the Riverbluff Cave. Scientists summoned to the site discover traces of many prehistoric species, including the claw marks of a short-faced bear 14 feet off the ground. Harrison's vivid descriptions of the animals, the cave, and the scientists are complemented by the original art and photos that work together unusually well. Watercolor-and-pencil illustrations dramatize scenes of animals in the remote past as well as the story of the cave's discovery and exploration, while photos document findings such as the peccary's severed foot and the claw marks of enormous prehistoric bears. This concludes with a time line and a glossary. Carolyn Phelan
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About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0811850064
• ISBN 13: 9780811850063
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48
• Illustrator: Ashley Mims