Paleontologists and their pets. Nelikhov A.

From ancient times, people found fossilized bones and sinks of strange, incomprehensible creatures in the ground and on the coast. For thousands of years, scientists did not understand who these fossils belong and tried to explain their nature in a variety of ways: the existence of giants and monsters, witchcraft and the worldwide flood. Brilliant and courage were needed to change centuries -old prejudices. These qualities were possessed by a French scientist of the beginning of the 19th century, Georges Cuvier, who is rightfully called the father of paleontology. He discovered entire worlds that existed before a person and were inhabited by completely different plants and animals with amazing mammals, and gigantic reptiles and giant fish and insects, from which only petrified remains have been preserved. Following Cuvier, the paleontologists of everyone went in search of more and more fossils, began to reconstruct the appearance, habits and habitats of ancient animals. This book tells about these amazing discoveries and bold reconstructions about their amazing discoveries and bold reconstructions. In it, you will meet not only the ingenious Cuvier and his mastodont, but also with the brave Mary Enning and her pleusiasur, the famous Charles Darwin and his toxodon, the eccentric William Bakland and his megalosaurus, the adventurer Roem Andrewsarch, the writer and paleontologist Ivan Efremov And his titanophone and many others.