Amber: The Natural Time Capsule
No. of pages 72
Published: 1998
Add this book to your 'I want to read' list!
By clicking here you can add this book to your favourites list. If it is in your School Library it will show up on your account page in colour and you'll be able to download it from there. If it isn't in your school library it will still show up but in grey - that will tell us that maybe it is a book we should add to your school library, and will also remind you to read it if you find it somewhere else!
This book is part of a book series called The Earth .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 72 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by The Natural History Museum .
Dr Andrew Ross is the Principal Curator of Palaeobiology of National Museums Scotland, based in Edinburgh. An avid collector of fossils from the age of five, Dr Ross has since become an expert on fossil insects. Prior to moving to Scotland he worked as a curator at the Natural History Museum in London for 15 years. He is the author of many scientific papers and the popular book Amber, the Natural Time Capsule.
This book has the following chapters: What is amber?; the properties of amber; fake amber; the uses of amber; where is amber found; Baltic amber; Dominican amber; what is a species?; amber inclusions; animal interaction; plant inclusions; the search for DNA; biogeography; arthropods; the insect fossil record; insects; incomplete metamorphosis; incomplete metamorphosis - bugs; complete metamorphosis; complete metamorphosis - flies; wasps, bees and ants; beetles.
This book is in the following series:
