TY - BOOK AU - Wilshaw, Rob AU - Williams, Sophie AU - Hanaor, Ziggy TI - Stones and Bones: Fossils and The Stories They Tell SN - 9781800660427 U1 - 560 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Cicada Books Ltd KW - Paleontology KW - Fossils KW - Evolution KW - Precambian and Paleozoic Eras KW - Mesozoic Era KW - Cenozoic Era KW - Geology KW - George Cuvier KW - William Smith KW - Charles Darwin KW - Mary Anning N1 - Where We Are in Place and Time How The World Works How We Organize Ourselves N2 - Over the past four billion years, life on our planet has evolved from microscopic single-celled organisms to the incredible array of flora and fauna today. In the course of this time, layer upon layer of life was buried in sediment, turning into a fossilised record of the planet's history. This highly-illustrated, large-format book looks at all the incredible things that scientists have learned from the fossil record, including the ways in which continents have drifted, merged and fragmented again; and the life forms that have evolved and the great extinction events that wiped them out ER -