The doomsday detectives : how Walter and Luis Alvarez solved the mystery of dinosaur extinction
2025
Book
"Father-son scientists Luis and Walter Alvarez piece together one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What really happened to the dinosaurs? Dive into this fun and informative middle grade nonAfiction book, which outlines the many important scientific discoveries that aided the Alvarezes in their search for answers"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
- 9781643791098
- 1643791095
Edition: First edition.
Description: 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Target Audience Note: Ages 10-13. Tu Books, An imprint of Lee and Low Books, Incorporated.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
- A guide to scientific practices
- A day like any other
- Earth's greatest mystery
- Figuring out how Earth changes over time
- The question of a lifetime
- It's about time : How history is written in the rocks
- A is for answers
- It came from outer space
- High-impact evidence
- Big wave hunters
- Closing in on a killer : the search for the crater
- Doomsday : the last day of the Cretaceous
- A never ending story.
LCCN: 2024045771
Control Number: 3376597
Publisher: New York, NY : Tu Books, an imprint of Lee and Low Books Incorporated, [2025]Subjects:
- Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988 -- Juvenile literature.
- Alvarez, Walter, 1940- -- Juvenile literature.
- Dinosaurs -- Extinction -- Juvenile literature.
- Earth (Planet) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
- Mass extinctions -- Juvenile literature.
- Paleontology -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Other Authors: Lorenz, Theo Nicole, 1985- illustrator.