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Authors: John Wilson
Tags: Historical, Juvenile Fiction, Animals, Mysteries & Detective Stories, JUV028000, Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Prehistory, JUV002060, JUV016090
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thereâs nothing written on it. Annabel unwraps it. Nestled in tissue paper is a beautiful coiled fossil shell, its polished surface gleaming in the firelight.
âThatâs a lovely ammonite,â Dr. Bob says. âJurassic in age, I would guess. Whoâs it from?â
Annabel lifts a gold-edged embossed card from the box. â For my two young friends. Thank you for the entertainment and the scratches behind the ear. All the best, Percy .â
âItâs from Battleford,â I say. âHeâs taunting us.â
âI think he enjoys almost getting caught,â Annabel comments, turning the fossil over in her hands. âLife must get boring when youâre rich enough to have anything you want. I wonder if weâve seen the last of him.â
Authorâs Note
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, has one of the best collections of fossils in the world, and it is possible to look into a T. rex âs jaws. It is also possible to climb inside the worldâs biggest T. rex and look down on the rest of the town. The badlands also exist, and at places like Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, Alberta, it is sometimes difficult to walk around without stepping on a dinosaur bone washed down from the surrounding slopes.
I in no way mean to suggest that the fossils you can find in any rock shop are stolen. The vast majority are collected perfectly legally from sites that have been well researched by scientists and prepared by people who love making these incredible remnants of the past visible and available for people to see and own. Unfortunately, however, there is also a thriving underground business in rare and exotic fossils, and some wonderful specimens only exist in the basements and houses of people like Humphrey Battleford.
The characters in Bones are fictional, as are some of the locations, such as the back rooms of the Tyrrell Museum and the coulee on Samâs momâs farm. But who knows? Maybe one day a storm will wash out the strange bones of a smart dinosaur from the walls of a coulee somewhere.
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âThatâs a lovely ammonite,â Dr. Bob says. âJurassic in age, I would guess. Whoâs it from?â
Annabel lifts a gold-edged embossed card from the box. â For my two young friends. Thank you for the entertainment and the scratches behind the ear. All the best, Percy .â
âItâs from Battleford,â I say. âHeâs taunting us.â
âI think he enjoys almost getting caught,â Annabel comments, turning the fossil over in her hands. âLife must get boring when youâre rich enough to have anything you want. I wonder if weâve seen the last of him.â
Authorâs Note
The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, has one of the best collections of fossils in the world, and it is possible to look into a T. rex âs jaws. It is also possible to climb inside the worldâs biggest T. rex and look down on the rest of the town. The badlands also exist, and at places like Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks, Alberta, it is sometimes difficult to walk around without stepping on a dinosaur bone washed down from the surrounding slopes.
I in no way mean to suggest that the fossils you can find in any rock shop are stolen. The vast majority are collected perfectly legally from sites that have been well researched by scientists and prepared by people who love making these incredible remnants of the past visible and available for people to see and own. Unfortunately, however, there is also a thriving underground business in rare and exotic fossils, and some wonderful specimens only exist in the basements and houses of people like Humphrey Battleford.
The characters in Bones are fictional, as are some of the locations, such as the back rooms of the Tyrrell Museum and the coulee on Samâs momâs farm. But who knows? Maybe one day a storm will wash out the strange bones of a smart dinosaur from the walls of a coulee somewhere.
O RCA CURRENTS
For more information on all the books
in the Orca Currents series, please visit
www.orcabook.com .
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