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Author: Mark Renz Illustrator: Marisa Renz Publisher: PaleoPress Release date: May 1, 2005 Price: $24.95 plus 3.75 shipping/handling, and 6% sales tax for Florida residents. Send check to PaleoPress, 213 Lincoln Ave., Lehigh Acres, FL 33972, or call 239-368-3252 for credit card phone order. Inquire by e-mail "fossilx@earthlink.net" for overseas orders. FOR MORE PHOTOS AND INFO, CLICK HERE

Avocational paleontologist Mark Renz stumbles onto a 500,000 year-old ancient Florida river bed and discovers dozens of skeletons of lumbering mammoth and mastodon elephants, bull-size ground sloths, llamas, old-world horses, pig-like peccaries, primitive wolves and deer. The discovery triggers many questions. Was it a major storm, flood, drought or plague that killed so many creatures at once? Or do their bones represent one animal dying every ten years for thousands of years? What signs do scientists look for to determine cause and time of death? What are the ethical considerations for amateur fossil hunters who come across such a site? How do you determine who to contact and how to excavate if given permission? Nearly 800 field photos offer tantalizing clues about how these animals lived and died.

From the Foreword: "All of the dedication and hard work by Renz and his crew, so richly displayed in these pages, has paid off bountifully in fossils from an interval of geologic time that was previously poorly known in Florida. Thanks to them, we now know much more than we did before about the animals that lived in Southwest Florida approximately 500,000 years ago." -- Dr. Richard C. Hulbert, Jr., Vertebrate Paleontology Collections Manager, Florida Museum of Natural History

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Author: Mark Renz Illustrators: Cover: Steve Bufter, Inside: Marisa Renz Publisher: PaleoPress Signed copies available Price: 14.95 plus 3.75 shipping (U.S. only) and 6 percent sales tax (.90) for Florida residents. Overseas orders, please e-mail us for shipping price. Send check or money order to PaleoPress, 213 Lincoln Avenue, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972. Or for credit card orders, call 239-368-3252.

WHO IS DOUG? An inquisitive dung beetle who meets weekly at the watering hole with Millie the mammoth, Cedric the camel, Herb the horse and Shutzal the sloth. Together, the five youngsters argue about such topics as thinking, happiness, specie-ism, religion, ethics, evolution, kindness, death, education, love, hunting, sports and the art of rolling the perfect dung ball. They may not provide us with all of life’s answers, but they sure pose a lot of intriguing questions.

FROM THE FOREWORDS:

A fascinating novel…inspired by a pile of dirt! - Dick Mol, Expedition Paleontologist, Discovery Channel‘s “Raising the Mammoth”

A clever version of the story of life…Seeing our modern-day world through the eyes and thoughts of these creatures living in a bygone era shows us our own present-day foibles in a less threatening context. Doug‘s world is our world. - David A. Zacharias, The Whitney Lab, University of Florida College of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience

I go on record to predict that Doug's Ark will be a least seller until discovered by religious fundamentalists and banned from school libraries. At that point, Renz's little iconoclast primer for young free thinkers will sell like Mad magazine to much the same crowd. - Ron Wiggins - Palm Beach Post

Doug surveys a world evolving, a place of terrible beauty and unending excitement . Recognize it? Aesop never told a more illuminating fable than Mark Renz spins here. -- Edward Morris, friend

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Author: Mark Renz Illustrators: Walter Hunt, Dan Varner, Todd Marshall, Rob Sula, Marisa Renz, Kyle Kirby Publisher: PaleoPress Signed copies available. 170 pages. Includes close to 400 images, both color and black & white. Price: 29.95 plus 3.75 shipping (U.S. only) and 6 percent sales tax (1.50) for Florida residents. Overseas orders, please e-mail us for shipping price. Send check or money order to PaleoPress, 213 Lincoln Avenue, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972. Or for credit card orders, call 239-368-3252.

How does a shark grow 40 to 60 feet in length? Why would it need to? What sharks were its ancestors? What could possibly bring about its extinction? Or is this beast still out there somewhere in the vastness of our deepest seas, feeding on whales and giant squids, but leaving no trace of its activities?

* 48 international sites where you can search for Meg teeth
* The controversial rise and fall of Meg
* Color Identification section for Meg and her ancestors
* Terror index: Was Meg the baddest of the bad?
* Rumored Meg sightings
* 390 illustrations and photos

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Author: Mark Renz Illustrator: Marisa Renz Publisher: University Press of Florida Signed copies available through PaleoPress. Price: 19.95 plus 3.75 shipping (U.S. only) and 6 percent sales tax (.90) for Florida residents. Overseas orders, please e-mail us for shipping price. Send check or money order to PaleoPress, 213 Lincoln Avenue, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972. Or for credit card orders, call 239-368-3252.

* Over 250 photos of author's Florida fossil finds, including sharks, whales, dolphins, mammoths, mastodons, sloths, camels, alligators, and horses.
* Shows where to look, how and when to look, and how to preserve your finds.
* Informative, humorous, written in layperson's words
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Title: A Thousand Miles of Diving Access Points...
Fossil Diving in Florida's Waters

Author: Robert W. Sinibaldi Publisher: Ibis Graphics Available through PaleoPress Price: 11.95 plus 3.75 shipping (U.S. only) and 6 percent sales tax (.72) for Florida residents. Overseas orders, please e-mail us for shipping price. Send check or money order to PaleoPress, 213 Lincoln Avenue, Lehigh Acres, FL 33972. Or for credit card orders, call 239-368-3252.

By Robert Sinibaldi.
This is a detailist's handbook of river diving, snorkeling or screenwashing for fossils.
It's a "how-to, where-to, when-to" guide, complete with photos for specimen identification.
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