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By Wil McCarthy

H ere listed are the sources used to write the "Labnotes" column "Creatures of Stone."

The Encyclopedia Britannica 2004 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD

Mayor, Adrienne: The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times, Princeton University Press, 2000

Dharmananda, Subhuti: Dragons Bones and Teeth

R&D Educational Center: How Do I Teach Creation vs. Evolution?


Wil McCarthy is a rocket guidance engineer, robot designer, nanotechnologist, science-fiction author and occasional aquanaut. He has contributed to three interplanetary spacecraft, five communication and weather satellites, a line of landmine-clearing robots and some other "really cool stuff" he can't tell us about. His short writings have graced the pages of Analog, Asimov's, Wired, Nature and other major publications, and his book-length works include the New York Times notable Bloom, Amazon "Best of Y2K" The Collapsium and most recently Lost in Transmission. His acclaimed nonfiction book, Hacking Matter, is now available in paperback.




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