Bone is one of the most extraordinary materials in the natural world
- flexible & strong, available in a number of types & densities. Yet we only absorb quite how amazing it is when we look at the range of different jobs it can do, from supporting & shaping a huge & heavy mammal like an elephant to enabling a bat to fly. & looking into the distant past, scientists know what they know about the dinosaurs & their descendents from their fossilized bones, extraordinary reminders of how different our world used to be. Skeletons takes the virtuoso engravings of the nineteenth & early twentieth centuries & marries them with a contemporary & readable text that brings them right up to date, creating an appealing mix of scientific eye candy & cutting-edge scholarship.