Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State

by David B. Williams and Elizabeth A. Nesbitt

A guide to discovering the fascinating natural history beneath your feet

From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295752327
• ISBN13: 9780295752327
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A journey into the past

Very interesting book with wonderful pictures and diagrams. The book is written in a very reader friendly language that makes it easy to understand and digest the knowledge unlike other books of the like that will drown you with a bunch of very sophisticated scientific mumbo jumbo. Well organized and put together. The authors did a great job writing it in a way that makes it quite entertaining and not just another dull history book. This book takes you on a journey into the past and explore different creatures big and small that once lived and roamed Washington State and what this state was like throughout geological history. Telling these interesting and incredible stories and more from the fossils these beasts and other life had left behind for us to come across and uncover. A fascinating read I highly recommend.