Download or read book Amazing Armored Animals written by Sandie Sowler and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a variety of armored animals and describes how they defend themselves with built-in spines, spikes, scales, shells, and other types of outer coverings.

Download or read book Animals with Awesome Armor written by Susan K. Mitchell and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how animals such as armadillos and crabs protect themselves from predators.

Download or read book Amazing Armoured Animals written by Sandy Sowler and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a variety of armored animals and describes how they defend themselves with built-in spines, spikes, scales, shells, and other types of outer coverings.

Download or read book Armor Animals written by Liz Yohlin Baill and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do knights in shining armor have to do with slimy snails and porcupines? A lot, actually! Armor & Animals brings together two things kids love to provide an entryway into the world of art. The armor collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, beloved by its young visitors, provides the remarkable helmets, shields, and more that appear in the book, and which experienced museum educator Liz Yohlin Baill compares to the shells, scales, and spikes that protect animals. Lively text paired with bright, modern graphics and real-life armor informs kids about art and animals in tandem. A rhino crashes into a knight, teaching kids that a group of rhinos is called a crash—so stay out of the way! Dragons may be imaginary, but a fire-breathing dragon etched on armor can still make a horse look extra tough. Kids can consider the helmets, goggles, and other "armor" they use that help make their own activities safer, and connect art to their world as they learn.

Download or read book Nine Banded Armadillos written by Megan Borgert-Spaniol and published by Blastoff! Readers. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to nine-banded armadillos. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--

Download or read book Armored Armadillo to Zippy Zebra written by Carol Robinson Baker and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a unique and whimsical safari adventure through the alphabet. This fun and interactive approach, using creative alliteration, new animal-inspired vocabulary, and detailed illustrations, entertains and educates young children and early readers about real animals A-Z. Readers gain insight into the characteristics, habitats, diets, behavior, and families of both familiar and exotic animals. Play detective with the bonus "I Spy" feature in each illustration and look for objects that begin with the same letter. How many can you find? Complete with Glossary and Education Applications, this humorous adventure captivates audiences in the home, classroom, and library.

Download or read book Amazing Armored Animals written by Sandie Sowler and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how diverse species of animals protect themselves by using antlers, horns, tusks, scales, spines, bony plates, shells, and other forms of built-in armor.

Download or read book Megafauna written by Richard A. Fariña and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An enjoyable read that provides a substantial amount of detail on the biology, ecology, and distribution of these fantastic animals . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the beginning of the modern era and the arrival of humans. It places these giants within the context of the other mammals then alive, describing their paleobiology—how they walked; how much they weighed; their diets, behavior, biomechanics; and the interactions among them and with their environment. It also tells the stories of the scientists who contributed to our discovery and knowledge of these transcendent creatures and the environment they inhabited. The episode known as the Great American Biotic Interchange, perhaps the most important of all natural history “experiments,” is also an important theme of the book, tracing the biotic events of both North and South America that led to the fauna and the ecosystems discussed in this book. “Collectively, this book brings attention to the discovery and natural history of ancient beasts in South America while providing a broader temporal and geographic background that allows readers to understand their evolution and potential immigration to South America.” —Quarterly Review of Biology “An excellent volume . . . This book is likely to facilitate progress in the understanding of fossil mammals from the Americas.” —Priscum

Download or read book Lost Animals written by John Whitfield and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the incredible animals that have disappeared due to competition, mass extinctions, hunting, and human activity. Lost Animals brings back to life some of the most charismatic creatures to inhabit the planet. It captures the imagination with more than 200 incredible photographs, artworks of fossils, and scientific drawings of charming creatures like dodos, paraceratherium (the largest land mammal), spinosaurus (the biggest carnivorous dinosaur), placeoderm fishes (the sharks of their day), and more! Lost Animals is a captivating documentation of evolution and extinction. Each chapter focuses on a specific time in Earth's history, from the Cambrian explosion (the most intense surge of evolution the world has ever experienced) to present times, with profiles of the key species that lived then. From long extinct animals to Lazarus species--animals that were thought to be extinct before being rediscovered--this book takes readers on a journey through Earth's natural history, highlighting the world's biggest animal losses and its moments of conservational hope.

Download or read book Armored Animals written by Andrew Brown and published by New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * peculiar physical and behavioral characteristics of animals around the world* large-size, realistic illustrations of each animal* simple text explains defense mechanisms, hunting techniques, how they raise their young, and why some can live underwaterAnimals include:* Armadillo* Pangolin* Rhinoceros* Turtle* Crocodile* Porcupine* Hedgehog* Goat Antelope* Deer* and more

Download or read book Cute as an Axolotl written by Jess Keating and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cats of Instagram" meets National Geographic in this hilarious picture book about nature's cutest weirdos from the author of Pink Is for Blobfish! The Internet pretty much runs on cute animal photos, but "cute" is so much more than clickbait kittens and insta-pups. Cute is for feathery-gilled axolotls (pronounced: ax-uh-LOT-ulz), shy pygmy hippos, poisonous blue dragons, and armored pangolins. All of these animals are cute, but they've also adapted remarkable ways to survive in their unique environments. With her signature blend of humor and zoological know-how, Pink Is for Blobfish author Jess Keating shows how cute animals can be more than just a pretty face in this latest installment of the World of Weird Animals.

Download or read book A New World of Animals written by Miguel de Asúa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows how the initial wonder at the new beasts gave way to a more utilitarian approach, assessing their economic and medical potential. It elucidates how shifts in European perceptions brought the animals from the realm of the fantastic into the mainstream of early modern natural history, while at the same time changing the way in which Europeans saw their own world. Indeed, the chronicles and treatises of those who in the wake of the discovery arrived in the new lands tell as much about the particular interests and mental worlds of the writers as about the 'new animals'. This book traces the amazement of the first explorers and colonizers, the chronicles of soldiers and Indians, the 'natural histories of the New World', the place of animals in the network of economic interests driving the early expansion of Europe, the views of the missionaries and those of natural philosophers and physicians. Taking the reader from the Brazilian forests to the erudite cabinets of the Old World, from Patagonia to the centres of empire, the story of the discovery of the unexpected menagerie of the New World is also an exploration of Early Modern European imagination and learning.

Download or read book Animalia 11th Hour written by Graeme Base and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1994-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Animalia, a journey through the alphabet features such characters as "Lazy lions lounging in the local library," while in Eleventh Hour, Elephant's birthday party is marked by a stolen feast and cryptic clues to the culprit's identity.

Download or read book Animals Up Close written by Igor Siwanowicz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-01-30 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoom in on the world’s most incredible creatures If your child could be pint-sized like a pipistrelle bat, or see eye-to-eye with a housefly they’d encounter a miniature world of strange body shapes, weird and wonderful behaviour, and some jaw-dropping insights into life for the very small. Thanks to nature photographer Igor Siwanowicz’s incredible photographs, they can do just that. With these astonishing images, they’ll see in eye-popping close up detail how tiny creatures hunt, feed, move, survive and thrive. There are familiar creatures like flies and beetles to look at, along with exotic birds, reptiles, amphibians and rodents. Discover what makes them different and how they cope with living in highly varied habitats. With Igor’s behind the scenes guide on how to photograph such tiny beasts, this is an awesome view of nature in miniature.

Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.

Download or read book The Evolution Underground written by Anthony J Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on Earth. Many animal lineages alive now—including our own—only survived a cataclysmic meteorite strike 65 million years ago because they went underground.On a grander scale, the chemistry of the planet itself had already been transformed many millions of years earlier by the first animal burrows which altered whole ecosystems. Every day we walk on an earth filled with an underground wilderness teeming with life. Most of this life stays hidden, yet these animals and their subterranean homes are ubiquitous, ranging from the deep sea to mountains, from the equator to the poles. Burrows are a refuge from predators, a safe home for raising young, or a tool to ambush prey. Burrows also protect animals against all types of natural disasters. Filled with spectacularly diverse fauna, acclaimed paleontologist and ichnologist Anthony Martin reveals this fascinating, hidden world that will continue to influence and transform life on this planet.

Download or read book Armored Dinosaurs written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An introduction to armored and duckbilled dinosaurs, plant-eating dinosaurs that belong to the group called ornithischians, one of the two major groups of dinosaurs. Features include an original drawing of each dinosaur, fun facts, a glossary, and a list of additional resources"--