Download or read book Dinosaurs Funny and Weird Extinct Animals written by P. T. Hersom and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning new things can be fun and humorous, join bestselling children's book author P. T. Hersom as he uncovers funny dinosaur facts and sometimes weird dinosaur behavior, with stunning full color photos with descriptions of the extinct animals, what they ate, where they lived and their behavior. Dinosaurs may be prehistoric animals that have been extinct for millions of years, but that does not make them any less funny and weird. Almost like walking with the dinosaurs we will discover dinosaur fossils, eggs, tracks and even what dinosaur names mean. Exploring dinosaur bones from around the earth, we will see dinosaur pictures of the T Rex, Raptor and more. Like the dinosaur that was so tall, it could look into a window on the sixth floor!
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 Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dinosaurs to Dodos written by Don Lessem and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the names, physical characteristics, and places of origin of a variety of extinct animals, arranged chronologically into eras, periods, and epochs, and discusses times of mass extinction.
Download or read book All Yesterdays written by John Conway and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly illustrated with over sixty original artworks, All Yesterdays aims to challenge our notions of how prehistoric animals looked and behaved. As a criticalexploration of palaeontological art, All Yesterdays asks questions about what is probable, what is possible, and what iscommonly ignored.Written by palaeozoologist Darren Naish, and palaeontological artists John Conway and C.M. Kosemen, All Yesterdays isscientifically rigorous and artistically imaginative in its approach to fossils of the past - and those of the future.
Download or read book Prehistoric Punch Outs Dinosaurs Extinct Animals written by Wayne Kalama and published by Walter Foster Jr. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dinosaurs & Extinct Animals pairs the fun activity of building 3-D models with fun facts and trivia about each prehistoric animal.
Download or read book Extinct Monsters written by H. N. Hutchinson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extinct Monsters is a book by H. N. Hutchinson. Hutchinson was an author of numerous popular books on geology, palaeontology, evolution and anthropology. Excerpt: "Many of the stories told in early days, of Giants and Dragons, may have originated in the discovery of the limb-bones of the Mammoth, the Rhinoceros, or other large animals, in caves, associated with heaps of broken fragments, in which latter the ignorant peasant saw in fancy the remains of the victims devoured at the monster's repasts."
Download or read book Beyond the Dinosaurs written by Howard Zimmerman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the age after the dinosaurs where huge beasts, reptiles, and flying creatures terrorized the earth.
Download or read book Dinosaur with an Attitude written by Hanna Johansen and published by RDR Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life becomes very complicated for a boy named Zawinul when one of his Easter eggs hatches an inquisitive, far-from-extinct Compsognathus.
Download or read book The Last Dinosaur Book written by W. J. T. Mitchell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mitchell shows why we are so attached to the myth and the reality of the "terrible lizards.".
Download or read book The Magnificent Book of Dinosaurs written by Tom Jackson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel back in time to meet the most magnificent dinosaurs in close up. The Magnificent Book of Dinosaurs takes you back to prehistoric times to meet 36 incredible beasts. From the terrifying T. rex to the speedy Velociraptor, this book depicts some of the most incredible dinosaurs in stunning and accurate original illustrations. Intriguing facts accompany every illustration, so you can learn which is the largest land predator ever found, how the feathered Deinonychus kept its huge hooked claws sharp, and why Triceratops had a large bony frill. This is the perfect book for dinosaur-lovers everywhere. 36 DINOSAURS: Learn about dozens of dinosaurs from all over the world, from the stealthy Spinosaurus to the mighty Dreadnoughtus. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: Vibrant, detailed images bring these incredible beasts to back to life. FASCINATING FACTS: Includes hundreds of fascinating facts in an easy-to-read format that will excite dinosaur-lovers of all ages. MAP OF THE DINOSAUR WORLD: A full-page color map shows where each dinosaur originates. COLLECT THE SERIES: More beautifully illustrated collections for all ages include The Magnificent Book of Extinct Animals, The Magnificent Book of Cats, The Magnificent Book of Sharks, The Magnificent Book of Horses, and The Magnificent Book of Birds.
Download or read book The Last Dinosaur written by Jim Murphy and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.
Download or read book My Weird School Fast Facts Dinosaurs Dodos and Woolly Mammoths written by Dan Gutman and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think fast with A.J. and Andrea from My Weird School! Did you know that the biggest dinosaur was probably six stories high and half a football field long? Did you know that Utah is the only place in the world where it’s legal to hunt dinosaurs?! Learn more weird-but-true dinosaur facts with A.J. and Andrea from Dan Gutman’s bestselling My Weird School series. This all-new series of nonfiction books features hundreds of hysterical facts, plus lots of photos and illustrations. Whether you're a kid who wants to learn more about dinosaurs or simply someone who wants to know the name for fossilized dinosaur poop, this is the book for you! With more than 30 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading!
Download or read book Did Dinosaurs Wear Nikes written by Patricia Griffin Ress and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only about 25% of the life on earth has been identified and categorized. A whopping 75% is unknown or little-known and new species are being discovered almost on a daily basis. Patricia Griffin Ress-with the help of a world traveler and businessman-tell of some of the stranger animals lurking in our oceans and on our lands. Many of them are deadly, and some are surprising! Did you know that the Dodo bird may NOT be extinct after all? And that one animal near Greece resembles a dinosaur from the Jurassic era? In one case, a physics professor even found a dinosaur foot in what appears to have been a tennis shoe! You won't want to put this book down!
Download or read book Dunkleosteus written by Ben Garrod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nature makes top level science fun. Here are the superstars of the story of life, from the super-weird to the super-ferocious. Usually a species has 10 million years or so of evolving, eating, chasing, playing, maybe doing homework, or even going to the moon before it goes extinct. Dunkleosteus was super-snappy. With a bite 10 times stronger than a great white shark, it could snap its jaws 5 times faster than you can blink! Discover its habitat, what it ate and what it was like to live in the shadow of this one-tonne predator until it went extinct at the end of the Age of Fishes. 'This book is amazing and the illustrations are spectacular! I want to read the rest of the books in this series!' Toppsta Collect all eight books about animals we have lost in mass extinctions caused by asteroids or mega-volcanoes, clashing continents and climate change. Past brought to full-colour life by palaeoartist Gabriel Ugueto
Download or read book Weird Dinosaurs written by John Pickrell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A tour de force…highlights the odd reptiles that roamed all corners of the earth millions of years ago.”—Sydney Morning Herald From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier of discovery. He reveals the dwarf dinosaurs unearthed by an eccentric Transylvanian baron; an aquatic, crocodile-snouted carnivore bigger than T. rex that once lurked in North African waterways; a Chinese dinosaur with wings like a bat; and a Patagonian sauropod so enormous it weighed more than two commercial jet airliners. Other surprising discoveries hail from Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Burma, and South Africa. Why did dinosaurs grow so huge? How did they spread across the world? Did they all have feathers? What do sauropods have in common with 1950s vacuum cleaners? The stuff of adventure movies and scientific revolutions, Weird Dinosaurs examines the latest breakthroughs and new technologies that are radically transforming our understanding of the distant past. “This history of the discovery of some of the most outlandish creatures that ever lived, and the excitement of paleontological research, will be sure to both entertain and instruct.”—Spencer Lucas, author of Dinosaurs: The Textbook, Sixth Edition “Fascinating.... Readers learn of beautiful opalised dinosaur bones from Australia and a crested dinosaur found approximately 13,000 feet up Antarctica's Mt. Kirkpatrick, demonstrating that dinosaurs were widely distributed across the globe.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book That s No Dino written by Helaine Becker and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun introduction to prehistoric creatures that are not dinosaurs, and why! Everyone knows what a dinosaur is, right? Well, maybe not. Dinosaurs are actually just one type of extinct animal from prehistoric times. So, what sets them apart? Here, readers are introduced to ten prehistoric animals. Each one looks like a dinosaur. But it's missing at least one key characteristic of all true dinosaurs. Animal by animal, each of those characteristics is added to a growing list, until, by the end of the book, readers know just what makes a dinosaur a dinosaur! A dinosaur by any other name is... not a dinosaur, of course!
