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1) Vertebrates
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Most readers are familiar with small lizards they see at the zoo and the fluffy pet mammals they may keep, from dogs to bunnies. But in prehistoric times, some reptiles and mammals were enormous, terrifying creatures! In this volume, readers can discover reptiles, mammals, sea creatures, and birds of the prehistoric era they may have never heard of. Fascinating details accompany illustrations of what each creature was likely to look like, and what...
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Ornithopods, or bird-like dinosaurs, were herbivores that thrived mostly in North America during the Cretaceous period, between 145 million and 65 million years ago. This title explores many different ornithopods and why they had unusual features such as crested heads or duck bills. From fossil evidence, paleontologists have determined more and more about how these dinosaurs ate,moved, communicated, and cared for their young. Fascinating subjects...
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Stegosaurs, or armored dinosaurs, are a genus of dinosaurs from the late Jurassic period known for their spiked tails and the triangular plates on their backs. In this title, various species of stegosaurs are highlighted, including important fossil discoveries and how they have helped scientists learn more about how stegosaurs lived.
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Sauropods, or long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs, were the largest land animals that ever lived, with the biggest species discovered so, Patagotitan mayorum, weighing as much as twelve African elephants! But why did they grow so big, and what was the purpose of their long necks? In this title, readers will learn about all different kinds of sauropods, their features, what they ate, their nesting sites, the herds they lived in, and more. Palenontologists...
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While triceratops is one of the most recognizable dinosaurs, it is far from the only one with distinctive features on and around its head. This colorful, informative volume discusses the marginocephalians, dinosaurs with fringed heads. Readers will learn about how these dinosaurs frills and thick or domed heads helped them identify one another, eat, and survive. Timelines and classifications help readers distinguish between various species and provide...
8) Dinosaurs
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Go back in time to the 'Age of the Dinosaurs' and unearth some incredible, terrifying and fascinating beasts. This book will make you feel like you really are walking with the dinosaurs. The highly detailed illustrations have been carefully researched to give as accurate a picture as possible of what scientists think these now extinct animals looked like. Dino-mad kids will love to pour over the pictures, spotting details and immersing themselves...
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Two-legged carnivorous dinosaurs, known as theropods, are one of the most recognizable dinosaur types. Going beyond Tyrannosaurus Rex, this title showcases many theropods, including feathered dinosaurs (dromaeosaurs) that, once discovered, provided one of the missing links between dinosaurs and birds. Although scientists have not found many theropod fossils, they have still discovered a great deal about how these dinosaurs hunted, where they laid...
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Hundreds of millions of years before humans had evolved, our planet was already teeming with life. In prehistoric oceans, stony deserts, warm swamps and vast grasslands, there lived an incredible variety of plants and animals. Invertebrates made up a huge number of Earth's life forms. Among them, giant sea scorpions as big as a lion terrorised the oceans, enormous millipedes fed on plants in dense Carboniferous forests and tiny wasps preyed on cockroach...
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