Packed with striking photography, Eyewitness Fossil explores the creatures and plants that lived long ago. Become an eyewitness to the natural treasures found in rocks in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of all things fossils. Children will be mesmerized by the bones, teeth, and plants from long ago that have all been turned to rock. This beautifully illustrated guide for kids aged 9+ gives an insight into how paleontologists...

Describes, for each letter of the alphabet, an animal which lived much more recently than dinosaurs and which is now extinct.

Describes the physical characteristics and habits of prehistoric birds that are now extinct, such as archaeopteryx, and those of species that have either recently vanished or are facing extinction

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

Passenger pigeon hatchlings, thought to be extinct, are discovered in Grandmother's room after she departs on a voyage to Greenland

A look at the history of life on Earth starts in the present and goes back hundreds of millions of years to the Ediacaran Period, profiling the creatures that existed at each time.

Two million years ago, enormous creatures -- nine-foot flightless birds, giant seventeen-foot beavers, predatory marsupial lions as tall as elephants -- roamed Earth in huge numbers ... and then mysteriously went extinct. This program explores possible explanations put forward by scientists from Patagonia to Colorado to New Zealand: profound climatic change, inability of large animals to adapt to a changing environment, a killer virus, or wholesale...

Step-by-step instructions for drawing dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

"This amazing, informative book displays all the huge, wild creatures that existed during the last Ice Age! The Ice Age started around two and a half million years ago, when our planet was covered in ice sheets. Oceans froze, forcing some animals to extinction, but some fearsome Ice Age giants survived and roamed the Earth. Giant sloths fought off saber-toothed cats, and huge birds owned the skies. Mammoths walked across ice bridges over parts of...