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National Geographic Prehistoric Mammals
by
Alan Turner
Written by one of the world's foremost paleontologists, this resource gives young readers a rare glimpse at a world gone by. More than 100 mammals, from the saber-toothed tiger to the woolly mammoth, are showcased in full-color detail.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
October 1st 2004
by National Geographic Children's Books
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This gorgeously illustrated book has an intended audience of upper middle- and highschool readers, but it's chock full of really great information and I felt like I got a lot out of it. The text covers individual prehistoric mammals and families of creatures, as well as topics like taxonomy, evolution, and fossil reconstruction. The illustrations include artist's conceptions of the animals, as well as photos and drawings of fossils and photographs of modern-day relatives of the extinct creatures...more
4.5 stars:
It'd been close to 4 years since my last book on prehistoric beasties, so I'd been looking forward to this one for a long time. This was strictly on fossil mammals, which are probably my favorite family of ancient critters. My only complaint about this book? Too short!
It was divided into sections based on Order and sometimes Family below that. This was a great way to get a feel for what living and extinct animals were related to each beast, and I really liked it. The book was from 2005...more
It'd been close to 4 years since my last book on prehistoric beasties, so I'd been looking forward to this one for a long time. This was strictly on fossil mammals, which are probably my favorite family of ancient critters. My only complaint about this book? Too short!
It was divided into sections based on Order and sometimes Family below that. This was a great way to get a feel for what living and extinct animals were related to each beast, and I really liked it. The book was from 2005...more
This National Geographic book was fulfilled with lots of great illustrations, but admittedly had a fairly superficial treatment of the topic. It covered all of the usual suspects: mammoths, mastodons, wholly rhinos, saber-toothed cats, ground sloths, glyptodonts, etc. It also highlighted some less well-known prehistoric mammals. Not bad if you're looking for an unusual coffee table book, but not very in depth if you're looking for lots of scientific info.
I think that it's really interesting. It has all these crazy mammals that we don't see today.
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