Prehistoric (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Prehistoric Features visual detail, comprehensive entries on hundreds of species, and research that provide the whole picture of the creatures and plants that represent Earth's prehistoric life. This guide helps you explore the rise and fall of successive organisms, devastating extinctions and the knife-edge progress of evolution.
Full description- Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
- Published: 01 October 2009
- Format: Hardback 512 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Dinosaurs & The Prehistoric World
- ISBN 13: 9781405337045 ISBN 10: 1405337044
- Sales rank: 88,777
Full description for Prehistoric
Experience a story 3.8 billion years in the making, with this unparalleled visual guide to prehistoric life. Unprecedented visual detail, comprehensive entries on hundreds of species and the latest research provide the whole picture of the creatures and plants that represent Earth's prehistoric life. Journey through the millennia and explore the rise and fall of successive organisms, devastating extinctions and the knife-edge progress of evolution. Fantastic photographs and images present each species in exceptional clarity, including 3D CT scans that transform inert fossils into species that almost live and breath on the page. Discover a huge catalogue, profiling a vast and diverse array of plants, fungi, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles and mammals and discover how they have evolved through time. From giant dinosaurs to lesser-known species that faced a similar, cataclysmic demise, this is a fascinating and essential reference on prehistoric life for the whole family.
