[PDF] Smithsonian Dinosaurs And Other Amazing Creatures From Deep Time eBook

Author : National Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1588346625

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A fun, pocket-sized book presenting the remarkable dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed Earth billions of years ago Smithsonian Dinosaurs and Other Amazing Creatures from Deep Time traces the journey of life on Earth from its origins some 4.6 billion years ago. Beginning with the first evidence of life in the form of single-celled microbes, it moves through the Cambrian era's explosion of biodiversity around 540 million years ago through the mass extinction event 252 million years ago that cleared the stage for the first turtles, pterosaurs, and other dinosaurs and mammals of the Triassic era. It offers a rare look at some of the world's most fascinating creatures: from sauropods, the largest creatures to ever walk the land, to the top carnivorous predator Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the mastodons, saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, walrus-whales, and other beasts that seem outlandish to us now. Profiling these and many other fascinating creatures throughout prehistory, the book is sure to delight young dinosaur enthusiasts.

Author : Helaine Becker
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1525307932

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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!

Author : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Animals, Fossil
ISBN : 9781912920051

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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.

Author : Kristen McCurry
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 35,37 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429687509

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"Provides information and step-by-step drawing instructions for 30 dinosaurs"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Hannah Bonner
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 142630546X

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Take a fun, fact-filled trip back to Earth as it was 430 million years ago. Then, watch as continents drift and oceans take shape. Watch out (!) as fish get toothier, plants stretch skywards and bugs get bigger. Soon fish get feet and four-legged creatures stalk the planet. Here’s the story of Earth in conversational text, informative illustrations, and humorous cartoons. Complete with time line, pronunciation guide, glossary and index.

Author : Thea Feldman
Publisher : Smithsonian Kids Deluxe Activi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,58 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680529463

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"Let's explore the prehistoric sea and meet some of the species who lived and swam there."--Back cover.

Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0691245614

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The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and the Blackfeet, the first people to encounter the dinosaur fossils exposed by the elements. What did Native Americans make of these stone skeletons, and how did they explain the teeth and claws of gargantuan animals no one had seen alive? Did they speculate about their deaths? Did they collect fossils? Beginning in the East, with its Ice Age monsters, and ending in the West, where dinosaurs lived and died, this richly illustrated and elegantly written book examines the discoveries of enormous bones and uses of fossils for medicine, hunting magic, and spells. Well before Columbus, Native Americans observed the mysterious petrified remains of extinct creatures and sought to understand their transformation to stone. In perceptive creation stories, they visualized the remains of extinct mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine creatures as Monster Bears, Giant Lizards, Thunder Birds, and Water Monsters. Their insights, some so sophisticated that they anticipate modern scientific theories, were passed down in oral histories over many centuries. Drawing on historical sources, archaeology, traditional accounts, and extensive personal interviews, Adrienne Mayor takes us from Aztec and Inca fossil tales to the traditions of the Iroquois, Navajos, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Pawnees. Fossil Legends of the First Americans represents a major step forward in our understanding of how humans made sense of fossils before evolutionary theory developed.