extinct animals

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The Atlantic Gray Whale

1989
Examines how the hunting of the Atlantic gray whale led to its extinction in the early 1700's, describes the physical characteristics, habits, and threats to the survival of the gray whale, and discusses ancient and modern whaling methods.

King Gorboduc's fabulous zoo

1986
A king's fabulous private zoo containing a unicorn, griffin, dodo, and mammoth changes course when a dragon joins its ranks.

The evolution and extinction of the dinosaurs

1996
A presentation of dinosaurs as they are viewed by paleontologists, using up-to-date methods to discuss what dinosaurs were, what they did, and how they did it, and studying the dinosaur in relation to the fuller concept of natural history.

Endangered & Extinct Animals

2006
Learn why some species have become extinct or are about to, and how to make a difference by respecting animal habitats. Hands-on experiment.

The illustrated dinosaur encyclopedia

1989
The complete story of the dinosaurs with a field guide, paleontological maps, and diagrams.

Artemis Fowl

2009
As a ten-year-old boy, Artemis Fowl made an unfortunate bargain that caused the extinction of the silky sifaka lemur. Now his mother is dying from an illness that can only be cured by the brain fluid of the extinct lemur. Artemis again travels back in time to try to outwit his ten-year-old self and save the lemur and his mother.

A gap in nature

discovering the world's extinct animals
2001
Illustrations and text help catalogue more than one hundred creatures that have been extinct since Christopher Columbus first discovered the New World; providing information on where the animal lived, what it looked like, and what factors might have contributed to its disappearance.

Giant kangaroo

2008
Simple text and illustrations describe giant kangaroos, how they lived, and how they became extinct.

The Usborne book of prehistoric facts

1986
Lists facts about the prehistoric world in chronological order from the earliest forms of life to the invention of writing.

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