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.
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.
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.
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.