Product Description: With an extensive catalog at its heart, Prehistoric Life profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail. The story starts in earnest 3.8 billion years ago, with the earliest-known form of life on Earth, a bacteria that still exists today, and journeys through action-packed millennia, charting the appearance of new life forms as well as devastating extinction events. Of course, the ever-popular and endlessly intriguing dinosaurs feature large, but Prehistoric Life gives you the whole picture, and the plants, invertebrates, amphibians, birds, reptiles, and mammals that are the ancestors of today's species also populate its pages, making this book unprecedented in its coverage of prehistory. Specially commissioned artworks use cutting-edge technology to render species in breathtakingly realistic fashion, with astonishing images of prehistoric remains, such as skeletons and fossils, to complete the story. To put all the evidence in context, the concept of geological time is explored, as is the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.
Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 560 EAN: 9780756655730 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0756655730 Label: DK ADULT Manufacturer: DK ADULT Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: October 05, 2009 Publisher: DK ADULT Studio: DK ADULT
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Prehistoric Life
Prehistoric Life is exactly what its subtitle claims: The DEFINITIVE visual history of life on earth. I have never seen any one compilation of prehistorey that is as comprehensive as this. Additionally, the subject matter is presented in such a manner that it can be used for professional research and for the lay reader. The attractive illustrations add a very infomative dimension to the usefullness of this book.
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