Product Description: Team up with Ackerley the Acanthostega to travel back 65 million years to the Tertiary and Quaternary periods of prehistoric Earth, when mammals came to dominate the planet. Many of them are now extinctbut not the most powerful of all: humans! Discover the facts, fossils, and fun science of behind the intriguing mammals of this time period, including killer pigs, the largest land mammal ever, and the earliest humans...read more

Product Description: Team up with Ackerley the Acanthostega to travel back 65 million years to the Tertiary and Quaternary periods of prehistoric Earth, when mammals came to dominate the planet. Many of them are now extinctbut not the most powerful of all: humans! Discover the facts, fossils, and fun science of behind the intriguing mammals of this time period, including killer pigs, the largest land mammal ever, and the earliest humans...read more

Product Description: Even though mammals can be found almost everywhere on Earth, they make up only a small percentage of animal species. Even so, the diversity among mammals is staggering. This volume explains mammals similarities and differences from one another, their anatomy and behaviors, and more...read more

Product Description: This work details the pattern of bird and mammal evolution prior to the Cenozoic era as well as the critical first 10-million-year span of the Cenozoic known as the Paleocene epoch, during which mammals and birds rapidly adapted to the new ecological conditions.

The fourth of four comic-style books providing an introduction to the beginning of time. Cartoon illustrations accompany the text to retell the story of the Big Bang, evolution, dinosaurs and the beginning of mankind. Events are explained in simple terms with statistics and timelines included.

Discusses the evolution of vertebrates on earth from earliest life forms.