Explore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators.
Join the hunt with Velociraptor, defend your prey with mighty Smilodon, see how you measure up to the biggest shark of all time and take to the skies with some of the world's most incredible birds of prey.
A stunning central gatefold opens to reveal a timeline of life on Earth and the size of these incredible hunters.
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Explore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators!
Features: Early predators on land, such as Dimetrodon and Dienonychus
riverbank hunters, such as Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus and Megapiranha giant
ground hunters dromaeosaurids giant prehistoric snakes early mammal
predators South American predators of the past Pleistocene predators
hunters of the sky flying reptiles prehistoric birds how prey animals
have evolved to cope with predators ancient hunters of the seas whales
sharks today's top predators felines ocean hunters of today insect
hunters birds of prey and snakes.
Also includes a gatefold showing these creatures placed upon a timeline of
the Earth and an index.
Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk Howard Gray loved to draw when he was growing up, and was always captivated by animals and nature. He pursued art throughout school but went on to study zoology at university, eventually completing a PhD on dolphins! Now, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator and has worked on many fiction and non-fiction projects. These days, he lives with his family in the picturesque city of Durham, UK.
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