Author: Will Cuppy
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: extinct
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-08-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1567923658
ISBN-13: 9781567923650

In these forty brief essays, the perennially perturbed Will Cuppy turns his unflinching attention on those members of the animal kingdom whose habits are disagreeable, whose appearances are repellent, and whose continued existence is not necessarily a foregone conclusion. He is not - decidedly not - without reason. (The pike is pretty nasty as fish go, don’t you agree?)And while Cuppy may frequently leave in his wake more questions than answers, we surely owe him a debt of gratitude for at least asking. After all, someone has to consider the distinctions between Stoats and Ermines, or wh

Author: Charles Wilson
Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks
Keywords: extinct
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-05-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0312962126
ISBN-13: 9780312962128

Charles Wilson has received the highest praise from authors such as John Grisham and from reviewers, including being termed "Wizard Plotter" by the Los Angeles Times. Now, he has created his most chilling story yet-- a fast-paced thriller so realistic it will take your breath away and keep you riveted to the page.From the Gulf of Mexico’s warm shallow waters...to the deepest parts of the Pacific...terror comes to the surface...Six-year-old Paul Haines watches as two older boys dive into a coastal river...and don’t come up. His mother, Carolyn, a charter boat captain on the Mississi

Authors:Ian Tattersall, Jeffrey Schwartz,
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: humans, extinct
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-12-05
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0813339189
ISBN-13: 9780813339184

An assessment of the many species of humans - all but one of them now extinct - that have existed during the six-million-year-history of the hominid family Scientists have long envisioned the human"family tree" as a straight-line progression from the apelike australopithecines to the enigmatic Homo habilis to the famous Neanderthals, culminating in us, Homo sapiens. But this model is unlike the evolutionary patterns known for all other vertebrates-patterns that typically reveal multiple branchings and extinctions. In Extinct Humans, Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz present convincing evi

Author: Errol Fuller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: books, comstock, birds, extinct
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2001-04
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 080143954X
ISBN-13: 9780801439544

Ornithologists estimate that there have been 150,000 avian species since birds first appeared millions of years ago. If that figure, based on incomplete evidence, is correct, writes Errol Fuller, then nearly 94 percent of those species have gone extinct over time. Most have done so through more or less natural causes--through disease, say, or widespread climatic change. In historic times, though, many species have been hastened to extinction through human actions, inadvertent and deliberate. In the case of the Hawaiian rail, Fuller writes in this catalog of birds that have disappeared since

Author: Wallace Edwards
Publisher: Kids Can Press
Keywords: project, science, files, extinct
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1553379713
ISBN-13: 9781553379713

Wally was planning to do his science project on his pet iguana. But just as he was getting started, he made a major discovery sure to rock the scientific community. He saw a dinosaur. Not a fossil, but a real dinosaur, right outside his bedroom window. Dinosaurs are alive -- and living among us. In fact, they are right in Wally’s backyard! With the aid of stunning eyewitness accounts, The Extinct Files: My Science Project details the habitat, diet, grooming, health and fitness, communication and recreation of the contemporary dinosaurs, and much more. Wally has done his homework and it

Author: Christiane Gunzi
Publisher: Kingfisher
Keywords: animals, extinct, endangered, book
Number of Pages: 31
Published: 2004-09-09
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0753457571
ISBN-13: 9780753457573

From dinosaurs to Siberian tigers, this title is a superb introduction to creatures that are either extinct, such as the dodo, or those that are under threat. Discover some of the wildest habitats on Earth and the endangered animals that live there. Examine how people are working to save their fellow creatures.

Authors:Riehecky, Janet,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: monsters, extinct, blazers, cat, sabertooth
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $22.60
ISBN-10: 1429601175
ISBN-13: 9781429601177

Seven-inch fangs, huge claws, and a powerful body put the sabertooth cat at the top of the food chain. Find out more about the fierce cat that stabbed its dinner to death!