"Text introduces young readers to odd meat-eating dinosaurs, including their physical characteristics, habitats, and diets"--

"Explores the science of and careers in paleontology using several examples of real-life scientists"--Provided by publisher.

Are you interested in dinosaurs and how they lived? Do you want to travel the world, digging through the earth's history? Then perhaps a career in paleontology is for you! Through first-hand accounts, interviews, and case studies, you'll learn what it takes to be a paleontologist.

Welcome to the wonderful world of plants, some of the planet's most amazing creatures. Plants turn sunlight into food, produce oxygen, and provide people with food, clothing, medicine, and much, much more. What's more, they can communicate. This dynamic book takes readers inside plant communication, a place where chemicals, sounds, and smells become the synapses, words, and motions of the plant world. Written to support elementary science curricula, this book offers a high-interest take on botany that is sure to spark readers' interest in plant biology.

These magnificent animals roamed the Earth for over 100 million years, and some were very weird dinosaurs. Check out the dinosaur that moved like a chicken, the one that had a mouth shaped like a shovel, and lots more.

Travel back to a time when dinosaurs roamed. See meat-eating raptors hunt their prey. Watch giant long-necked dinosaurs tower over trees. Look at horned dinosaurs fight off hungry predators. Engaging text paired with colorful photos let young readers explore the habitats, diets, and physical features of these prehistoric animals.

Arranged alphabetically, the encyclopedia presents an enormous amount of dinosaur information for budding paleontologists and amateur fossil hunters. Information cited includes what each dinosaur's name means, its pronunciation, its complete taxonomic classification, length, time period, place, diet, and other details. This easy-to-navigate book contains 700+ entries for every creature that has scientifically been verified a dinosaur (as well as those that are commonly mistaken for dinosaurs).