Find out how animals lived, fought, and died during the Ice Age.

Kids will have fun coloring while learning about the saber-toothed cat, woolly mammoth, and giant ground sloth as well as flightless birds and giant lizards. Includes 44 images with descriptive captions.

Lange untangles the complex evolutionary lineages of mammal families, including the gomphotheres, elephant-like creatures that coexisted with humans at the end of the Pleistocene. You�ll learn about the geologic events that led to the ice ages, along with possible causes for the mass extinctions of so many species.

The animals that roamed the earth millions of years ago looked and acted very different from the animals you find in your backyard today. This new series takes readers on a journey back in time to take a close-up look at these prehistoric animals. Engaging text and illustrations discussing how these animals lived and died out, allow readers to feel as though they are walking, flying, and swimming with these amazing and fierce creatures.

"From the icy Arctic vastness to the steamy tropical swamps of Florida, people came upon a teeming variety of animals in North America after the Ice Age. The book travels the continent region by region, introducing fascinating and bizarre beasts including ground sloths, glyptodonts, mastodons, mammoths, saber-toothed and scimitar-toothed cats, and the short-faced bear. Alongside these now-extinct animals were lions, cheetahs, zebras, and camels - animals that have long since disappeared from their North American homes - as well as species still seen today, such as caribou, grizzlies, eagles, salmon, bison, coyotes, prairie dogs, condors, alligators, and jaguars." "A wealth of fossil evidence informs the stunning computer-generated panoramas that fill the pages of the volume. Bones of the ancient beasts again have flesh and fur, unfamiliar animals again roam the landscapes, and the world of prehistoric North America comes startlingly to life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Forty-one highly detailed, accurately rendered illustrations of ancient animals include the Megistoterium, one of the largest flesh-eating mammals that ever lived; the Smilodon, largest of saber-toothed tigers; the giraffe-like Indricotherium that browsed on treetops, and many more — all royalty-free. Captions.

Contains descriptions of several prehistoric animals. Mostly color illustrations with short paragraphs about each animal. Includes a map of where each lived.