Ice Age Mammals of North America

Ice Age Mammals of North America

Author: Ian M. Lange

Publisher: Mountain Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780878426805

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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.


Mega Meltdown

Mega Meltdown

Author: Jack Tite

Publisher:

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781800788022

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The perfect introduction to the Ice Age, complete with ENORMOUS fold-out pages!


End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals

End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals

Author: Ross D E MacPhee

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-11-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0393249301

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The fascinating lives and puzzling demise of some of the largest animals on earth. Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. What caused the disappearance of these prehistoric behemoths? No one event can be pinpointed as a specific cause, but several factors may have played a role. Paleomammalogist Ross D. E. MacPhee explores them all, examining the leading extinction theories, weighing the evidence, and presenting his own conclusions. He shows how theories of human overhunting and catastrophic climate change fail to account for critical features of these extinctions, and how new thinking is needed to elucidate these mysterious losses. Along the way, we learn how time is determined in earth history; how DNA is used to explain the genomics and phylogenetic history of megafauna—and how synthetic biology and genetic engineering may be able to reintroduce these giants of the past. Until then, gorgeous four-color illustrations by Peter Schouten re-create these megabeasts here in vivid detail.


Ice Age Beasts

Ice Age Beasts

Author: Michael Jay

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781410900081

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


Frozen in Time

Frozen in Time

Author: Michael Oard

Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 0890514186

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Earth's past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles.One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many years and has come to some fascinating conclusions to help lift the fog engulfing the facts. Some of the questions he addresses include:What would cause the summer temperatures of the northern United States and European to plummet more than 50 degrees Fahrenheit?Why did mammoths become extinct across the entire earth at the same time as many other large mammals?Why are the mammoth carcasses found generally in standing positions?How could large lakes exist in what are today very dry, desert-like places?What was the source of the abnormal of moisture necessary for heavy snow?What caused the cold summer temperatures and heavy snowfall to persist for hundreds of years?In logical progression many other Ice Age topics are explained including super Ice Age floods, ice cores, man in the Ice Age, and the number of ice ages. This is one of the most difficult eras in geological history for a uniformitarian scientist (one who believes the earth evolved by slow processes over millions of years) to explain, simply because long ages of evolution cannot explain it. Provided here are plausible explanations of the seemingly unsolvable mysterious about the Ice Age and the woolly mammoths - Frozen in Time.


Woolly Mammoths

Woolly Mammoths

Author: Melissa Higgins

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1491421029

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"Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of woolly mammoths"--


Dodos

Dodos

Author: Melissa Higgins

Publisher: Capstone Classroom

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 1491423188

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"Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of dodos"--


Once and Future Giants

Once and Future Giants

Author: Sharon Levy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0199831548

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Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets. Then, just as the first humans reached the Americas, these Ice Age giants vanished forever. In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history--and our part in it--is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face the threat of another great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history. Deftly navigating competing theories and emerging evidence, Once and Future Giants examines the extent of human influence on megafauna extinctions past and present, and explores innovative conservation efforts around the globe. The key to modern-day conservation, Levy suggests, may lie fossilized right under our feet.


Journey to the Ice Age

Journey to the Ice Age

Author: Rien Poortvliet

Publisher: ABRAMS

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780810936485

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The acclaimed Dutch painter and illustrator of the enormously successful Gnomes takes readers back hundreds of thousands of years to the Ice Age. Through more than 220 pages of full-color illustrations and incisive text, Rien Poortvliet presents an up-close look at real and imaginary Ice Age animals.


Ground Sloths

Ground Sloths

Author: Joy Janet Frisch-Schmoll

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 1496628349

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Ground sloths were enormous, ice age plant eaters with giant claws. Awesome illustrations accompany carefully leveled text about food, habitat, life cycle, and extinction, bringing ground sloths to life like never before.