In this adventure, Markie and the team are heading for California. In the San Bernardino National Forest, there is trouble brewing. Saber-toothed tigers and giant short-faced bears are creating great havoc. They are really dangerous and put the team in extreme situations. However, things are not what they seem. An unseen figure is watching the team's movements and is doing whatever it can to hinder their efforts in succeeding in this mission. What could possibly happen?
Markie is a regular ten-year-old boy who has a normal life. That is until he uses his dad's time opener and accidentally blows it up, leaving the US parks vulnerable to prehistoric and extinct animals. Fortunately, Markie forms a team that deals with the animals, which has him, his friends, and some new companions in it. Now they go on their first adventure to New Mexico to deal with an animal called an Ambulocetus. But will Markie and the group be able to deal with it all by themselves?
In this adventure, Markie and the team are heading for California. In the San Bernardino National Forest, there is trouble brewing. Saber-toothed tigers and giant short-faced bears are creating great havoc. They are really dangerous and put the team in extreme situations. However, things are not what they seem. An unseen figure is watching the team's movements and is doing whatever it can to hinder their efforts in succeeding in this mission. What could possibly happen?
Markie is a regular ten-year-old boy who has a normal life. That is until he uses his dad's time opener and accidentally blows it up, leaving the US parks vulnerable to prehistoric and extinct animals. Fortunately, Markie forms a team that deals with the animals, which has him, his friends, and some new companions in it. Now they go on their first adventure to New Mexico to deal with an animal called an Ambulocetus. But will Markie and the group be able to deal with it all by themselves?
The call coming from the Dakota Grasslands summons the watchers when sail-back reptiles are noticed there. While doing their usual routine in this mission, they are unexpectedly attacked by those sail-back reptiles and some other animals. With these various attacks in different places, the team starts to suspect and wonder if an unknown foe is behind this. They end up in a showdown and discover who the villain really is. How will they be able to foil the plot of this new enemy?
When Markie and the team are called to the High Schells Wilderness in Nevada, they think that the situation is going to be easy. But when they get confronted by predatory dinosaurs and get trapped in another time, things change. They now all have to survive and wait until a solution appears. This will be quite an adventure for the watchers and the 5Ds.
In this next adventure, the Watchers' destination is for Gee Creek Wilderness in the state of Tennessee, where there have been reports of great auks--penguin-like flightless birds. When they attempt to send them back to their time, the birds do not want to go back there. Even more unexpected, the Watchers end up in the time the great auks are from. They then get captured by Vikings, who work for none other than LM himself. There is also something Markie doesn't know that will be shocking and very surprising to him. Who will rescue the watchers from the villain's grasp?
Travel back in time to the Ice Age in this installment of the hit nonfiction graphic novel series about prehistoric Earth! After the dinosaurs died out, Earth was by no means empty. There were still some little resourceful critters around who, without big predators to hunt them down, survived and thrived. Who were these scrappy creatures? Early mammals, our ancestors! In the Cenozoic Era, mammals rose to dominance and spread over the globe, resulting in woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, and eventually all of humankind. In this adventure, readers will meet the three kinds of mammals—monotremes, marsupials, and placental mammals—as well as the other amazing ancient beasts they shared the Earth with during the Cenozoic Era. Travel along on this fascinating journey through time, from 66 million years ago to present day. Want more adventures in prehistoric Earth? Check out the other books in the Earth Before Us series: Dinosaur Empire! and Ocean Renegades!
Winsor McCay, the creator of Little Nemo in Slumberland, is internationally renowned as a pioneer in comics and animation. But author Ulrich Merkl’s dedicated sleuthing has unearthed a never-published strip by McCay that was lost following the artist’s untimely death. Titled simply Dino, it opens a surprising new window into McCay’s life and work and showcases his exquisitely beautiful and delicate delineations (exactingly reproduced from the original art). Merkl explores the influences McCay brought to the strip―including McCay’s own Gertie the Dinosaur animated shorts, the animation in 1933’s King Kong, and the growth of New York City from the Holland Tunnel to the Empire State Building ―and traces our love of dinosaurs and monster movies down through the decades. Breathtakingly designed, each page of this deluxe oversize volume is overflowing with amazing imagery, with more than 650 photographs and illustrations (more than 250 in color) ― most of them seen here for the first time in a century! An essential volume for everyone interested in the development of the comic strip ― and our never-ending fascination with dinosaurs!
Since the dinosaurs died out over 65 million years ago our planet has been dominated by mammals. A succession of bizarre evolutionary specimens have come and gone -- from walking whales to sabre-toothed cats -- yet many of these magnificent creatures have never been visualized before. Now, for the first time, spectacular and unfamiliar animals are recreated and set in the context of their world. Walking with Prehistoric Beasts reveals the extraordinary ancestors of modern mammals and the arrival of man, bringing to life the roots of our heritage. Following on from the hugely-acclaimed Walking with Dinosuars, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts recreates the creatures and landscapes of post-dinosaur Earth; transporting us to the icy plains of the mammoth, dark forests stalked by giant carnivorous birds, and deserts dominated by 16 ton Indricotheres. From the tiny fruit-eating primate Apidium, to the powerful chalicotheres, whose curved claws forced them to walk on their knuckles, the lives of these little known creatures are vividly brought to life. Meet the bizarre hose-nosed Macrauchenia, and the Deodicurus, a giant armadillo with a spiked club for a tail; run with cat-sized horses and rhino-sized carnivorous pigs, hunt with the skull-crushing Andrewsarchus, and walk with the very first humans. Illustrated boxes describe the latest scientific evidence that led to the reconsturctions of these creatures, while character boxes provide information on behavior and habitats. The text is illustrated throughout with ground-breaking computer graphic images to offer a unique record of lost worlds never seen before and reveal many of the most spectacular periods in Earth's history. Also available, accompanying the Walking with Prehistoric Beasts TV series, are books for children, home videos, a DVD, and a CD of the soundtrack from the series.
