Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs: The Definitive Pop-Up

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From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on our planet.

Open this book and a massive T. REX springs out, flashing a startling jawful of jagged teeth. Turn the next spread and a ravishing raptor unfurls and appears to fly off the edge of the page. Inside the amazing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS are "shield bearers" in full-body armor, creatures with frilly headgear, and weighty, long-necked giants. There are even amusing tidbits on the history of paleontology itself — like a pop-up version of a Victorian New Year's dinner in the belly of a dinosaur model, or a pair of scientists locked in a literal tug-of-war over bones.

Full of fascinating facts and lighthearted good humor, this breathtaking book includes fascinating, up-to-the-minute information about popular dinosaurs as well as many lesser-known varieties. With each of six spreads featuring one spectacular, large pop-up as well as booklets of smaller pop-ups and text, ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS is a magnificent display of paper engineering and creativity — an astonishing book that will be read, admired, and treasured forever.

Customer Reviews:

Love Pop-Up Books.......2007-10-14

This pop-up book was the best! It had everything. I gave it to my Nephew for Christmas and he hates anything that isn't a video game, but really did enjoy this book.

Terrific.......2007-10-13

I got these for my grandkids & dinosaur lovers. They were a big hit with the kids. Their faces just lit up as they saw how the pages opened up with more & more information & pictures.

Awesome, fun and educational!.......2007-10-10

Bought this on a whim for my 4 1/2 year old son. He loves it! There are so many pop-up dinousaurs. The verbiage is a little too scientific for his age group, but he loves hearing it anyhow. We like to read the section on meat-eaters over and over again. It's fun to look at, and is very educational. I learned a thing or two about dinosaurs myself.

so cool.......2007-10-10

I still can't get over that I got this awesome book for only 6 dollars. It was so worth it!

Domosaur PopUp Book.......2007-09-29

This book was absolutely amazing. The detail of each and every dinosaur was just phenomenal. I purchased several for Christmas presents. My 5yo grandson is soo crazy for anything dinosaur. I know it will make a big impression on him if no one else. Recommend child shoukld use this book with some adult supervision due to the intricate popups. The price was good too.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and other Sea Monsters
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters
Excellent pop up book, reading is complicated
Absolutely amazing!!!
Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters
Robert Sabuda , and Matthew Reinhart
Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 076362229X
Release Date: 2006-04-11

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Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water! The second astonishing ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA book from Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart is about to pop up everywhere.

While dinosaurs patrolled the lands, massive prehistoric sharks, giant scorpions, and colossal squid cruised the ancient oceans - most with just one thing in mind: eat or be eaten. In this companion volume to the best-selling ENCYCLOPEDIA PREHISTORICA: DINOSAURS, pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart explore the prehistoric underwater world, where monsters like megalodon ruled the waves.

Full of captivating facts and more than 35 breathtaking pop-ups, this incredible volume is sure to astonish and amaze everyone from budding marine biologists to confirmed landlubbers. After all, if prehistoric coelacanths and crocodiles are still around, what else might be lurking in today's largely unexplored oceans?

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Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and other Sea Monsters.......2007-10-03

Absolutely gorgeous and intriguing pop-ups. Good information about the sharks and sea monsters. I love all things by Robert Sabuda. Good for kids 4 and older.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters.......2007-08-25

This is an awesome pop up book! I bought it for my 3 year old's B-Day. He loves looking at the book while I read to him about the prehistoric Mega-Beasts. I actually have learned a lot myself from this book. Although you would normally think this book is for boys. My six year old daughter also enjoys me reading these books to her. They are fun and very educational. I am a high school teacher and I really think this pop up book would be very valuable to any science classroom. I liked this book so much I also purchased the other two in the set!

Excellent pop up book, reading is complicated.......2007-08-16

Cool book. Reading is over the age category of my daughters, but they simply enjoy the pop ups.

Absolutely amazing!!!.......2007-08-13

This book is unbelievable! The attention to detail is fantastic. Absolute value for money and a must for any child who is as taken with sharks dinosaurs as my son is.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica: Sharks and Other Sea Monsters.......2007-08-12

Robert Sabuda always does a fantastic job and this is just another example of an exciting, educational pop-up book.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts (Encyclopedia Prehistorica)

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Mega Beasts Live.....
My cousins wish it was a toy!
Really great book!
Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts
So unbelievably cool!

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts (Encyclopedia Prehistorica)

Manufacturer: Candlewick
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0763622303
Release Date: 2007-05-08

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Lions and tigers and bears. . . . Stand back for a beast of a pop-up!

Within these dynamic pages lurk fearsome saber-toothed cats, bears taller than basketball hoops, and everyone’s favorite Ice Age giant — the woolly mammoth. Prehistoric Yeti-like mammals, now-extinct birds, and giant flying lizards all come alive in a showcase featuring more than thirty-five astonishing pop-ups. In this third and final volume of the best-selling Encyclopedia Prehistorica series, 3-D masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart tackle the titans of the ancient world, awing us with a humbling close-up look at some startling mega-beasts that preceded us on planet Earth.

Customer Reviews:

Mega Beasts Live............2007-10-15

Wow what a great pop up book. I remember as a kid I had a Star Wars pop up book and to think that they still make them. This book is very cool and holds my 6 year old sons interest in Pre historic Beasts. Great detail on the pop ups with descriptions on each Beast. What a treat!

My cousins wish it was a toy!.......2007-09-17

This is a great book to teach kids about biology, evolution and nature in general.

Some (if not all) of the fold out creatures are amazing feats of ingenuity ;the mammoth with its long trunk never ceases to capture my cousins attentions (aged 3 and 6). The only problem I have is that they think the book is a toy and they want to touch the animals. I highly recommend these series for all that like to tell stories and teach young kids about the world we live in....and anybody else that like colourful graphics and amazing craftsmanship.

Really great book!.......2007-09-06

I bought my 5 year old all three of the books in this series and he loves them! The pop ups are so complex, yet they stand up every time. There are 5 or 6 pop ups on each page, so the book is chock full of fun for my son.

Encyclopedia Prehistorica Mega-Beasts .......2007-08-25

So unbelievably cool!.......2007-08-18

Holy cow this is the most amazing pop-up book I've ever seen! I cannot wait until my son is old enough to enjoy this book. It's absolutely filled with fantastic pop-ups PLUS great information to boot.

Just thinking about it makes me smile. :D Definitely buy this book, you'll love it!

The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life

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An engrossing and informative volume for laymen or experts
Engaging at first, but then the flaws ...
On the second thought...
An incredible work
Fascinating pictures and fascinating text !

The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life
Barry Cox , Colin Harrison , R.J.G. Savage , Brian Gardiner , and Douglas Palmer
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0684864118

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An unmatched reference work distinguished by its erudition and beauty, The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures is an illustrated who's who of prehistoric life, a Baedeker of more than 500 million years of evolution on Earth.

With entries for more than 600 species, each arranged in its evolutionary sequence, the book presents a panorama of enormous diversity, from predatory dinosaurs to primitive amphibians, from giant armored fish to woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and dire wolves. Each entry features a specially commissioned full-color painting prepared according to the best research of today in close collaboration with world-renowned paleontologists. The records of the rocks -- fossil bones, teeth, skin, hair and even footprints and nests -- have been combined with knowledge of the anatomy and behavior of present-day descendants to arrive at informed judgments about posture, color and other aspects of appearance.

Lively and informative "biographies" of the creatures accompany these remarkable illustrations: how they moved, what they ate, where they ranged and the habitats and ecological niches they occupied. Comparisons are made wherever possible with familiar living animals, highlighting both the contrasts and similarities. Also included are articles on subjects such as the time scale of evolution, fossil formation and interpretation and convergent evolution.

Truly a magnificent sourcebook, The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures is both a triumph of scholarship and a work of art. It will stand as the best and most accurate presentation of the prehistoric animal world available.

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An engrossing and informative volume for laymen or experts.......2005-02-09

This volume is the best one I've found on prehistoric creatures. Having always been fascinated by them, I wanted as an adult to find something to broaden the base I'd built as a kid obsessed with Tyrannosaurus and trilobites. Though I'm far from a paleontologist or even a biologist (my own training is in anthropology and linguistics) I find this book a pleasure to browse and consult.

Beginning with the earliest worm-like organisms and evolving through the early fish, amphibians and armored sea creatures, the book continues on up through dinosaurs, Pleistocene megafauna and finally simians and hominids. The desciptions are brief but seem informative, but it is the quality of the artwork that I value most. I never tire of looking at the colorful depictions of the denizens of Devonian swamps, Ordovician seas and Jurassic forests.

So, while I cannot pretend to be an authority, and though I certainly must defer some credibility and ask that you look at my review in conjunction with those of my fellow critics who disagree, I offer my personal recommendation on this book to any person interested in prehistoric life and what it must have been like.

Engaging at first, but then the flaws ..........2000-07-04

This book looked great at first, but then, on closer inspection, the drawings are second-rate, the information is thin, and the inaccuracies mount. Yet, there are no real alternatives that seek to comprehensively catalogue ancient life. I'd still buy it, but my enthusiasm has waned.

On the second thought..........2000-02-24

Several months after acquiring the book I leaf through it and wonder how I could have given it such a high rating as I did. It has flaws throughout!

- The book appears to have a drastic shortage of species to list - it is only half as thick as Simon and Schuster's Encyclopedia of Animals - despite the fact that on numerous occasions they list but one or two species from a thirty-species family;

- The art is severely degraded from the above mentioned encyclopedia of animals. While I can see the puzzlement concerning the colors of the creatures' hides, there is no excuse for the the sloppy drawings of several of the animals! If you make a conjecture, please, be sure to follow through! On several of the animals the hair cover fails to obey the laws of physics, and most of the amphibians look like a horrid joke.

- The information is sketchy at best - on numerous occasions special biological mechanisms are mentioned (like a new jaw bone arrangement for the fishes, and the skull structures of the early land animals), yet are never explained in function. Almost all species are captioned with the basics like weight and dimensions followed with senseless filler.

- The between-section class summarizations and the cladistic graphs are also very, very basic. While I understand that the book was not intended for specialists, even the basic layman will find the charts a bit "dumbed down".

This book is flashy and artful, but lacking, lacking a great lot.

An incredible work.......1999-12-28

I have always longed for such a book. Probably it's a grave mistake on my part to make that the firt sentense of a review, but still. I daresay, anyone who has ever been in the very least intereste in paleontology has always longed for this sort of tome. The authors have satisfied both our love of visuals ( pictures are abundant - they accompiny every entry, in full blazing color by very trustworthy artists, generally sure to catch anyone's eye) and our love of the unknown ( this is the first non-specialist book that I have seen that goes beyond the everyday banal creatures like the pachycephalosaurus and the pterosaurids). This book is sheer pleasure while doing any sort of research, even for the specialists who need solid information. Perhaps there isn't quite enough data with every entry ( due to page limits), but the information that is included is accurate and up-to-date. This is a very good book.

Fascinating pictures and fascinating text !.......1999-11-10

I have been looked for such a book for a long time, and now I have it. Reading this book is delightful, as it gives you plenty of informations about prehistoric animals in a very attractive manner. You have very nice pictures of all animals, with a short explanation giving all essential data about them (size, anatomic singularities, food habits, ...). In addition, extremely interesting introducing sections give you a vision of each branch of animals, together with explanations on the evolutionary process concerning them.

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How did those enormous dinosaur skeletons get inside the museum?

Long ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Then, suddenly, they died out. For thousands of years, no one knew these giant creatures had ever existed. Then people began finding fossils -- bones and teeth and footprints that had turned to stone. Today, teams of experts work together to dig dinosaur fossils out of the ground, bone by fragile bone. Then they put the skeletons together again inside museums, to look just like the dinosaurs of millions of years ago.

Customer Reviews:

Very Amusing.......2007-03-25

I just thought this book was flat-out funny, for kids and adults. Although most of the humor is in the pictures, there's a little bit mixed in with the text as well.

Before reading this book, I didn't know that most dinosaur skeletons in museums were actually copies of real-life skeletons. But when you think about it, it makes sense. I mean, how many complete authentic T-rex skeletons are out there? Not too many. Got to have copies if you want people to see skeletons.

I kept looking for the author's last name in this book but never found it.

And you know, I always thought I'd be a paleontologist when I was a kid, and even though I don't want to be one anymore, it's still fun to read great stuff like this.

Easy/ fun to read, comprehensive, informative, & great pics.......1998-11-12

I am six years old and in second grade. I needed a book for my report on Apatasaurus. This book was just perfect. I had to have 5 sources for my report, and this book was my favorite. I have a few other books on Dinosaurs from this author too. I like the way he writes. Thanks for your help with all the good information.

Fossils Tell of Long Ago (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

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Fossils for Primary Learners
Another hit from Aliki
A review of the record of fossils for children Ages 5 and up
Aliki's blatant attempt at political correctness.

Fossils Tell of Long Ago (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

Manufacturer: HarperTrophy
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0064450937

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What is a fossil?

Sometimes it's the imprint of an ancient leaf in a rock. Sometimes it's a woolly mammoth, frozen for thousands of years in the icy ground. Sometimes it's the skeleton of a stegosaurus that has turned to stone.

A fossil is anything that has been preserved, one way or another, that tells about life on Earth. But you can make a fossil, too--something to be discovered a million years from now--and this book will tell you how.

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Fossils for Primary Learners.......2006-11-03

My son and I enjoyed this book and used it to add to our study of fossils. The book was easy to understand the artwork was engaging. I recomend this book for primary grades 1-3.

Another hit from Aliki.......2006-02-28

I love the Let's Read and Find Out science series, and Aliki is one of my family's favorite authors, so this book is a real winner for us. Clearly written text and lovely illustrations make for an enjoyable read-aloud for K-2 level students, or an informative read-alone book for older kids or early readers.

A review of the record of fossils for children Ages 5 and up.......2000-01-31

Fossils tell of long ago is a good book for children. Brightly illustrated pictures help them grasp the facts of fossils. It includes a fun experiment, too, along with a clear explanation of how fossils were made. I give this book four stars.

Aliki's blatant attempt at political correctness........1999-11-18

While this book is still a decent introduction to fossils for children, I'm giving it two stars because it is a VERY different book from the original (published in 1972, I believe) that I read and loved as a child. I purchased this version thinking it would be the same as the original (except for the different cover and perhaps some updates to the information therein). Well, I was wrong. ALL of the illustrations have changed (NOT for the better, either, in my opinion). There are now children of every hue pictured, and even a black boy in a wheel chair. How nice. This is what all children's books of the future will look like, apparently. (Classic children's books that don't include pictures of kids from various ethnic groups will need to be re-illustrated.) Aliki, why did you mess with a perfectly good original?

If you've read the original edition of this book, DON'T purchase this one, as I think you'll be disappointed. Search for a used copy of the original.

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All about the book.

Kind of complete...

Congratulations - Excellent

Prehistoric Life

Good but needs a little extra

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
Tim Haines , and Paul Chambers
Manufacturer: Firefly Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1554071259

Book Description

The most exciting view of prehistoric life.

"Comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia to prehistoric animals... lifelike detail... this easily readable book should appeal to dinosaur enthusiasts of all ages."
-Science News

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life. The book's concise, jargon-free text and full color illustrations bring the primordial world to vivid photo-realistic life. In-depth profiles of 112 kinds of beasts cover physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat and behavior. Throughout, "fascinating fact" sidebars offer additional bits of "dinotrivia." But there is more than dinosaurs here. Readers will find creatures from triobites to early human beings.

At the heart of the book are 350 richly detailed and lifelike color illustrations -- accompanied by comprehensive text -- which are the result of pioneering work by the Emmy award-winning creative team at Framestore CFC. Using animation, graphic effects and filmmaking, they recreated awe-inspiring prehistoric creatures and the world they lived in. These images are now reproduced to thrill readers.

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life was published to accompany two BBC TV prime-time programs, Life Before Dinosaurs and Walking with Life, both part of the Discovery Channel's award-winning Walking with Dinosaurs series.

Customer Reviews:

All about the book........2007-08-28

This is a great book. It features 111 of the animals from the BBC's famous "walking with" series. Unlike other books about prehistoric animals, it has realistic illustrations.

The "walking with" series is about prehistoric life that lived millions of years ago. It has many episodes. My favorite is Walking With Prehistoric Beasts which is about life in the Cenozoic era.

Though the book features most animals from the "walking with...." series it introduces a new specie called homo floresiensis. This human is not featured in any production of the walking with series.

The contents of this book are divided into the rise of life, age of reptiles, age of beasts, timescale of the earth and tree of life. The rise of life lists the creatures of the Paleozoic era. The age of reptiles lists the creatures in the Mesozoic era. The age of beasts lists the creatures in the Cenozoic era. Each chapter has great illustrations.

Most of the animals featured in the book are vertebrates. There were only nine invertebrates. Two of them are molluscs while the rest are arthropods.

The illustrations in this book are so realistic that in an illustration of a homo sapien, I knew exactly what the clothes felt like.

Everyone should get this book. It is a must for anyone who wants to collect books about prehistoric life.

Kind of complete..........2007-03-12

The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life uses information and computer created animals from the Walking with...series as well as the Chased by Dinosaurs and Sea Monsters television series to fill the book with realistic, real looking photos of animals from the past. Starting over 535 million years ago we trace the fight between predator and prey, the invasion of land, the Age of Dinosaurs and the Age of Mammals. Some creatures, such as many of the early primates shown in the Walking With Beasts, have their information expanded on. Others, like that giant spider which was the star of one of the Walking With Monsters episodes, is not even touched on. They just show one picture. And they also added such animals such as Homo floresiensis, who was unknown at the time of the shows.
Each part of the book starts out with general information of changes in the climate, details about mass extinctions and the movements of the continents.

Congratulations - Excellent.......2007-02-08

Thanks for your product - it's too much good!
It's satisfy my better expectatives...

Have a good day...

Prehistoric Life.......2007-01-04

An excellent book based on the series Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and Walking with Monsters. Text is sophisticated HS level. Excellent illustrations. Excellent selection of creatures from earliest to latest, including Flores man. Even though the text is a bit high for him, my 9 year old loves this book and we often read the selections at bedtime.

Good but needs a little extra.......2006-11-07

Another good book..but if you want a lot of dinosaurs, use this with other guides.
This covers various prehistoric life. Not all the pages give you a good look at the animal and it only covers a small portion of dinosaurs. But because it does cover some creatures that almost never make it into guides on prehistoric life, this is a great book to use with other guides and is fun to read.

Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals

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Smarter than the average dinosaur book!
Exhaustive Research

Dinosaurs to Dodos: An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals
Don Lessem
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0590316842

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From the first microscope sea creatures to the Tasmanian wolf, this book traces all of extinct life. Each chapter covers the animals themselves, the processes that brought them to extinction, and the modern scientific discoveries that reveal their lost words.

Customer Reviews:

Smarter than the average dinosaur book!.......2003-02-27

My first-grader brought this home from the school library and we both loved it. It's well organized, clearly written, and tells you stuff that's not in every dinosaur book you already own. And the illustrations are spectacular. A real find for fans of dinosaurs and other mysterious creatures.

Exhaustive Research.......1999-07-11

As a writer acquainted with the grueling research that went into the production of this book, I can tell you, Don Lessem has laid out a remarkable overview of prehistoria in DINOSAURS TO DODOS. As a fellow writer and dinosaur enthusiast, I wish him great success with the project. It's a must for any elementary school library.

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So many ideas in one book
Amazing book-I learned lots too!

Boy, Were We Wrong About Dinosaurs
Kathleen V. Kudlinski
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0525469788

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The ancient Chinese thought they were magical dragons. Some old-time scientists thought that because they were so big, all they could do was float in water. Boy, were they wrong! Even today, once-common notions about dinosaurs are being revised as new discoveries are made. This lively book about the perennially popular subject of dinosaurs offers fascinating insight into how certain theories were formed, and then how those theories were proved or disproved. It demonstrates that scientific thought is as creative as it is logical and invites budding scientists to come up with their own ideas.

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So many ideas in one book.......2007-06-16

We just got this book from the library today and I came online to buy it because I just love it. It gives a little information about a lot of topics, without pushing anything too hard. Most importantly to my taste, it describes the constant progression of scientific understanding. But the book also touches gently on various cultural interpretations of fossils, the archaeology involved in finding the fossils, the continued development of technological tools for studying the same physical evidence, the hope of the next generation of minds, and the certainty that change will come. Very succint too. My dino-loving-three-year-old and my very-precocious-six-year-old both absolutely loved it.

Amazing book-I learned lots too!.......2007-02-27

A student of mine picked this up at a dinosaur museum and I have since bought it for several children as a gift. It is so informative and the illustrations are great! I also bought one for infant my son for when he's older!

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So Realistic, It's Scary!
Look's Good
Chased By Sea Monsters!
Sea Monsters
Ichthysoaurs, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, oh my!

Chased By Sea Monsters
Nigel Marven , and Jasper James
Manufacturer: DK ADULT
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ASIN: 0756603757

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Following the hugely successful Walking with Dinosaurs and Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, DK dives into the past to swim with prehistoric reptiles and mammals in Chased by Sea Monsters. Exploring the underwater world where he "encounters" amazing creatures, Nigel Marven presents a unique record of a lost world never revealed before now.

Customer Reviews:

So Realistic, It's Scary!.......2007-08-02

I bought this book for my teenage son who has autism. He asked for this book. It's great! It coinsides with a program with the same name that has been shown on Discovery Channel. The book is a perfect companion to the program. It has awesome descriptions and "photos" of the prehistoric animals. It clarifies when each animal lived, and what the world looked like at that time. The fact that Nigel Marvin "went back in time" to study these monsters was awesome! Anyone who loves prehistoric animals has to have this book in their collection!

Look's Good.......2007-01-10

I bought the book and it's on the shelf right now waiting to be read. I have already seen the program and it was excellent. I'm sure the book will be aswell. I bought the book because I saw the program and it made me want to buy the book. I at least recomend buying the film. My brother has read the book though and he said he really liked it. I think it would be a good idea to buy the book and see what it's like for yourself.

Chased By Sea Monsters!.......2006-07-06

Face-to-face with sharks that can bite whales in half? Swim with armor-plated fish so powerful that they can bite through chain mail? Dive into the midst of a feeding frenzy? Do all this and live to write about it?

This is the premise behind "Chased By Sea Monsters", the companion book to the Discovery Channel program. The series featured intrepid zoologist/time-traveler Nigel Marven swimming in the seven most deadly seas of the prehistoric age and encountering some of the most dangerous (and not-so-dangerous) sea monsters of those eras, such as the Jurassic and Devonian. Some of the creatures that Nigel encounters are the marine crocodile, the pack hunting mosasaur, the may-not-be extinct megalodon shark and the whale-eating prehistoric whale the basilosaurus.

The book is a word-for-word print version of the program though it also features a few more facts about some of the creatures. The book does not go into a lot of biological detail about the creatures but you do get a good feel for how they interacted and what they ate (or what ate them), and what climate conditions were like. The book does provide brief summaries of the creatures, giving the era they lived in, length, what they ate and the like.

If you would like to be "Chased By Sea Monsters" and get more of a feel for the marine reptiles of the dinosaur age, this is the book to have.

Sea Monsters.......2006-06-14

This is a great book to go with a great documentary. It talks of top seven predators that lived in the oceans of the past in seven different time periods, like the massive squid-like Cameroceras (which would have made modern squid squirm helplessly), the bone-crushing Dunkleosteus (which makes piranhas seem like minnows), the largest ichthyosaur ever -- Cymbospondylus (which luckily feeds mostly on fish), the biggest carnivore ever -- Liopleurodon (of which the only protection availiable is a chemical detterant, if humans were to venture into such waters), the pack-hunting Tylosaurus (which could have eaten a Tyrannosaurus), the most vicious whale ever -- Basilosaurus (compare to modern baleen whales) and the eighteen meter shark -- Charcharodon (which would make it's modern cousin the great white shark look like a mere goldfish). There is one flaw, however. The two authors of this book have varying tones of writing. One writes it in an encyclopaedic way, while the other writes as if it is a story. (Like the Walking With Dinosaurs and Walking With Beasts books). Both do have a sense of humor which shows in their infoboxes on how to survive in the waters of the time period in question, as well as the hazards there.

Ichthysoaurs, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, oh my!.......2006-01-14

Written as a companion to the BBC television documentary series, this beautiful book takes the reader on an illustrated journey thru the prehistoric oceans. The book highlights seven different time periods (in seven different chapters) in the Earth's past, and shows the sea creatures living at those times; emphasizing those with the biggest jaws and their respective prey.

In each chapter, the book examines the physiology, anatomy, habitat, and probably lifestyle of the top predators. Each chapter also shows what is happening on land at that same time, and consistently shows that the predators on land were really no match in terms of size or scariness with respect to their marine counterparts. Covered monsters include reptiles such as mosasaurs, aquatic carniverous birds such as hesperonis, sharks like megaladon, and mammals such as the king of whales; basilosaurus. Each chapter also shows how the earth's continents were positioned at that time, along with the state of the global climate.

The book is beautifully illustrated, with color pictures drawn to look like underwater photographs of the actual creatures as if they were still alive. The intro chapter also gives a timeline of life on the planet, and explains how life evolved from sea to land, and often times back to the sea again. Overall, a great book; though it is missing several things that prevent me from giving it 5 out of 5 stars. First, throughout the text various sea creatures are named without any accompanying figures. Second, the term "sea monsters" implies animals at the very top of the food pyramid. Unfortunately, this book fails to "flesh out" the rest of the food pyramid. Each chapter should have included one large illustration of a food pyramid, with illustrations and names of the various organims at each step in the pyramid. Third, outside of one chapter, the book emphasizes creatures living and hunting in the shallows, or the top layer of the ocean. It would be nice if the book also examined more creatures living closer to the ocean bottom, such as deep-sea fish. Last, there should be a concluding chapter to sum everything up. This chapter should also include a large picture of the modern Earth, and highlight where fossils of the different "sea monsters" have been found. Even with these drawbacks, the book is still wonderful, and is great reading for kids, teenagers and adults.

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