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Author
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Description
Have you seen a dodo bird recently? Do you have mastodons playing in your back yard? Not likely-- these species are extinct! In Earth's 4.5 billion-year history, more than 5 billion species have gone extinct, some of them at the same time. In EXTINCTION: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS, MASTODONS, AND DODO BIRDS? kids ages 9 to 12 learn about the detective work scientists perform to find out why mass extinctions happen...Try these hands-on STEM projects!...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Formats
Description
Provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first time, reconstruct the hell on earth that unfolded in the minutes, hours, and months after the impact.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
76 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes--and hit our planet in them, too. But what happens if a catastrophically large one approaches earth? By looking on the ground at historical asteroid craters and present-day falls, and up into space for the big ones yet to come, a wide variety of scientists are trying to figure out how to track asteroids--and how to avoid devastating impacts in the future."--
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Description
For hundreds of thousands of years Great Auks thrived in the icy seas of the North Atlantic, bobbing on the waves, diving for fish and struggling up onto rocky shores to mate and hatch their fluffy chicks. But by 1844, not a single one of these magnificent birds was alive. Award-winning author and illustrator Jan Thornhill tells the tragic story of these birds that "weighed as much as a sack of potatoes and stood as tall as a preteen's waist." Their...
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
7) End Times
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
10 CDs (12 1/2 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In End Times, Walsh examines threats that emerge from nature and those of our own making: asteroids, supervolcanoes, nuclear war, climate change, disease pandemics, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial intelligence. Walsh details the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes, the impact on our lives were they to happen, and the best strategies for saving ourselves, all pulled from his rigorous and deeply thoughtful...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Packed with ingenious scientific work and spectacular fossils, Nova's Ice Age Death Trap reveals intimate secrets of the life and death of North America's most exotic and extreme creatures: mastodons, saber tooth cats and camels, giant bison with six-foot horns, and ground sloths as big as elephants. Most tantalizing of all, the excavation, organized by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, unearths startling and controversial evidence of what...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
258 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The acclaimed naturalist celebrates his native Australia and one of its most extraordinary creatures as he examines how the kangaroo both shapes and is shaped by its environment, looks at Australia's natural history, and traces the evolution of the kangaroo.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Most days, Sarya doesn't feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she's got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds of alien species roaming the corridors of Watertower Station. Or making sure her adoptive mother doesn't casually eviscerate one of their neighbors. Again. And most days, she can almost accept that she'll never know the truth--that she'll never know why humanity was deemed too dangerous...
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