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Author
Series
Organisms and environments volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As recently as 11,000 years ago, "near time" to geologists, mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age. Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight...
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of Lyuba, a perfectly preserved baby mammoth discovered along a river in Siberia 31,000 years after her birth, and offers a glimpse into her prehistoric world.
Author
Series
Science volume no. 15
Publisher
Los Angeles County Museum
Pub. Date
1956
Edition
6th ed.
Physical Desc
83 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sir David Attenborough drops in for tea at the modest suburban home of Neville and Sally Hollingworth, both amateur fossil hunters in southern England. He's there to look at some of the unusual objects that decorate their living room, including giant tusks and massive molars that belonged to extinct mammoths and a hand-axe shaped by Neanderthals.
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