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"We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals...
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"From the author of Apocalyptic Planet, an unsparing, vivid, revelatory travelogue through prehistory that traces the arrival of the First People in North America twenty thousand years ago and the artifacts that enable us to imagine their lives and fates. Scientists squabble over the locations and dates for human arrival in the New World. The first explorers were few, encampments fleeting. At some point in time, between twenty and forty thousand years...
10) Ice age giants
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Introduces the animals of the Ice Ages, including the woolly mammoth, giant wombat, and cave bear; provides maps showing where fossils of each have been found; and compares the size of each to man.
12) Giant armadillo
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Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this prehistoric relative of modern-day armadillos.
14) The mammals
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The story of prehistoric mammals, where they came from, what the different kinds were like, and theories about their disappearance.
19) Irish elk
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Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this prehistoric relative of modern-day deer.
20) Cave bear
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Text and illustrations describe cave bears, including how they lived and how they became extinct.