Ice Age Mammals of North America: A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre, Volumen1Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2002 - 226 páginas Illustrated descriptions of the animals form the heart of Ice Age Mammals of North America and explore why so many of these animals were extinct by the end of Pleistocene time. Annotation. This engaging introduction to ice age mammals for general readers and students with little scientific background describes the geologic events that led to the ice ages and looks at the possible causes for the mass extinctions of so many species. Side bars explore interesting topics like the enormous size of some Ice Age animals and the role of DNA analysis in the study of these beasts. B & w photos of bones and digs, and color illustrations of animals, are included, as well as a list of selected museum and fossil sites. |
Contenido
A Cast of Continents | 9 |
The Pleistocene Epoch | 21 |
Why the Ice Ages? | 49 |
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Ice Age Mammals of North America: A Guide to the Big, the Hairy ..., Volumen1 Ian M. Lange Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
Ice Age Mammals of North America: A Guide to the Big, the Hairy, and the Bizarre Ian M. Lange Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Africa Alaska American lion Antarctica Arctic armadillos Asia Atlantic Ocean beaver Beringia bison Bison Blancan bones California camels Canada capybara carbon 14 carnivores climate Clovis Columbian mammoth contains continental deposits dinosaurs Earth's elephant Equus Eurasia Europe feet Florida fossil genera genus giant short-faced bear glacial glaciers glyptodonts grasslands Harlan's ground sloth Hemisphere herbivores horns horses humans Ice Age Ice Age animals ice sheet inhabited interglacial Irvingtonian Irvingtonian Land Mammal Jefferson's kilograms kilometers Lake land bridge Land Mammal Age landmasses late Pleistocene lived llamas males mammoth Mammuthus meters million years ago modern moose mountain musk oxen North America northern Oligocene paleontologists peccary percent plants Pleis Pleistocene epoch Pliocene pounds pronghorn Rancho La Brea Rancholabrean Land Mammal remains researchers rhinos Roadside Geology saber-toothed cats scientists scimitar cat sea level skull South southern species steppe subfamily tapir teeth tocene tusks weigh western Wisconsinan woolly mammoth Yukon
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Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity Justina Ray,Kent H. Redford,Robert Steneck,Joel Berger Vista previa limitada - 2013 |