Features several large land animals such as arsinoitherium, smilodon, and the wooly mammoth.
Almost all of these fascinating animals then disappeared over a relatively short part of geologic time called the Late Pleistocene. This book explores the vast array of creatures that once roamed what is now your back yard.
Once reviled, feared and slaughtered by government decree, the myth of the Tasmanian Tiger continues to grow. This book explores the tale of the animal which has become the centrepiece in an ecological tragedy.
"Describes the characteristics, food, habitat, behavior, and extinction of ground sloths"--