Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Creatures Atlas: The Prehistoric World as You’ve Never Seen It Before

by DK

Length: 160 pages
Edition: U
Language: English
Publisher: DK CHILDREN
Publication Date: 2021-10-19
ISBN-10: 0744035473
ISBN-13: 9780744035476
Sales Rank: #38501 (See Top 100 Books)

Who’s ready for a round-the-world trip of epic dinosaur proportions? Pack your bags, and let’s go!

On this adventure, you’ll travel back in time to see more than 40 dinosaurs come to life! The geography book for kids explores each continent, revealing fossil sites and stories on every map.

A unique children’s atlas that brings weird and wonderful prehistoric animals into your living room! It includes:

Each chapter explores a continent, showing where dinosaurs appeared at a given time.
Connects each dinosaur to a period — Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous.
Specially commissioned maps and 3D locator globes link the prehistoric world to the present-day.
Stunning double-page spreads show dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in dynamic scenes.
Perfect for children ages 9 and up who want to know more about dinosaurs, ice age animals and other prehistoric creatures.
A face-to-face experience with fearsome dinosaurs!

Inside the pages of this children’s educational book, you’ll get to stare down a T-Rex in North America, watch out for Velociraptors’ slashing claws in the Gobi Desert and trek across the Siberian tundra! You’ll also discover the answers to fascinating questions about dinosaurs. Which plant-eater weighed as much as five elephants? Where was mighty Tyrannosaurus the ultimate hunter?

Using specially commissioned maps, the dinosaur atlas for kids reveal the prehistoric world as never before! A modern 3D globe next to each map helps you understand the arrangement of the continents over time and why paleontologists find fossils where they do. The fully updated edition includes the most up-to-date theories and discoveries of dinosaur science, alongside stunning CGI illustrations and maps of all the major fossil sites around the world.

Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Creatures Atlas is so much more than just a book filled with cool maps, stats and fun facts for kids, it’s also a vital source of learning — perfect for children to dip into for school projects! Look out for more titles in this series from DK. Discover planet Earth as you’ve never seen it before in What’s Where on Earth?

CONTENTS
Rise of the dinosaurs
	Timeline of Earth
	Early life
	Triassic world
	Jurassic world
	Cretaceous world
	What is a dinosaur?
North America
	Coelophysis
	Stegosaurus
	Three against one
	Allosaurus
	Ceratosaurus
	Diplodocus
	Corythosaurus
	Albertosaurus
	Ankylosaurus
	Tyrannosaurus
	Daylight attack
	Triceratops
	Pachycephalosaurus
	Fossil finds
South America
	Herrerasaurus
	Chilesaurus
	Giganotosaurus
	Fighting it out
	Argentinosaurus
	Carnotaurus
	Fossil finds
Europe
	Plateosaurus
	Muddy swamps
	Ophthalmosaurus
	Archaeopteryx
	Iguanodon
	Baryonyx
	Polacanthus
	Pelecanimimus
	Hatzegopteryx
	Today’s catch
	Fossil finds
Africa
	Mesosaurus
	Lystrosaurus
	Giraffatitan
	Spinosaurus
	A fish dinner
	Fossil finds
Asia
	Shunosaurus
	Psittacosaurus
	Yutyrannus
	Surprise attack
	Microraptor
	Velociraptor
	Fossil finds
Australia and Antarctica
	Cryolophosaurus
	A welcome discovery
	Muttaburrasaurus
	Leaellynasaura
	Fossil finds
After the dinosaurs
	Titanoboa
	Gastornis
	Basilosaurus
	Smilodon
	Woolly mammoth
	Hunting in the grasslands
	Varanus priscus
Reference
	Fossilization
	Early fossils and hunters
	Mass extinctions
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments