Publisher Description

Explore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators.

Join the hunt with Velociraptor, defend your prey with mighty Smilodon, see how you measure up to the biggest shark of all time and take to the skies with some of the world's most incredible birds of prey.

A stunning central gatefold opens to reveal a timeline of life on Earth and the size of these incredible hunters.

Author Biography

Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of over 150 books for children and adults. These include the Blue Peter Book Award-winningThe Colours of History,Eye Benders: The Science of Seeing and Believing, winner of the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize in 2014, andCool Technology, which won the School Library Association Information Book Award 2013. Clive lives in Manchester, UK.

WhenHoward Gray was younger, he was always content with a few sheets of paper and whatever else he could lay his hands upon to make his mark. Growing up, he was also captivated by animals and nature. Howard pursued Art throughout school but, after much deliberation, he decided to pursue a career in science, completing a BSc in Zoology and then a PhD in Arabian bottlenose dolphin genetics! Now a doctor in genetics, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator. Howard lives in Durham, UK.

Table of Contents

Features: Early predators on land, such as Dimetrodon and Dienonychus - riverbank hunters, such as Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus and Megapiranha - giant ground hunters - dromaeosaurids - giant prehistoric snakes - early mammal predators - South American predators of the past - Pleistocene predators - hunters of the sky - flying reptiles - prehistoric birds - how prey animals have evolved to cope with predators - ancient hunters of the seas - whales - sharks - today's top predators - felines - ocean hunters of today - insect hunters - birds of prey and snakes. Also includes a gatefold showing these creatures placed upon a timeline of the Earth and an index.

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Explore seas, swamps, deserts and mountains, from the earliest life on Earth to our present day, and get up close to our planet's all-time deadliest predators!

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