Author: Carol Lindeen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781429601160
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This monster's name says it all. For years, fast and fierce terror birds ruled South America. Find out more about the bird that swallowed small animals in one gulp!
Terror Bird
Author: Carol Lindeen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781429601160
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This monster's name says it all. For years, fast and fierce terror birds ruled South America. Find out more about the bird that swallowed small animals in one gulp!
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781429601160
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This monster's name says it all. For years, fast and fierce terror birds ruled South America. Find out more about the bird that swallowed small animals in one gulp!
Terror Birds
Author: Jason Rubis
Publisher: Severed Press
ISBN: 9781925840025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When college student Alex Drummond takes a summer job as research assistant to eccentric cryptozoologist Thaddeus Bruckner, he's not sure what to expect. He certainly doesn't foresee babysitting the egg of a Titanis walleri, the massive avian predator that once ruled southern Texas. But after Dr. Bruckner's experiments in "wormhole dilation" work a little too well, that's exactly the role he's stuck with. And when the newly-hatched Titanis is abducted, things get even wilder, as its vengeful parents tear through a wormhole to wreak havoc in the Lone Star State. Bruckner and Alex are forced to play monster wranglers in a desperate effort to get the rampaging Terror Birds back to the Pliocene and avert catastrophe!
Publisher: Severed Press
ISBN: 9781925840025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
When college student Alex Drummond takes a summer job as research assistant to eccentric cryptozoologist Thaddeus Bruckner, he's not sure what to expect. He certainly doesn't foresee babysitting the egg of a Titanis walleri, the massive avian predator that once ruled southern Texas. But after Dr. Bruckner's experiments in "wormhole dilation" work a little too well, that's exactly the role he's stuck with. And when the newly-hatched Titanis is abducted, things get even wilder, as its vengeful parents tear through a wormhole to wreak havoc in the Lone Star State. Bruckner and Alex are forced to play monster wranglers in a desperate effort to get the rampaging Terror Birds back to the Pliocene and avert catastrophe!
The Terror-bird Trap
Author: Stephen Cole
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099487985
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
On the planet Atlantos, two dino-tribes are on the verge of war! Hurrying to save the day, the astrosaurs find monster-sized birds on the schene -- but are they there to help or to make things worse? Teggs must learn the truth before a terrible trap closes around them all ...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0099487985
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
On the planet Atlantos, two dino-tribes are on the verge of war! Hurrying to save the day, the astrosaurs find monster-sized birds on the schene -- but are they there to help or to make things worse? Teggs must learn the truth before a terrible trap closes around them all ...
Palaeobiology of Giant Flightless Birds
Author: Delphine Angst
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0081011431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups of giant flightless birds: Dinornithiformes, Aepyornithiformes, Dromornithidae, Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae, Gastornithidae and Gargantuavis. The first chapter presents the global diversity of these birds and reviews the tools and methods used to study their paleobiology. Chapters 2 to 8 are each dedicated to one of the seven groups of extinct birds. Finally, a conclusion offers a global synthesis of the information presented in the book in an attempt to define a common evolutionary model. - Focuses on the giant flightless birds that evolved independently in different parts of the world since the Cretaceous period - Covers a number of different families with different evolutionary histories, providing a source of interesting comparisons - Provides emphasis on the palaeobiology of these birds, including their evolution, adaptations, mode of life, ecology and extinction
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0081011431
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The fossil record of giant flightless birds extends back to the Late Cretaceous, more than 70 million years ago, but our understanding of these extinct birds is still incomplete. This is partly because the number of specimens available is sometimes limited, but also because widely different approaches have been used to study them, with sometimes contradictory results. This book summarizes the current knowledge of the paleobiology of seven groups of giant flightless birds: Dinornithiformes, Aepyornithiformes, Dromornithidae, Phorusrhacidae, Brontornithidae, Gastornithidae and Gargantuavis. The first chapter presents the global diversity of these birds and reviews the tools and methods used to study their paleobiology. Chapters 2 to 8 are each dedicated to one of the seven groups of extinct birds. Finally, a conclusion offers a global synthesis of the information presented in the book in an attempt to define a common evolutionary model. - Focuses on the giant flightless birds that evolved independently in different parts of the world since the Cretaceous period - Covers a number of different families with different evolutionary histories, providing a source of interesting comparisons - Provides emphasis on the palaeobiology of these birds, including their evolution, adaptations, mode of life, ecology and extinction
Horvos the Horror Bird
Author: Adam Blade
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 1408328666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A new terror is in store for Max and Lia as they hunt for the third precious element that could save them. Horvos the Horror Bird is here, with flamethrowers on its wings! The third thrilling book in Sea Quest Series 4: The Lost Lagoon. Don't miss the rest of the series: Rekkar the Screeching Orca, Tragg the Ice Bear and Gubbix the Poison Fish!
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 1408328666
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
A new terror is in store for Max and Lia as they hunt for the third precious element that could save them. Horvos the Horror Bird is here, with flamethrowers on its wings! The third thrilling book in Sea Quest Series 4: The Lost Lagoon. Don't miss the rest of the series: Rekkar the Screeching Orca, Tragg the Ice Bear and Gubbix the Poison Fish!
Meido, the Bird Who Was Afraid to Fly
Author: Jacob Pearce-Dietrich
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480884111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Meido is a bluebird who lives in a park downtown, up high in an awesome tree. But something makes him different from many other birds: he’s afraid to fly! Instead, Meido climbs up using his talons. One beautiful morning, Meido and his best feathered friend, Flier, are going around the park and taking care of official bird business. They go to the mulberry bush for breakfast and pay a visit to an unlucky person’s white car. Then the Tuesday Terror, Jaws the Chihuahua, arrives, and he’s out to get revenge on Meido and Flier for a trick they played on him before. But when their escape puts Flier and Jaws in danger, Meido knows he is the only one who can save the day. He’ll have to overcome his fear and finally start flying. In this children’s tale, a mischievous bird gets his friends in trouble and must conquer his fear of flying in order to rescue them
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480884111
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Meido is a bluebird who lives in a park downtown, up high in an awesome tree. But something makes him different from many other birds: he’s afraid to fly! Instead, Meido climbs up using his talons. One beautiful morning, Meido and his best feathered friend, Flier, are going around the park and taking care of official bird business. They go to the mulberry bush for breakfast and pay a visit to an unlucky person’s white car. Then the Tuesday Terror, Jaws the Chihuahua, arrives, and he’s out to get revenge on Meido and Flier for a trick they played on him before. But when their escape puts Flier and Jaws in danger, Meido knows he is the only one who can save the day. He’ll have to overcome his fear and finally start flying. In this children’s tale, a mischievous bird gets his friends in trouble and must conquer his fear of flying in order to rescue them
Dinosaur Enlightenment
Author: Duane Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
For several decades a glut of new information has created a golden era in dinosaur studies. While the scientific methodology underpinning this sustained revolution has been robust, myopic tendencies have created entrenched gaps in our idea making and narrative creation. This book is a bold attempt to fill in some of these narrative blank spots, often times in strange, unexpected, and utilitarian ways. Nash offers a customized "bounded speculation" approach to his idea making, resulting in a breadth of new thought for dinosaurs including their anatomy, physiology, ecology, diet, biting technique, soft tissue and reproductive strategies. Not since Robert Bakker's Dinosaur Heresies has a dinosaur book offered such a bold, compelling, vast and visceral shotgun blast to not only dinosaur establishment, but academia and the Neo-liberal culture underpinning. Nash seamlessly blends the kaiju/archetypal sensibility of dinosaurs with their biological and ecological reality but suggests that this blending is not only unavoidable but ultimately useful. Dinosaur Enlightenment is a book that can be seen on many levels and in many directions all at once. And in era of ecological, environmental, social, and political disruption Dinosaur Enlightenment offers the hint of an unexpected, but strangely familiar, path forward.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
For several decades a glut of new information has created a golden era in dinosaur studies. While the scientific methodology underpinning this sustained revolution has been robust, myopic tendencies have created entrenched gaps in our idea making and narrative creation. This book is a bold attempt to fill in some of these narrative blank spots, often times in strange, unexpected, and utilitarian ways. Nash offers a customized "bounded speculation" approach to his idea making, resulting in a breadth of new thought for dinosaurs including their anatomy, physiology, ecology, diet, biting technique, soft tissue and reproductive strategies. Not since Robert Bakker's Dinosaur Heresies has a dinosaur book offered such a bold, compelling, vast and visceral shotgun blast to not only dinosaur establishment, but academia and the Neo-liberal culture underpinning. Nash seamlessly blends the kaiju/archetypal sensibility of dinosaurs with their biological and ecological reality but suggests that this blending is not only unavoidable but ultimately useful. Dinosaur Enlightenment is a book that can be seen on many levels and in many directions all at once. And in era of ecological, environmental, social, and political disruption Dinosaur Enlightenment offers the hint of an unexpected, but strangely familiar, path forward.
The Seas of Doom
Author: Steve Cole
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689878435
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Captian Teggs, an astronaut dinosaur, and his crew on the DSS Sauropod travel to the depths of the seas of the planet Aqua Minor to find what has been destroying all the submarines and fish factories.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689878435
Category : Astronauts
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Captian Teggs, an astronaut dinosaur, and his crew on the DSS Sauropod travel to the depths of the seas of the planet Aqua Minor to find what has been destroying all the submarines and fish factories.
The White River Badlands
Author: Rachel C. Benton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253016088
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253016088
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This guide to the South Dakota region that houses the world’s richest fossil beds does “an excellent job of presenting the current state of knowledge” (Choice). The forbidding Big Badlands in Western South Dakota contain the richest fossil beds in the world. Even today these rocks continue to yield new specimens brought to light by snowmelt and rain washing away soft rock deposited on a floodplain long ago. The quality and quantity of the fossils are superb: most of the species to be found there are known from hundreds of specimens. The fossils in the White River Group (and similar deposits in the American west) preserve the entire late Eocene through the middle Oligocene, roughly 35-30 million years ago and more than thirty million years after non-avian dinosaurs became extinct. The fossils provide a detailed record of a period of abrupt global cooling and what happened to creatures who lived through it. This book is a comprehensive reference to the sediments and fossils of the Big Badlands, and also touches on National Park Service management policies that help protect such significant fossils. Includes photos and illustrations “A worthy successor to the work of O’Harra.” —Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
All the Birds, Singing
Author: Evie Wyld
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307907775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307907775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
From one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, a stunningly insightful, emotionally powerful new novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past: a story of loneliness and survival, guilt and loss, and the power of forgiveness. Jake Whyte is living on her own in an old farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of ceaseless rain and battering wind. Her disobedient collie, Dog, and a flock of sheep are her sole companions, which is how she wants it to be. But every few nights something—or someone—picks off one of the sheep and sounds a new deep pulse of terror. There are foxes in the woods, a strange boy and a strange man, and rumors of an obscure, formidable beast. And there is also Jake’s past, hidden thousands of miles away and years ago, held in the silences about her family and the scars that stripe her back—a past that threatens to break into the present. With exceptional artistry and empathy, All the Birds, Singing reveals an isolated life in all its struggles and stubborn hopes, unexpected beauty, and hard-won redemption. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.