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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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The extinction of dinosaurs some sixty-five million years ago is one of the greatest biological catastrophes in the history of our planet. Yet in recent years, paleontologists have turned up increasing evidence that ancestors of one group of dinosaurs still fly among us: birds. Join Cathy Forster, one of the few female paleontologists working today, on an expedition to Madagascar in search of clues to the mystery of bird evolution.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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It looks like a bear, but isnt́ one. It climbs trees as easily as a monkey -- but isnt́ a monkey, either. It has a belly pocket like a kangaroo, but whatś a kangaroo doing up a tree? Meet the amazing Matschieś tree kangaroo, who makes its home in the ancient trees of Papua New Guineaś cloud forest. And meet the amazing scientists who track these elusive animals.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Travel to the African bush with ... Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this ... addition to the Scientists in the Field series as they join the internationally acclaimed woman researcher conducting one of the longest and most important studies of African mammals in the history of science"--
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year: A “fascinating” photo-filled book on these amazing arachnids! (Booklist)
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...
Yellow blood? Skeletons on the outside? These attributes don’t belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earth’s biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. In this book you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (he’s never...