Why Dinosaurs Matter

7 best books like Why Dinosaurs Matter (Kenneth Lacovara): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants, Cyril and Pat, Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Author	Stephen Brusatte
ISBN	0062490451

Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...

End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals

Author	Ross D.E. MacPhee
ISBN	0393249298

Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gorilla-sized lemurs, 500-pound birds, and crocodiles that weighed a ton or more—roamed the earth. These great beasts, or “megafauna,” lived on every habitable continent and on many islands....

Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

Author	Danna Staaf
ISBN	1611689236

Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth’s first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act...

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0307378438

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...

Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants

Author

Monica Gagliano

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.

In this "phytobiography"--a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant--research scientist, Monica Gagliano, reveals the dynamic...

Cyril and Pat

Author	Emily Gravett
ISBN	1509857273

Cyril is the only squirrel in Lake Park, and he's very lonely. Until one day he meets Pat – Pat the big, grey . . . other squirrel. Cyril and Pat have lots of adventures and fun together and Cyril is so pleased he's made a friend. But everyone is adamant that Cyril and Pat simply cannot be friends, and they...

Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten

Author

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Bli med inn i insektenes forunderlige verden! For hvert menneske som lever på jorden, finnes det 200 millioner insekter. Insektene er overalt - i skogen og i enga, i bekken og i parken. De lever i seks tusen meters høyde, i de dypeste grotter, i døpefonter, inne i datamaskiner og i hvalrossens nesebor....