Book Description
Discover the amazing world of snakes, crocodiles, lizards, and turtles, with over 700 photographs and illustrations.
Author : Barbara Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reptiles
ISBN : 9781844774463
Discover the amazing world of snakes, crocodiles, lizards, and turtles, with over 700 photographs and illustrations.
Author : Hannah Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Reptiles
ISBN : 9781402752995
Explore the lives of reptiles through text and life-size illustrations on fold-out pages.
Author : Jim Arnosky
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781402739866
Explains how to identify venomous snakes and their harmless cousins, where to find a 200-pound lizard, how to avoid becoming an alligator's lunch and features snake fangs, alligator claws, and turtle shells--all life-size!
Author : J. Sean Doody
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1421440679
Revealing the secrets of reptilian social relationships through original quantitative research, field studies, laboratory experiments, and careful analysis of the literature, The Secret Social Lives of Reptiles elevates these fascinating animals to key players in the science of behavioral ecology.
Author : Laura Purdie Salas
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category : Reptiles
ISBN : 1404855262
Introduces the characteristics and types of reptiles.
Author : Mark O'Shea
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226832864
Updated to reflect the most recent species classifications, a second edition of the beautifully illustrated and beloved guide to 600 members of the suborder Serpentes. For millennia, humans have regarded snakes with an exceptional combination of fascination and revulsion. Some people recoil in fear at the very suggestion of these creatures, while others happily keep them as pets. Snakes can convey both beauty and menace in a single tongue flick, and so these creatures have held a special place in our cultures. Yet, for as many meanings as we attribute to snakes—from fertility and birth to sin and death—the real-life species represent an even wider array of wonders. Now in a new edition, reflecting the most recent species classifications, The Book of Snakes presents 600 species of snakes from around the world, covering roughly one in seven of all snake species. It will bring greater understanding of a group of reptiles that have existed for more than 160 million years and that now inhabit every continent except Antarctica, as well as two of the great oceans. This volume pairs spectacular photos with easy-to-digest text. It is the first book on these creatures that combines a broad, worldwide sample with full-color, life-size accounts. Entries include close-ups of the snake’s head and a section of the snake at actual size. The detailed images allow readers to examine the intricate scale patterns and rainbow of colors as well as special features like a cobra’s hood or a rattlesnake’s rattle. The text is written for laypeople and includes a glossary of frequently used terms. Herpetologists and herpetoculturists alike will delight in this collection, and even those with a more cautious stance on snakes will find themselves drawn in by the wild diversity of the suborder Serpentes.
Author : Ralph E. Molnar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780253343741
What caused their extinction remains a mystery, and one that makes an intriguing conclusion to this portrait of a true dragon of the past.
Author : Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,86 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0253012716
This overview of dinosaur discoveries in Mexico synthesizes current information about the geography and environment of the region during the Mesozoic when it was the western margin of the ancient continent of Pangea. The book summarizes research on various groups, including turtles, lepidosauromorphs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and last but not least, dinosaurs. In addition, chapters focus on trackways and other trace fossils and on K/P boundary (the Chicxulub crater, beneath the Gulf of Mexico, has been hypothesized as the site of the boloid impact that killed off the dinosaurs). Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico is an up-to-date, informative volume on an area that has not been comprehensively described until now.
Author : Mike G. Peters
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : M.G. Peters
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 32,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Amphibians
ISBN :
Author : Steve Jenkins
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2005-09-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547348940
What is it like to come face-to-face with the ten-foot-tall terror bird? Or stare into the mouth of the largest meat eater ever to walk the earth? Can you imagine a millipede that is more than six feet long, or a dinosaur smaller than a chicken? In this “actual size” look at the prehistoric world, which includes two dramatic gatefolds, you’ll meet these awe-inspiring creatures, as well as many others.