This field guide highlights 100 mammals found throughout the world. Readers will gain a greater understanding about the behaviors and appearance of each mammal and will be able to identify these creatures after seeing the vivid photographs and useful labels within the book. Features include a helpful introduction to the topic, a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.

In If I Wandered with a Woolly Mammoth, a young boy imagines what it would be like to go back in time and travel with a herd of woolly mammoths during the last Ice Age, before they went extinct. Readers will learn how woolly mammoths lived and traveled in the snow and survived saber-toothed cat attacks in a fun, fictional format. Action-packed illustrations and carefully leveled text engage young readers in a supportive educational fiction reading...

"A comprehensive and informative review of mammalian biology and conservation in Ohio with illustrative accounts of fifty-five species, including updated research and high-quality photographs, maps, and original drawings"-- Provided by publisher.

Presents an overview of mammals, including their history, various kinds, physical characteristics, behavior, and endangered and extinct species.

"Reference guide to mammals, for children"-- Provided by publisher.

Was Darwin wrong when he traced our origins to Africa? The Real Planet of the Apes makes the explosive claim that it was in Europe, not Africa, where apes evolved the most important hallmarks of our human lineage--such as bipedalism, dexterous hands, and larger brains. In this compelling and accessible book, David Begun, one of the world's leading paleoanthropologists, transports readers to an epoch in the remote past when the Earth was home to many...

"In this book, early fluent readers will learn all about the world's smallest mammals, their characteristics and behaviors, and how they survive in the wild. Vivid, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they learn about tiny mammals and their effect on the world around them. A Take a Look! infographic compares body sizes of various bat species, fact boxes give size statistics, sidebars present interesting, supplementary...