Welcome to the prehistoric world --A journey through time --The b ig five extinctions -- The beginning -- Prehistoric goo and the Mars rover -- The kids of Charnwood Forest -- Life begins to get complicated -- An explosion of life -- The amazing discoveries of Burgess Shale -- The king of the trilobites -- Secrets of the fossil -- The age of armored fish -- The walking fish -- Meet the giant bugs -- The mystery of the buzzsaw shark -- The family in the burrow -- The age of Reptiles -- The supercontinent of Pangaea -- The Triassic footprints -- What exactly is a dinosaur? -- The rancher's delight -- Rulers of the Triassic -- The baby-eaters -- The first giants -- Weird life of the Triassic -- The 3D pterosaur -- The frozen reptile -- Mary Anning: fossil hunter -- The megaraft -- The missing bones -- Dino death trap -- Flight, fuzz, and feathers -- The sad story of Big Al -- The bone wars -- A tale in two parts -- The final supper -- The secrets of the mine -- The spiny sauropod -- The beasts of prehistoric China -- The colorful Psittacosaurus -- The wonders of Las Hoyas -- The block of raptors --The wonders of Las Hoyas -- The block of raptors -- Shape-shifting dinosaurs -- The seafaring ankylosaur -- Creatures of the shallow sea -- Searching for Spinosaurus --Fight to the death -- Egg mountain -- Musical monsters --Meeet the frilly dinosaurs -- Triceratops vs. Torosaurus -- Mystery of the stolen fossils -- Clash of the boneheads -- The giant pterosaurs -- King of the tyrant lizards -- T. Rex grows up -- The crater of doom - The recent pass -- The age of mammals -- The monster snake -- The evil winds -- The creatures of Turtle cove -- The giant rhino --Meet the mega shark -- Treasures from the dump -- The world turns to ash -- The whole graveyard -- The people in the trees -- The dawn of humans -- The pit of despair -- Giants of the Ice Age -- The last mammoths -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
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