Animals of the Lost World

Today we know a lot about life on Earth millions of years ago: that long before humans appeared, it was inhabited by flying and swimming reptiles, dinosaurs and therapsids, that modern species evolved from old ones, that many ancient animals looked completely different from how they were previously imagined. But for us to know this, science has made a long and difficult journey from superstitions to hypotheses and evidence, through errors and delusions to the truth.
For thousands of years, scientists have been looking for answers to the question of who the fossilized bones and shells found in the ground, in the mountains and on the coast belong to, and have explained their nature by the existence of giants and monsters, witchcraft and a global flood. And when no one had any doubts that completely different animals had lived on Earth before - strange mammals and huge reptiles that later died out - paleontologists began to reconstruct their appearance, habits and habitat.
Sometimes new discoveries simply turned everything upside down: a spike on the nose became a finger of the forelimb, tentacles on the back - legs, and an egg thief - a caring hen. In this book, you will get acquainted with Hallucigenia, a creature without a tail and a head, with the walking fish Tiktaalik, with a huge plesiosaur similar to a sea dragon and many other incredible creatures, and most importantly, with the stars of dinomania T. rex and Diplodocus.

Recommended reader age: 6+

Author: Damien Laverdan, Helen Rajak
Artist: Helen Rajak
Translation: Yatsyk Svetlana
Editor: Litvina Alexandra, Stepanenko Ekaterina
Year of release: 2020
Publisher: On foot in history
Pages: 72
Dimensions: 317x257x11 mm
Cover type: hardcover
ISBN: 978-5-906994-78-3