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The Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life

by Tim Haines

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Text and digitally-created illustrations cover more than one hundred of the earliest beasts with profiles on their physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and distribution across prehistoric Earth.

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Original publication date: 2005

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Genres: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 560 — Natural sciences & mathematics Fossils & Dinosaurs Paleontology
LCC: QE763 .H35 — Science Geology Geology Paleozoology
BISAC: NAT NATURE Animals Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures
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Published: 2005
Genres: Nonfiction, Science & Nature, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 560
LCC: QE763 .H35

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