Prehistoric Sea Beasts

by Matthew Rake, Simon Mendez (Illustrator)

Overview

The ocean is filled with giant, strange, and scary creatures such as whales, octopuses, and sharks—but the prehistoric megalodon was powerful enough to crush a killer whale. Other sea beasts of the past could hold their own against even the most mysterious of modern sea creatures. Sea scorpions had claws the size of tennis rackets. Tanystropheus used its long neck to catch fish from land. And Leedsichthys had as many as 40,000 teeth! What would happen if these extinct beasts came to life? Imagine prehistoric sea beasts chasing dolphins, fighting crocodiles, and hunting humpback whales—and learn all about the prehistoric creatures of the deep!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512411584
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Series:	If Extinct Beasts Came to Life
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,091,820
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	1020L (what's this?)
Age Range:	9 - 11 Years

About the Author

Matthew Rake lives in London and has worked in publishing for more than twenty years. He has written on a wide variety of topics, including science, sports, and the arts.

Simon Mendez, award-winning illustrator, combines his love of nature and drawing by focusing his illustrations on scientific and natural subjects. He paints a wide variety of themes but mainly concentrates on portraits and animal subjects. He lives in the UK.

Table of Contents

The Big, the Bad, and the Ugly 6

Big Nipper: Sea Scorpion or Eurypterid 8

Tentacled Terror: Cameroceras 10

Part Beast, Part Battleship: Dunkleosteus 12

Stretch-necked Savage: Tanystropheus 14

Let's Get Funkei: Pliosaurus funkei 16

Sticking its Neck Out: Elasmosaurus 18

Giant Tooth: Megalodon 20

Big Mouth: Leedsichthys 22

A Whale of a Time: Livyatan 24

Super Snapper: Xiphactinus 26

Timeline 28

Uncovering the Past 30

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

"[An] easy-to-read but hard-to-put-down series. . . . Whether dinosaur fans or not, readers of all ages will enjoy this visually stunning, informative, and, at times, humorous look at prehistory—libraries won't want to miss out."—School Library Journal

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