Prehistoric life
Subtitle: [the definitive visual history of life on earth]
By: [authors, Douglas Palmer ... et al. ; consultants, Simon Lamb ... et al. ; senior editors, Angeles Gavira Guerrero, Peter Frances ; project editors, Cressida Malins ... et al. ; editors, Jamie Ambrose ... et al.].
Contributors: DK Publishing, Inc
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: DK Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780756655730
Subjects: Origin; Fossils; Fossil hominids; Paleobiology; Fossil Plants; Fossil Animals; Pictorial works
Other titles: DK prehistoric life; Dorling Kindersley prehistoric life
Description: With an extensive catalog at its heart, "Prehistoric Life" profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail;   features breathtaking, state-of-the-art images; explores the concept of geological time; and explains the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.
Notes: At head of title: DK.

Subtitle from cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Young earth. Exploring earth's past ; The origin of the earth ; The first 500 million years ; Plate tectonics ; Changing climates ; Life and evolution ; Classification ; Mass extinctions ; Types of fossils ; Information in the fossil record ; Key fossil sites ; The geological timescale; title: Life on earth. Archean ; Proterozoic ; Cambrian ; Ordovician ; Silurian ; Devonian ;  Carboniferous ; Permian ; Triassic ; Jurassic ; Cretaceous ; Paleogene ; Neogene ; Quaternary; title: The rise of the humans. Human relatives ; Human ancestors ; Origins of modern humans ; Out of Africa ; European hunter gatherers ; Paleolithic cave art ; After the ice.