What did a penguin's great, great, great, great, GREAT grandparent look like? Find out with incredible POP-UP pages!
Palaeontologist Dr Dean Lomax takes a closer look at seven wild animals and, using fossil clues, reveals who their prehistoric relatives were.
From a mighty whale to a tiny dragonfly, find out about the wild creatures and their animal families today. Then open the fold-out pages to reveal awesome pop-ups, bringing you face-to-face with their long-extinct ancestors. Go head-to-head with the woolly mammoth, meet the mega shark Megalodon and get to know the prehistoric penguin named Icadyptes. Discover how these animals lived long ago, how they are different to their modern relatives - and how they are the same.
Full of fascinating facts, bright illustrations and real fossil finds, meet PREHISTORIC BEASTS of the past.
Prehistoric Pets (2020) was shortlisted for ASE Book of the Year 2021.Features 7 wild animals and their fascinating animal ancestorsCONTENTS: Dragonfly / Meganeura 305-299 mya (before dinosaurs!); Great White Shark / Megolodon 16-3.6 mya ago; African elephant / Woolly Mammoth 400,000-4,000 ya; American Alligator / Deinosuchus 82-75 mya; Emperor penguin / Icadytes 36 mya; Sloth / Megatherium 100,000-10,000 ya; Blue whale / Pakicetus 50-45 myaDean is a palaeontologist, as well as a science communicator, author of Dinosaurs of the British Isles and expert presenter on ITV's Dinosaur Britain. He has discovered 6 new species, including a Velociraptor-like dinosaur.Fold-out pages reveal pop-up prehistoric animals that 'jump' out of the pageBright and lively artwork from illustrator Mike LoveCover: matt lam + spot UV 
