Giant Creatures in Our World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Giant Creatures in Our World write by Camille D.G. Mustachio. This book was released on 2017-10-13. Giant Creatures in Our World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dismissed as camp by critics but revered by fans, the kaiju or "strange creature" film has become an iconic element of both Japanese and American pop culture. From homage to parody to advertising, references to Godzilla--and to a lesser extent Gamera, Rodan, Ultraman and others--abound in entertainment media. Godzilla in particular is so ubiquitous, his name is synonymous with immensity and destruction. In this collection of new essays, contributors examine kaiju representations in a range of contexts and attempt to define this at times ambiguous genre.
Last of the Giants
Last of the Giants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last of the Giants write by Jeff Campbell. This book was released on 2019-08-01. Last of the Giants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the black rhino, the dodo, giant tortoises, and the great auk—have vanished since our world became truly global. Last of the Giants chronicles those giant animals and apex predators pushed to extinction in the modern era. The book also highlights those giant species that remain—even though many barely survive, living in such low numbers that they are on the brink of leaving this world within the next few decades. However, there is hope, for many endangered species can still be saved. As it profiles each extinct and endangered animal, Last of the Giants focuses on the conservation efforts that are trying to preserve the world's remaining charismatic species before they are lost forever.
The Big Book of Giant Animals, the Little Book of Tiny Animals
The Big Book of Giant Animals, the Little Book of Tiny Animals - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Book of Giant Animals, the Little Book of Tiny Animals write by Cristina Banfi. This book was released on 2018-05-24. The Big Book of Giant Animals, the Little Book of Tiny Animals available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents the largest and smallest creatures of the animal kingdom, two books linked as to become a single volume.
Giants of the Lost World
Giants of the Lost World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Giants of the Lost World write by Donald R. Prothero. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Giants of the Lost World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than a hundred years ago, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a novel called The Lost World with the exciting premise that dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts still ruled in South America. Little did Conan Doyle know, there were terrifying monsters in South America--they just happened to be extinct. In fact, South America has an incredible history as a land where many strange creatures evolved and died out. In his book Giants of the Lost World: Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Monsters of South America, Donald R. Prothero uncovers the real science and history behind this fascinating story. The largest animal ever discovered was the huge sauropod dinosaur Argentinosaurus, which was about 130 feet long and weighed up to 100 tons. The carnivorous predator Giganotosaurus weighed in at more than 8 tons and measured more than 47 feet long, dwarfing the T. rex in comparison. Gigantic anacondas broke reptile records; possums evolved into huge saber-toothed predators; and ground sloths grew larger than elephants in this strange, unknown land. Prothero presents the scientific details about each of these prehistoric beasts, provides a picture of the ancient landscapes they once roamed, and includes the stories of the individuals who first discovered their fossils for a captivating account of a lost world that is stranger than fiction.
Nature's Giants
Nature's Giants - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Giants write by Graeme D. Ruxton. This book was released on 2019. Nature's Giants available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A beautifully illustrated exploration of the science behind the awe-inspiring giants of past and present The colossal plants and animals of our world--dinosaurs, whales, and even trees--are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a human being would step over without thinking is an entire world to thousands of microscopic rotifers. But why are creatures the size that they are? Why aren't bugs the size of elephants, or whales the size of goldfish? In this lavishly illustrated new book, biologist Graeme Ruxton explains how and why nature's giants came to be so big--for example, how decreased oxygen levels limited the size of insects and how island isolation allowed small-bodied animals to evolve larger body sizes. Through a diverse array of examples, from huge butterflies to giant squid, Ruxton explores the physics, biology, and evolutionary drivers behind organism size, showing what it's like to live large.
