Mammoths: Giants of the Ice Age

by Errol Fuller

Book Overview

The mammoth, with its shaggy coat, enormous tusks, and ponderous presence, is one of the great icons of extinction. It is also one of the few prehistoric creatures that is known not only from a few scattered fossilized bones, but from specimens that have been preserved perfectly, with skin, flesh and hair. Complete mammoths lie frozen in the icy wastes of Siberia, and from time to time one is exposed as the temperature or conditions change. So while...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593730187
• ISBN13: 9781593730185
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Bunker Hill Publishing Co
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A Small Book, but a Good Introduction

This little book is a surprisingly complete introduction to Mammoths. It talks about the fossil finds, the things we have learned about them, where they lived, basically everything there is to know about mammoths. Although this book is probably aimed at a younger audience, it is surprisingly complete. Numerous pictures, particularily of the finds in Siberia, are included along with brief but informative text. Unfortunately I don't see the head and tusks of the Mammoth dug out of the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada and on display here in Winnemucca. Mammoths have gained a respect and recognition that very few extinct animals have, especially of mammals. Even their name has entered our vocabulary as a word for big. This is neither a complex nor difficult book, but is a good introduction.