Ice Age Giants of the South

by Judy Cutchins, Ginny Johnston

Overview

The bones of extinct giants such as mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats have been found across the southern United States. These fossils help scientists understand what life was like more than 10,000 years ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781561647934
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2015
Series:	Southern Fossil Discoveries
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Judy Cutchins is the author of numerous award-winning science books. In both 1991 and 2001, she was honored as Georgia Author of the Year in Juvenile and Young Adult Nonfiction. She has specialist degrees in elementary education and more than 25 years of experience as a writer and educator at Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Ginny Johnston is the author of numerous award-winning science books. In both 1991 and 2001, she was honored as Georgia Author of the Year in Juvenile and Young Adult Nonfiction. She has specialist degrees in elementary education and more than 25 years of experience as a writer and educator at Fernbank Science Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Editorial Reviews

In Ice Age Giants Of The South, Judy Cutchins and Ginny Johnston offer a superbly presented and illustrated survey of the fossil record of the large animals the lived during the Ice ages which began some 1.8 million years ago and ended about ten thousand years ago. From saber-toothed cats, dire wolves sand woolly mammoths, to mastodons, giant sloths and armadillos. Of special interest is the illustrated and informative sections on land bridges between continents, caves and sinkholes, ancient grasslands, the role of teeth in paleontological excavations, and what finally happened to those "giants of the ice age". The splendidly illustrated text is further enhanced for young readers with a glossary, a list of scientific names, and an index.

Recommended for middle school students.” — National Science Teachers Association

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