Books in Pocket Facts series

Includes 121 animals around the world that are extinct or threatened. Each species appears in a full-color double-page spread that shows its appearance in the wild, location, size, diet, breeding, why each is threatened (especially the dangers caused by specific human activities), and current status of efforts to conserve. Important creatures covered include mammals, from the Amazon River Dolphin and Giant Panda to tigers, leopards, and chimpanzees.

More than 120 major dinosaur species and other prehistoric animals appear in double-page spreads that display colorful and accurate drawings in alphabetical sequence of scientific names, from Alamosaurus to Zephyrosaurus. Fact-filled charts cover each Latin term and what it means, and descriptions of size and shape, means of movement, as well as ways of obtaining food—and ways to avoid becoming another creature’s meal.