Description
Book SynopsisBe astounded by the incredible plant life that lived on Earth millions of years ago!
Hundreds of millions of years before humans evolved, our planet was already teeming with life. In prehistoric oceans, stony deserts, warm swamps and vast grasslands, there lived an incredible variety of plants and animals.
The variety of plant life on our prehistoric planet was staggering. Evolving from the simplest single-celled life-forms, Earth bloomed with colourful flowers, tiny plants, massive trees and bizarre meat-eating plants. Discover how the warm, wet climate provided the perfect environment for plant life to explode and the variety of ways in which plants were able to reproduce.
Children will pour over the incredibly detailed illustrations and timeline, and be absorbed by the wealth of information.
This stunningly illustrated series looks at life in the prehistoric era, focusing not just on dinosaurs, but looking at the world as a whole. The prehistor
Table of Contents
- 1: Green planet
- 1: From water to land
- 1: Cooksonia
- 1: Prototaxites
- 1: Asteroxylon
- 1: Metzgeriothallus
- 1: Wattieza
- 1: Arucaria
- 1: Bucklandia
- 1: Montsechia
- 1: Protea
- 1: Roridula
- 1: Timeline
- 1: Glossary
- 1: Further information
- 1: Index
