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Focusing on over 60 fascinating extinct animals, the book delves into their histories, habitats, and the reasons behind their extinction. Each entry highlights the scientific discoveries surrounding these creatures, while exploring factors such as climate changes and human impacts that contributed to their demise. The work emphasizes the importance of learning from past extinctions to address the current mass extinction crisis, underscoring the need to protect remaining species and the ecosystems that support life on Earth.
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Extinct Animals, Ross Piper
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- 2009
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- Title
- Extinct Animals
- Subtitle
- An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared during Human History
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ross Piper
- Publisher
- Greenwood
- Publisher
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 232
- ISBN13
- 9780313349874
- Category
- Geology and Mineralogy
- Description
- Focusing on over 60 fascinating extinct animals, the book delves into their histories, habitats, and the reasons behind their extinction. Each entry highlights the scientific discoveries surrounding these creatures, while exploring factors such as climate changes and human impacts that contributed to their demise. The work emphasizes the importance of learning from past extinctions to address the current mass extinction crisis, underscoring the need to protect remaining species and the ecosystems that support life on Earth.