Discusses life on the land, including its origins, variety, and different environments, or biomes. Presenting a straightforward text in a highly accessible two-color format, On the Land is a fascinating presentation of the past and present evolution of human, plant, and animal inhabitants on land.
General Note
Includes index.
Content Note
Introduction -- Land: Land -- Climatic zones -- Life on land -- Mass extinctions -- Fossils: Becoming a fossil -- Dating fossils -- Fossil fuels -- Animals without backbones: Snails and worms -- Spiders and scorpions -- Millipedes and centipedes -- Invertebrates -- Amphibians and reptiles: Frogs and toads -- Salamanders -- Early reptiles -- Rise of the dinosaurs -- Dinosaurs in variety -- Tortoises and tuataras -- Lizards -- Snakes -- Mammals: First mammals -- Egg-laying mammals -- Ancient marsupials -- Carnivorous marsupials -- Plant-eating marsupials -- Primitive placentals -- Insectivores -- Edentates -- Primates -- Rabbits and rodents -- Squirrels -- Mice and guinea pigs -- Carnivores -- Ancient Carnivores -- Modern carnivores -- Primitive hoofed mammals -- South American hoofed mammals -- Odd-toed hoofed mammals -- Even-toed hoofed mammals -- Ruminants -- Elephants -- Birds: Running birds -- Biomes: Tropical rainforest -- Temperate woodland -- Boreal forest -- Tropical grassland -- Temperate grassland -- Desert -- Mountains -- Polar regions -- Timeline.