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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! What if elephants were covered with thick hair? Such a creature existed until about 4,000 years ago! Learn more about the giant, tusked woolly mammoth, which coexisted with humans until it went extinct. Full-color photographs, diagrams, and other resources make this title interesting and accessible to young readers.
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With its massive tusks and long trunk, the woolly mammoth was the early ancestor of today's elephants. Readers learn about this prehistoric pachyderm and its home during the Ice Age from engaging text and colorful illustrations reviewed by Smithsonian experts.
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Learn all about the giant, tusked woolly mammoth, which coexisted with humans until it went extinct. Now in Spanish, this carefully leveled text includes full-color photographs, diagrams, and other resources to make this subject interesting and accessible to young readers.
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The Woolly Mammoth weighed about 6 tons. Some species of mammoths may have been bigger or smaller. The Woolly Mammoths also had tusks, but the Woolly Mammoth tusks were much longer than an elephant's tusks, about 15 feet. They used their tusks for fighting each other and digging in the snow. Contrary to common belief, the Woolly Mammoth was hardly mammoth in size. The ears of a Woolly Mammoth were shorter than a modern elephant's ears. Scientists...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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Join a pack of woolly mammoths as they trek south for the winter, braving fierce storms, deadly predators, and raging rivers while making their slow journey across the gorgeous unspoiled lands of this continent until finally they reach their goal. With the same jouncy and joyous rhythms of her youngest picture book texts, Lisa Wheeler draws readers into the mystery of prehistory and of one of the most awesome beasts to ever walk the earth: the massive,...
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Earth's past is littered with the mysterious and unexplained: the pyramids, Easter Island, Stonehenge, dinosaurs, and the list goes on and on as science looks for clues to decipher these puzzles. One such mystery surrounds the now-extinct creature called the woolly mammoth. Author and meteorologist Michael Oard has studied the mammoth and its equally mysterious time period, the Ice Age, for many years and has come to some fascinating conclusions to...
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Ice age 4 movie collection volume 2
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While Scrat the Saber-toothed Squirrel is still trying to find his precious acorn, the misfit trio of Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabre-tooth Tiger have settled down in an isolated valley with numerous other animals. However, the trio soon discover that the ice wall surrounding the valley is barely holding back a massive body of water behind it and the melting state threatens to break the wall and flood the valley. With their one...
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The Ice Age is coming to an end and Manny, a woolly mammoth, and his friends make their way to a distant part of their valley to escape the oncoming flood waters from the melting glaciers.
Los animales disfrutan felices del parque acuático de deshielo que es su nuevo mundo. Many, Diego y Sid, pronto descubren que el parque se esta volviendo demasiado mojado: un glacial gigante esta apunto de romperse amenazando el valle y la supervivencia de todos...
14) Mamut lanudo
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Learn about the physical characteristics, the eating habits, and the extinction of the wooly mammoth.
16) Ice age
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1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny, Diego, Sid and Scrat become a courageous quartet of migrating misfits braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey. Creatures everywhere were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice age ...
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"Today, we know that a mammoth is an extinct type of elephant that was covered with long fur and lived in the north country during the ice ages. But how do you figure out what a mammoth is if you have no concept of extinction, ice ages, or fossils? Long after the last mammoth died and was no longer part of the human diet, it still played a role in human life. Cultures around the world interpreted the remains of mammoths through the lens of their own...
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xii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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No fabled creature of the Pleistocene Era has a more powerful hold on the imagination than does the woolly mammoth. Cave paintings of the giant beasts hint at the profound role they played in early human culture-our Ice Age ancestors built igloo-shaped huts out of mammoth bones and even feasted on mammoth tongues. Eager to uncover more clues to this mystical prehistoric age, explorers since the time of Peter the Great have scoured Siberia for mammoth...
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"A playful, witty, and resonant novel in which a single mother and her two teen daughters engage in a wild scientific experiment and discover themselves in the process, from the award-winning writer of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty Jane is a serious scientist on the cutting-edge team of a bold project looking to "de-extinct" the wooly mammoth. She's privileged to have been sent to Siberia to hunt for ancient DNA, but there's a catch: Jane's...
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