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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm
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English
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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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"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...
6) Mamut lanudo
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24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
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Español
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Learn about the physical characteristics, the eating habits, and the extinction of the wooly 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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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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English
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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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Español
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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...
11) Ice age
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1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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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xii, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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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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36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"Meet Orq. He cave boy. Meet Woma. He woolly mammoth. Orq love Woma. A lot. He want pet. Orq's mother say Woma shed. And smell. And not housetrained. Yuck. Woma not allowed in cave. But Orq has plan. Kind of."
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293 pages ; 24 cm
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"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time--is working to make the impossible happen. Their task? To bring the Woolly Mammoth, a creature that has been extinct for three thousand years, back into our world. How will they do it? By sequencing the DNA of a frozen Woolly Mammoth harvested from...
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1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Have you heard the news? Your favorite sub-zero heroes are back in an all-new holiday adventure for the whole family! When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's 'naughty list, ' he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world! Bonus features included....
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1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut and in the process may find his true love; Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth; Diego, the saber-toothed tiger, wonders if he's growing too 'soft' hanging with his pals; and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world where they...
20) Woolly mammoth
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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 23 cm.
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English
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Describes what has been learned about the physical appearance, behavior, and surroundings of the long-extinct woolly mammoth.
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