Table of Contents

1 The prehistoric world

2 How the Earth began

3 Under the sea

4 Life on the land

5 Swampy forests

6 The first reptiles

7 The first dinosaurs

8 Hunter dinosaurs

9 Raptors

10 The first birds

11 Tyrannosaurus rex

12 Giant dinosaurs

13 Duck-billed dinosaurs

14 Horned dinosaurs

15 Stegosaurs

16 Boneheads

17 Spiky dinosaurs

18 Baby dinosaurs

19 Sea reptiles

20 Flying reptiles

21 The death of dinosaurs

22 The first mammals

23 More mammals

24 South American mammals

25 Ice age mammals

26 The first people

27 How do we know?

28 New discoveries

29 Prehistoric facts and figures

30 Prehistoric words

31 Index

About the Author

Sam Taplin grew up in a beautiful valley in Yorkshire, where he dreamed of being a writer, and after three years reading other people's books at university he started writing his own for Usborne. He's been doing it ever since. When he's not writing about lonely rabbits or inquisitive bears, he likes doing card tricks, writing songs and playing long games of chess by the fire.