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The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures.
A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals--what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts--many never before depicted--along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world.
Provides an up-to-date guidebook to hundreds of extinct species, from saber-toothed cats to giant mammoths
Features a wealth of color illustrations, including new reconstructions of many animals never before depicted
Demonstrates evolution in action--such as how whales evolved from hoofed mammals and how giraffes evolved from creatures with short necks
Explains how mass extinctions and climate change affected mammals, including why some mammals grew so huge
A woolly mammoth probably won't come thundering through your vegetable garden any time soon. But if one did, this would be the book to keep on your windowsill next to the binoculars. It covers all the main groups of fossil mammals, discussing taxonomy and evolutionary history, and providing concise accounts of the better-known genera and species as well as an up-to-date family tree for each group. No other book presents such a wealth of new information about these animals--what they looked like, how they behaved, and how they were interrelated. In addition, this unique guide is stunningly illustrated throughout with full-color reconstructions of these beasts--many never before depicted--along with photographs of amazing fossils from around the world.
Provides an up-to-date guidebook to hundreds of extinct species, from saber-toothed cats to giant mammoths
Features a wealth of color illustrations, including new reconstructions of many animals never before depicted
Demonstrates evolution in action--such as how whales evolved from hoofed mammals and how giraffes evolved from creatures with short necks
Explains how mass extinctions and climate change affected mammals, including why some mammals grew so huge
240 pages, Hardcover
First published December 6, 2016
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About the author
Donald R. Prothero
54 books147 followersDonald R. Prothero is a Professor of Geology at Occidental College and Lecturer in Geobiology at the California Institute of Technology. He teaches Physical and Historical Geology, Sedimentary Geology, and Paleontology. His specialties are mammalian paleontology and magnetic stratigraphy of the Cenozoic. His current research focuses on the dating of the climatic changes that occurred between 30 and 40 million years ago, using the technique of magnetic stratigraphy. Dr. Prothero has been a Guggenheim and NSF Fellow, a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and in 1991 received the Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society for outstanding paleontologist under the age of 40, the same award won by the renowned paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. He has authored or co-edited numerous books, including Horns, Tusks, Hooves and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals, the best-selling textbook from McGraw-Hill, Evolution of the Earth, Evolution: What the Fossils Say & Why it Matters, Bringing Fossils to Life, After the Dinosaurs, and the textbook Sedimentary Geology. He is also a Technical Editor of the Journal of Paleontology.
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June 15, 2025
Interesting, enlightening, occasionally even eye-opening (with a detailed index, an expansive bibliography for further reading and study suggestions, and yes indeed, all of the presented information and details seem to be adequately cited and acknowledged, including the many photographs, illustrations and tables) I have definitely and pleasantly enjoyed my much educational perusal of Donald R. Prothero's The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals. The book is well organised and even though by nature and necessity sometimes a wee bit dragging and repetitive, The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals has still and nevertheless generally kept my interest throughout (especially and fortunately due to the fact that the author, because Donald R. Prothero does not over-use complicated subject and science, palaeontology specific jargon, but keeps his text simple enough for easy comprehension but with always more than enough science and academics so as not to make The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals appear immature or childish).
And first and foremost, I do certainly very much appreciate reading about and discovering all of the recent advances and new discoveries within the field of palaeontology (and especially of course pertaining to the study and classification of prehistoric mammals from the Triassic to the Pleistocene). And while I have indeed been at times rather taken aback by the fact that oh so much of what I have read about prehistoric mammals in the past (and even what we were taught in our junior and senior high biology classes) is now all too often pretty much considered woefully out of date and passé, I for one do not at ALL mind gaining this new and enlightening knowledge and information, and only very rarely during my reading of The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals was I in fact cringing a trifle at having a very goodly and large number my so-called (and with no pun intended) sacred cows of the past designated as "wastebasket" prehistoric mammalian designations and classifications (although I do wonder a bit if Donald R. Prothero might have considered using a moniker with less inherent negativity).
And finally (but importantly), I have also very much both enjoyed and been impressed with and by Donald R. Prothero's realistic and balanced approach and viewpoint regarding the at times rather controversial topic of extinction, and in particular in the case of prehistoric mammalian extinctions, the massive die-offs of in particular the aptly named gigantic mega-mammals of especially late Pleistocene North and South America, namely that while the author does state that there is likely more than some truth with regard to the "overkill" hypothesis, in other words that human hunting culture and hunting practices were at least somewhat responsible, but also showing that climate change (and especially the retreating of the glaciers after the end of the last major ice age) might also have more than likely been a not at all minor contributing factor (but also being pretty well adamant that the concept of yet another major asteroid impact approximately 12900 years ago in the Carolinas causing these extinctions is at best fanciful conjecture and pretty much entirely lacking in factual evidence, as the fossil record simply and certainly does not show this, and had there actually been such a mammal species mass extinction causing asteroid impact 12900 odd years ago, that Paleo-Indians would also have been majorly and devastatingly affected, and that well, there just is absolutely no solid evidence supporting this).
For me personally, and as someone who has always been more of a believer that in most cases, animal, plant (all lifeforms) extinctions (and actually, this also tends to pertain to other far-reaching and all encompassing world changes both today and in the distant and not so distant past) are generally not due to only ONE single and simple factor but usually the result of a combination of many such causes, many scenarios coming together, I do very much and indeed find it most pleasantly surprising and heartening that in The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, Donald R. Prothero also seems to be (and very much akin to myself) a what I usually label and describe as a combinatory thinker, that while we (and that also includes many scientists both then and now) do like and often even crave simple one cause, straight forward answers and conclusions, nature (the world) is usually and generally not all that simple and that therefore, there are more often than not more than just one (or even a few) reasons for extinctions and mass extinction events (and that while in the late Pleistocene and especially in the Holocene, humans more than likely did and in todays world definitely do very much and strongly contribute to extinctions, there most probably were and continue to be other contributing factors and events to also consider).
Highly recommended is The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (and while not specifically penned for young readers, in my opinion nicely suitable for readers from about the age of twelve or so onwards). But just to say that while I originally read The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals on my Kindle, the dead tree, the paper format is considerably more user-friendly, is much easier on my eyes than The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals as an e-book and thus definitely to be preferred.
And first and foremost, I do certainly very much appreciate reading about and discovering all of the recent advances and new discoveries within the field of palaeontology (and especially of course pertaining to the study and classification of prehistoric mammals from the Triassic to the Pleistocene). And while I have indeed been at times rather taken aback by the fact that oh so much of what I have read about prehistoric mammals in the past (and even what we were taught in our junior and senior high biology classes) is now all too often pretty much considered woefully out of date and passé, I for one do not at ALL mind gaining this new and enlightening knowledge and information, and only very rarely during my reading of The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals was I in fact cringing a trifle at having a very goodly and large number my so-called (and with no pun intended) sacred cows of the past designated as "wastebasket" prehistoric mammalian designations and classifications (although I do wonder a bit if Donald R. Prothero might have considered using a moniker with less inherent negativity).
And finally (but importantly), I have also very much both enjoyed and been impressed with and by Donald R. Prothero's realistic and balanced approach and viewpoint regarding the at times rather controversial topic of extinction, and in particular in the case of prehistoric mammalian extinctions, the massive die-offs of in particular the aptly named gigantic mega-mammals of especially late Pleistocene North and South America, namely that while the author does state that there is likely more than some truth with regard to the "overkill" hypothesis, in other words that human hunting culture and hunting practices were at least somewhat responsible, but also showing that climate change (and especially the retreating of the glaciers after the end of the last major ice age) might also have more than likely been a not at all minor contributing factor (but also being pretty well adamant that the concept of yet another major asteroid impact approximately 12900 years ago in the Carolinas causing these extinctions is at best fanciful conjecture and pretty much entirely lacking in factual evidence, as the fossil record simply and certainly does not show this, and had there actually been such a mammal species mass extinction causing asteroid impact 12900 odd years ago, that Paleo-Indians would also have been majorly and devastatingly affected, and that well, there just is absolutely no solid evidence supporting this).
For me personally, and as someone who has always been more of a believer that in most cases, animal, plant (all lifeforms) extinctions (and actually, this also tends to pertain to other far-reaching and all encompassing world changes both today and in the distant and not so distant past) are generally not due to only ONE single and simple factor but usually the result of a combination of many such causes, many scenarios coming together, I do very much and indeed find it most pleasantly surprising and heartening that in The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals, Donald R. Prothero also seems to be (and very much akin to myself) a what I usually label and describe as a combinatory thinker, that while we (and that also includes many scientists both then and now) do like and often even crave simple one cause, straight forward answers and conclusions, nature (the world) is usually and generally not all that simple and that therefore, there are more often than not more than just one (or even a few) reasons for extinctions and mass extinction events (and that while in the late Pleistocene and especially in the Holocene, humans more than likely did and in todays world definitely do very much and strongly contribute to extinctions, there most probably were and continue to be other contributing factors and events to also consider).
Highly recommended is The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals (and while not specifically penned for young readers, in my opinion nicely suitable for readers from about the age of twelve or so onwards). But just to say that while I originally read The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals on my Kindle, the dead tree, the paper format is considerably more user-friendly, is much easier on my eyes than The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals as an e-book and thus definitely to be preferred.
December 16, 2017
Imagine a world where North America was filled with camels, bison even larger than the ones we have (a few of) now, mammoths that looked like elephants (except even larger), and saber-toothed cats. It existed, only about 10-20,000 years ago, and there was much else besides, on this and every other continent. We think of extinction as a recent problem of modernity, and certainly it is that, but it is also a very old phenomenon as well.
The main problem with books about all of these extinct mammals, of course, from giant to tiny, is that they are represented primarily by two things:
1) a Latin name (or perhaps Greek)
2) a skeleton, with an emphasis on the teeth
This book is different. It is absolutely packed with drawings, necessarily somewhat speculative, of what many extinct mammals looked like. From all over the world, and from not only the relatively recent past, but all through the entire existence of mammals. Giant sloths that stood more than twice the height of a man. Proto-elephants called gompotheres, some species of which had tusks as long as the rest of their body. A mammal that fits easily on the eraser end of a standard sized pencil. Whales, bats, cats, and rodents of every imaginable shape and size. The Hoplitomeryx, a deer from 8 million years ago or so, has the strangest and spikiest skull I have ever seen, and I cannot imagine why it is not the name of a heavy metal band.
Since the bones and teeth are, though, usually all that we have, it helps to have someone who can help the artist (Mary Persis Williams) get her speculations as close to the known facts as can be. That someone, who also provides the excellent written explanation of what we are looking at, is Donald Prothero. He is a working paleontologist, who has not only studied the aforesaid fossils in museums, but dug them up in the field. He is also able to explain in easy-to-follow ways how other lines of evidence such as gene-sequencing of modern descendants has been used to fill in (or sometimes correct) the broad strokes of the story told by fossils.
Prothero's own biases do come through occasionally, of course. Most noticeably, he tries to equivocate on the question of whether or not humans are primarily responsible for the disappearance of the largest mammals on every continent compared to 20,000 years ago or so. Perhaps he is worried that if laypeople learn that humans have been causing extinctions for so long, that we will cease to think it is a problem. For myself, the evidence appears overwhelming, but the pictures of all that we could be seeing now if we had not overhunted them, is persuasion enough that we should try to keep what we still have.
I found this to be an excellent bedside book, with a half a chapter to a chapter a night to wind down with. I am sorry to say I never ended up (so far as I recall) dreaming about giant sloths, giraffids, chalicotheres, or any of the other wondrous species listed, but then I guess I am glad I didn't dream about a saber-toothed tiger. I think it will be a great book to re-read, as well, though. Maybe someday I'll see a giant sloth in my dreams yet.
The main problem with books about all of these extinct mammals, of course, from giant to tiny, is that they are represented primarily by two things:
1) a Latin name (or perhaps Greek)
2) a skeleton, with an emphasis on the teeth
This book is different. It is absolutely packed with drawings, necessarily somewhat speculative, of what many extinct mammals looked like. From all over the world, and from not only the relatively recent past, but all through the entire existence of mammals. Giant sloths that stood more than twice the height of a man. Proto-elephants called gompotheres, some species of which had tusks as long as the rest of their body. A mammal that fits easily on the eraser end of a standard sized pencil. Whales, bats, cats, and rodents of every imaginable shape and size. The Hoplitomeryx, a deer from 8 million years ago or so, has the strangest and spikiest skull I have ever seen, and I cannot imagine why it is not the name of a heavy metal band.
Since the bones and teeth are, though, usually all that we have, it helps to have someone who can help the artist (Mary Persis Williams) get her speculations as close to the known facts as can be. That someone, who also provides the excellent written explanation of what we are looking at, is Donald Prothero. He is a working paleontologist, who has not only studied the aforesaid fossils in museums, but dug them up in the field. He is also able to explain in easy-to-follow ways how other lines of evidence such as gene-sequencing of modern descendants has been used to fill in (or sometimes correct) the broad strokes of the story told by fossils.
Prothero's own biases do come through occasionally, of course. Most noticeably, he tries to equivocate on the question of whether or not humans are primarily responsible for the disappearance of the largest mammals on every continent compared to 20,000 years ago or so. Perhaps he is worried that if laypeople learn that humans have been causing extinctions for so long, that we will cease to think it is a problem. For myself, the evidence appears overwhelming, but the pictures of all that we could be seeing now if we had not overhunted them, is persuasion enough that we should try to keep what we still have.
I found this to be an excellent bedside book, with a half a chapter to a chapter a night to wind down with. I am sorry to say I never ended up (so far as I recall) dreaming about giant sloths, giraffids, chalicotheres, or any of the other wondrous species listed, but then I guess I am glad I didn't dream about a saber-toothed tiger. I think it will be a great book to re-read, as well, though. Maybe someday I'll see a giant sloth in my dreams yet.
January 25, 2018
A comprehensive guide to the fossil history of mammals, the bulk of which is taken up by a family-by-family breakdown.
With such a wide topic, the coverage, while comprehensive, is necessarily sometimes brief. For example, fossil skunks receive just a couple of sentences, because, frankly, we know almost nothing about fossil skunks, and most of what we do know would be rather dry to recount. Where groups are well known, however, the coverage is thorough (elephants and their kin receive six pages, for instance) and well-written.
In addition to the main coverage, the initial chapter covers some general topics in mammalian palaeontology (it's all in the teeth, you know). At the opposite end, the final chapter covers general themes in mammalian evolution, such as why everything seemed to be so much bigger in the past.
Of course, a book of this sort would not be complete without illustrations, and these occupy about half of the page count, including both photographs and drawings. For what it's worth, a lot of the pictures come from wikipedia (which, let's be honest, is where I get 95% of the pictures for my blog on mammalian biology and evolution). However, there are a number of original ones, too, which are pretty decent, if not quite of the highest calibre, of the likes of, say, Mauricio Anton.
The pictures are also supplemented by a large number of cladograms, showing how different groups are related. It's perhaps slightly unfortunate that these, apparently taken directly from a number of different sources, have no common format, making the arrangement of the book appear rather more haphazard than it actually is.
I found this an excellent survey of mammalian fossil history as a whole. It lacks the depth of books on narrower topics, but easily makes up for that in its thoroughness, giving good coverage to a wide range of prehistoric mammals, many of which tend to be ignored in popular reference books on the subject, especially those in which mammals are sandwiched in as an afterthought to the dinosaurs, because everyone knows that sabretooths and mammoths are cool, but somehow forgets (say) the apatomyids.
With such a wide topic, the coverage, while comprehensive, is necessarily sometimes brief. For example, fossil skunks receive just a couple of sentences, because, frankly, we know almost nothing about fossil skunks, and most of what we do know would be rather dry to recount. Where groups are well known, however, the coverage is thorough (elephants and their kin receive six pages, for instance) and well-written.
In addition to the main coverage, the initial chapter covers some general topics in mammalian palaeontology (it's all in the teeth, you know). At the opposite end, the final chapter covers general themes in mammalian evolution, such as why everything seemed to be so much bigger in the past.
Of course, a book of this sort would not be complete without illustrations, and these occupy about half of the page count, including both photographs and drawings. For what it's worth, a lot of the pictures come from wikipedia (which, let's be honest, is where I get 95% of the pictures for my blog on mammalian biology and evolution). However, there are a number of original ones, too, which are pretty decent, if not quite of the highest calibre, of the likes of, say, Mauricio Anton.
The pictures are also supplemented by a large number of cladograms, showing how different groups are related. It's perhaps slightly unfortunate that these, apparently taken directly from a number of different sources, have no common format, making the arrangement of the book appear rather more haphazard than it actually is.
I found this an excellent survey of mammalian fossil history as a whole. It lacks the depth of books on narrower topics, but easily makes up for that in its thoroughness, giving good coverage to a wide range of prehistoric mammals, many of which tend to be ignored in popular reference books on the subject, especially those in which mammals are sandwiched in as an afterthought to the dinosaurs, because everyone knows that sabretooths and mammoths are cool, but somehow forgets (say) the apatomyids.
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January 22, 2024Wow. Way more than I can handle right now. But gosh when I was younger, or when my kids were young and we did enrichment learning together, I would've loved it. Highly recommended to anyone interested, age 8 (?) up.
January 8, 2024
This book really is an amazing one, truly out of all the natural books that I've read it is the best. Written by the amazing paleontologist Donald R Prothero who is a specialist on ancient mammals. You not only learn much about a subject that often lives in the shadows of the more famous dinosaurs but hear the writer's genuine passion for the group.
Speaking of the subject This book covers every group both living and extinct group of mammals known. Starting with the basal synapsids (Often called mammal-like reptiles) such as Dimetrodon the books goes on to describe how more derived synapsids like Gorgonopsids went onto dominate the Permian world. We then see the Great Dying leave them decimated as the Archosaurs like dinosaurs rising to dominance as the mammals were forced into the shadows. We see though that they were still somewhat diverse though with many small niches like otters, and gliders as well as the Multituberculates which were the longest surviving group of mammals only dying out due to the climate change at the end of the Eocene.
We then see the many lineages that then emerged in the post Dinosaur landscape of the Cenozoic. And boy there is quite a lot. Elephant relatives with many bizarre tusk configurations, massive giraffe like rhinos larger than any elephants, Mesonychids which are like wolves with hooves, creodonts larger than most modern predators, Nimravids the cats before cats, and many other far more obscure groups. Of course not all get the same coverage some such as the helohyidae or the many small insectivorous groups from the early Paleocene, but honestly that's understandable little is known about these groups.
This book ends with a nice coverage of some obscure groups like the south american ungulates, Pantodonts, Taeniodont and Tillodonts. Which seems a fitting end and a smart decision. Closing the book on an underappreciated group seems in line with the book's overall theme. It would have been so easy to end it on a charismatic group like primates or carnivorans.
This is a definite recommend to any who enjoy paleontology subjects
Speaking of the subject This book covers every group both living and extinct group of mammals known. Starting with the basal synapsids (Often called mammal-like reptiles) such as Dimetrodon the books goes on to describe how more derived synapsids like Gorgonopsids went onto dominate the Permian world. We then see the Great Dying leave them decimated as the Archosaurs like dinosaurs rising to dominance as the mammals were forced into the shadows. We see though that they were still somewhat diverse though with many small niches like otters, and gliders as well as the Multituberculates which were the longest surviving group of mammals only dying out due to the climate change at the end of the Eocene.
We then see the many lineages that then emerged in the post Dinosaur landscape of the Cenozoic. And boy there is quite a lot. Elephant relatives with many bizarre tusk configurations, massive giraffe like rhinos larger than any elephants, Mesonychids which are like wolves with hooves, creodonts larger than most modern predators, Nimravids the cats before cats, and many other far more obscure groups. Of course not all get the same coverage some such as the helohyidae or the many small insectivorous groups from the early Paleocene, but honestly that's understandable little is known about these groups.
This book ends with a nice coverage of some obscure groups like the south american ungulates, Pantodonts, Taeniodont and Tillodonts. Which seems a fitting end and a smart decision. Closing the book on an underappreciated group seems in line with the book's overall theme. It would have been so easy to end it on a charismatic group like primates or carnivorans.
This is a definite recommend to any who enjoy paleontology subjects
April 30, 2024
A chapter by chapter guide to extinct mammal species, organized by evolutionary lineage. Covered the early 'mammal like' forms from the Permian, through the mesozoic and up to the recent past. The evolutionary trees were highly useful, though not all groups had them. There was obviously a space constraint for the book, as it felt like the descriptions were rather brief and cursory, while the author admitted he was told not to write much about the less charismatic smaller mammals that made up the majority of species, such as rodents and bats. A basic introduction to palentology, geology and bone anatomy was made, and the final chapter tackled broad questions of mass extinction and diversity over time, though other books do a better job at those topics. The drawings were quite crude too, and a smaller format than a coffee table sized edition would perhaps have sufficed.
April 22, 2019
Fairly good, but was kind of disappointed in the illustration department: someone clearly went through the effort of making color illustrations for many of the creatures so as to pose them against a black silhouette of a human for sizing purposes, but most of them are fairly small. There were also sometimes some skeletons that I wish had illustrations to go with them to show what they would have looked like in life. I didn't quite enjoy this one as much as other prehistoric animal books I've owned, although if you always wondered what bats are related to or other little trivia like that then this is definitely a good book for you.
May 25, 2023
If you are not excited by the cover--a mammoth looking on curiously (mournfully?) while saber-toothed cats attack a giant sloth and camelids graze in the distance--then maybe you wouldn't like this book. I have written about the Pleistocene in a number of my own novels, and I am such a fan of Donald Prothero, as well as the illustrator of this, Mary Persis Williams. I am consulting The Princeton Guide to Prehistoric Mammals now as I write a time-travel sci-fi about the Miocene. Millions of years before the Pleistocene. Very different animals. I miss the mammoths. But there are bear dogs.
July 31, 2023
A very comprehensive collection of the prehistoric mammals to study when you want to take a break from dinosaurs for once. It's good but...I somehow doubt Arctodus weighed over a tonne, the barbourofelids were omitted, there's not enough on the mighty walrus Pelagiarctos, and Megatherium was likely to be bald.
December 27, 2024
Prothero is obviously very knowledgeable, and this book gives a good overview of the incredible diversity of extinct mammals. The animal descriptions are often interspersed with historical accounts; I haven't decided whether this is a positive (it is interesting to learn about the history of paleontology) or a negative (it can distract from the animal descriptions themselves).
February 9, 2022
I love paleoart and smilodons, so I thought this would be a good book. While it did have some good facts, the author wandered into opinion, modern history, and pop culture. Additionally, the author showed strong preference for certain species and frequently promoted his own work.
March 20, 2022
Good illustrations. Even though it presents the reptiles and mammals by family, I wish there were a time line, because times of flourishing is mixed. It would have been good to know the order of species in evolution.
April 16, 2017
Extinct xenarthrans are extremely good. That's large anteaters, armadillos and sloths. Buddy thinks some of the giant sloths might've been aquatic, given the density of their bones. But the coolest to me are the ones who dug the paleocaves. Giant sloth tunnels!
Though my favourites will always be the chalicotheres. Horse ancestors with a body like a gorilla. Knuckle-walkers, even. Too pure for this fallen world of ours.
It's the illustrations that make these books what they are, and the ones here aren't so good.
Though my favourites will always be the chalicotheres. Horse ancestors with a body like a gorilla. Knuckle-walkers, even. Too pure for this fallen world of ours.
It's the illustrations that make these books what they are, and the ones here aren't so good.
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