Lost Giants

Gone forever. Never forgotten.

From the Woolly Mammoth and Tyrannosaurus rex to the Dodo and the Thylacine, this fact-filled guide introduces 100 remarkable animals that no longer walk, swim, or fly on Earth. Some vanished only a few centuries ago. Others disappeared at the end of the last Ice Age. All of them left clues in fossils, caves, museums, and human memory.

Lost Giants is a colorful trivia book for curious kids, families, teachers, and animal lovers of every age. Read it from start to finish, dip into a favorite animal, or quiz your friends.

On every page

• Quick Stats: when and where it lived, its size, and its diet
• Amazing Facts: the strangest and most surprising things about the animal
• Size vs. Human: a simple picture that shows how big it really was
• Did You Know? one more fact worth remembering
• Trivia Time: a question to test yourself, with answers in the back

Meet giants, monsters, and vanished neighbors

Explore Ice Age giants like the Smilodon and the Giant Ground Sloth, dinosaurs and flying reptiles, ancient sea monsters, enormous birds, and animals lost in recent history, from the Passenger Pigeon to the Pyrenean Ibex.

Can you answer them all?

"Was Smilodon a tiger?"
"Why did mammoths have such small ears?"

Grab your copy of Lost Giants and discover the animals the world lost.