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The Secrets of Pterosaurs

$24.95

Hundreds of millions of years ago, great beasts ruled on the land, beneath the surface of the water, and up above in the skies. Read about pterosaurs, the flying companions of land-dwelling dinosaurs, in PNSO Encyclopedia for Children’s volume The Secrets of Pterosaurs.

Have you ever looked to the sky and wondered what it would be like to soar through its endless expanse? There are many animals who can fly, from the largest birds to the tiniest insects. But once, hundreds of millions of years ago, pterosaurs ruled the skies. They were the greatest fliers this world has known, and they soared above the dinosaurs who ruled the land below. Read about these impressive creatures, learn how they lived, hunted, and survived, and see through breathtaking and detailed illustrations what they looked like all those millennia ago. The Secrets of Pterosaurs will show you a world in the skies you’ll wish you could have witnessed firsthand.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, great beasts ruled on the land, beneath the surface of the water, and up above in the skies. Read about pterosaurs, the flying companions of land-dwelling dinosaurs, in PNSO Encyclopedia for Children’s volume The Secrets of Pterosaurs.

Have you ever looked to the sky and wondered what it would be like to soar through its endless expanse? There are many animals who can fly, from the largest birds to the tiniest insects. But once, hundreds of millions of years ago, pterosaurs ruled the skies. They were the greatest fliers this world has known, and they soared above the dinosaurs who ruled the land below. Read about these impressive creatures, learn how they lived, hunted, and survived, and see through breathtaking and detailed illustrations what they looked like all those millennia ago. The Secrets of Pterosaurs will show you a world in the skies you’ll wish you could have witnessed firsthand.

SPECS

  • Imprint: Brown Books Kids

  • BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures

  • Format: Hardcover

  • Page Count: 240

  • Publication Date: May 25, 2021

  • ISBN-13: 9781612545189

  • Dimensions: 9" x 12"

  • US List Price: $24.95

  • Carton QTY: 8

AUTHOR BIO

ZHAO Chuang and YANG Yang are two professionals who work together to create scientific art. Mr. ZHAO Chuang, a scientific artist, and Ms. YANG Yang, an author of scientific children's books, started working together when they jointly founded PNSO, an organization devoted to the research and creation of scientific art in Beijing on June 1st, 2010. A few months later, they launched Scientific Art Projects Plan: Stories on Earth (2010-2070). The plan uses scientific art to create a captivating, historically accurate narrative. These narratives are based on the latest sci¬entific research, focusing on the complex relationships between species, natural environments, communities, and cultures. The narratives consider the perspectives of human civilizations while exploring Earth's past, present, and future. The PNSO founders plan to spend 60 years to do research and create unique and engaging scientific art and literature for people around the world. They hope to share scientific knowledge through publications, exhibitions, and courses. PNSO's overarching goal is to serve research institutions and the general public, especially young people.

PRAISE

"Remarkable work of scientifically based imagination." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"With their snaggle-tooth smiles, crested skulls, and membranous wings, pterosaurs were some of evolution's most fantastical, and well, let's face it, freakish creatures. The PNSO Encylopedia for Children: The Secrets of Pterosaurs by Zhao Chuang and Yang Yang offers a carefully curated and colorful compendium of these incredible animals, with life reconstructions so vivid and inspired, they appear to fly right off the page. This is as close as you'll get to wildlife 'photography' of the past; open this book and be transported."-Lindsay Zanno, Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, President of The Jurassic Foundation, and editor of The Complete Dinosaur

"I think this is a most impressive book. For a long time, pterosaurs have never really got the attention that they deserve. They were truly bizarre animals but were also a widespread, successful and long-lived group of animals. This book goes a long way to making up for past neglect of pterosaurs. The illustrations are beautifully done, and the text is fun to read. This book will really open the eyes of people of all ages to the fact that there is more to spectacular prehistoric life than just dinosaurs."-Don Henderson, Curator of Dinosaurs for the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology

"With bones as thin as paper, it is inconceivable that evidence of the marvelous and fantastical pterosaurs could have possibly survived the millennia since they filled the skies above the dinosaurs. Yet Zhao Chuang and Yang Yang have scoured every corner of the globe to bring every unlikely discovery to life in the PNSO Encyclopedia for Children: The Secrets of Pterosaurs. The pages of this book contain one of the most comprehensive assemblages of these fantastic creatures, distilled to exquisite detail through the unrivaled artwork of Zhao Chuang and the scientifically grounded writing of Yang Yang. Each extinct creature comes to life, almost leaping from the page and into the air overhead in a book sure to engage readers of any age."-Joseph Sertich, Paleontologist, Explorer, and Curator of Dinosaurs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

"Much like in the real ancient landscape, in the world of paleo-art pterosaurs are too often relegated to mere sky-candy: a tiny set of wings silhouetted against the distant clouds while dinosaurs stomp around in the foreground. No longer! In Zhao and Yang's fabulously illustrated new book, The Secrets of Pterosaurs, it is the dinosaurs which must skulk in the background as the magnificent pterosaurs take center stage! Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color, every pterosaur is splashed across its own double-page spread. A short paragraph of informative and often playful descriptions accompanies each of over 70 different kinds, a mixture of old-time favorites and recently-named new species that you might not yet have heard of. Wonderful."-Denver Fowler, Curator, Badlands Dinosaur Museum, Dickenson Museum Center