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Outside And Inside Woolly Mammoths

Outside And Inside Woolly Mammoths
By Sandra Markle

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Imagine discovering a creature that's been extinct for tens of thousands of years. Everything is still there--skin, hair, blood cells, the food in it's stomach, and even its DNA! The Ice Age that was home to legendary woolly mammoths provided the perfect conditions to preserve their bodies.
 
Let your imagination soar as Sandra Markle uncovers the secrets of these long-extinct behemouths in the latest entry in the award-winning Outside and Inside series. How did these distant relatives of the elephants live, and why did they become extinct? The bodies they left behind give scientists clues about their disappearance and the genetic material to possibly clone woolly mammoths today.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #834378 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-04-25
  • Original language: English
  • Dimensions: .43" h x 10.25" w x 9.05" l, .96 pounds
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 1 pages

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal
Grade 4–8—Markle has been detailing the outsides and delving into the insides of a wide variety of creatures over the years, and here she looks at and into that Ice Age favorite, the woolly mammoth. With some sidelights about present-day elephants for comparison, she investigates skeletal remains—teeth, tusks, legs, feet, and other body parts. And, from the remarkable frozen finds on the icy tundra, she discusses hair composition, heart and trunk structure, blood chemistry, and the contents of mammoth digestive systems. She posits questions regarding their extinction—food-supply changes, climate change, disease, human hunting—and the possibility of cloning, using a female elephant as a surrogate mother. Excellent-quality photos include preserved remains, electron micrographs, and three-dimensional CT scans. Even libraries that own Windsor Chorlton's attractive Woolly Mammoth: Life, Death, and Rediscovery (Scholastic, 2001) or Caroline Arnold's equally handsome When Mammoths Walked the Earth (Clarion, 2002) should make room for this eye-catching and informative title.—Patricia Manning, formerly at Eastchester Public Library, NY
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From Booklist
For the newest entry in her essential Outside and Inside series, Markle explains what scientists have discovered from the preserved remains of mammoths: their food, and the structure of their hair, their soft tissues, and even their DNA. Asking readers leading questions and systematically noting similarities to and differences from modern elephants, she speculates about why mammoths became extinct, and closes with the suggestion that it might be possible to bring these creatures back through cloning. Except for the cover picture, the illustrations are all big, sharp color photos and digital tomography images rather than artistic re-creations. A closing multimedia resource list that is accurately pitched to the level of her intended audience makes this as valuable for student use as for pleasure reading. John Peters
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About the Author

SANDRA MARKLE is the best-selling and award-winning author of more than sixty nonfiction projects for young readers, including the best-selling A Mother's Journey. Her Outside and Inside series has received numerous accolades, including many starred reviews.  She lives with her husband, photographer Skip Jeffery, in New Zealand.