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Title: When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm

Author: Hannah Bonner

Narrator: Abigail McCue

Format: Unabridged

Length: 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-22-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10

Publisher's Summary:

If you think dinosaurs are cool, wait till you learn what covered Earth 430 million years ago. Thats long before dinos even existed. There wasnt much on land - some really tiny plants and even smaller animals like millipedes and mites. But offshore life was another story.

Six-foot-long relatives of modern scorpions roamed the open water, gobbling up smaller creatures. Fish were out there, too. There just werent many of them, and they were much different than todays fish. For one thing, they didnt have jaws. But they were the first animals to have backbones. Eventually they crawled out of the water on primitive feet - and the rest is history!

Award-winning author Hannah Bonner delivers an engaging and thoroughly entertaining tour through a few hundred million years of evolution.

Critic Reviews:

[A] heaping course of science that will both stick to the ribs and tickle them. (Kirkus Reviews)

Members Reviews:

A great introduction to an overlooked era for all ages

This book offers a unique and delightful look at the Silurian and Devonian periods, suitable for school children but including some funny bits and cool facts that will help adults learn or recall the main events of this pivotal time in our planet's history. It also is the only book I've seen for kids that provides some information on my favorite predator, Dunkleosteus, incidentally playing it conservative and assigning a length of 6 meters where some books say 8 and a few old ones say 10. There are short, clear explanations of everything from the creation of soil to the adaptations needed for plants and animals to invade the dry land environment. Recommended to my by no less than paleontologists Matt Mossbrucker and Dr. Robert Bakker, this is just a terrific book: order one for your kid's library and another for yourself.Rumors of Existence

Nice introduction to multi-cellular life on primeval Earth.

This short book by National Geographic introduces the reader to the diverse forms of the original plant and animal life that originally appeared on Earth. The book starts with the Ordovician period, and ends with the Permian period before the dinosaurs appeared. The principal topics covered are the appearance of fishes, the rise of bony fishes, the greening of the Earth's surface, and the appearance on land of the first arthropods and tetrapods. The level and detail of text is appropriate for anyone above 6 years old. This book contains no photographs, only color illustrations and an occasional graph or timeline. The illustrations of the plants and animals are not overly detailed, and match the style and detail of the cover art. The book is interesting to read, and I myself enjoyed reading it as much as my children

Great intro to the those things next to the Dinosaurs at the museum...

Ever try to go to the natural history museum and get stumped on those things in the dioramas next to the t-rex? I do and I could barely pronounce their names correctly with my son... this is a great intro to that story - which is in some ways more interesting than dinosaurs. We like the information, the cute ideas... I wish the drawings were a bit better without the corny talking animals/species. But all in all, good book to have for the budding naturalist/paleontologist/scientist.

Charming, educational and delightful!

I was immediately taken with this wonderful book.