Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk Howard Gray loved to draw when he was growing up, and was always captivated by animals and nature. He pursued art throughout school but went on to study zoology at university, eventually completing a PhD on dolphins! Now, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator and has worked on many fiction and non-fiction projects. These days, he lives with his family in the picturesque city of Durham, UK.

• Features: Early predators on land, such as Dimetrodon and Dienonychus - riverbank hunters, such as Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus and Megapiranha - giant ground hunters - dromaeosaurids - giant prehistoric snakes - early mammal predators - South American predators of the past - Pleistocene predators - hunters of the sky - flying reptiles - prehistoric birds - how prey animals have evolved to cope with predators - ancient hunters of the seas - whales - sharks - today's top predators - felines - ocean hunters of today - insect hunters - birds of prey and snakes. Also includes a gatefold showing these creatures placed upon a timeline of the Earth and an index.

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Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk Howard Gray loved to draw when he was growing up, and was always captivated by animals and nature. He pursued art throughout school but went on to study zoology at university, eventually completing a PhD on dolphins! Now, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator and has worked on many fiction and non-fiction projects. These days, he lives with his family in the picturesque city of Durham, UK.

• Features: Early predators on land, such as Dimetrodon and Dienonychus - riverbank hunters, such as Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus and Megapiranha - giant ground hunters - dromaeosaurids - giant prehistoric snakes - early mammal predators - South American predators of the past - Pleistocene predators - hunters of the sky - flying reptiles - prehistoric birds - how prey animals have evolved to cope with predators - ancient hunters of the seas - whales - sharks - today's top predators - felines - ocean hunters of today - insect hunters - birds of prey and snakes. Also includes a gatefold showing these creatures placed upon a timeline of the Earth and an index.

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Clive Gifford is the author of more than 150 children's books including Eye Benders, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize, Royal Society-nominated Out of This World and Cool Technology which won the School Library Association Information Book Award. His book, The Colours of History, won the Blue Peter Book Awards' Best Book With Facts. He has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee. Clive's official website can be found at www.clivegifford.co.uk Howard Gray loved to draw when he was growing up, and was always captivated by animals and nature. He pursued art throughout school but went on to study zoology at university, eventually completing a PhD on dolphins! Now, Howard has returned to his dream career of becoming an illustrator and has worked on many fiction and non-fiction projects. These days, he lives with his family in the picturesque city of Durham, UK.

• Features: Early predators on land, such as Dimetrodon and Dienonychus - riverbank hunters, such as Sarcosuchus, Suchomimus and Megapiranha - giant ground hunters - dromaeosaurids - giant prehistoric snakes - early mammal predators - South American predators of the past - Pleistocene predators - hunters of the sky - flying reptiles - prehistoric birds - how prey animals have evolved to cope with predators - ancient hunters of the seas - whales - sharks - today's top predators - felines - ocean hunters of today - insect hunters - birds of prey and snakes. Also includes a gatefold showing these creatures placed upon a timeline of the Earth and an index.

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