"This STEM-based nonfiction illustrated picture book introduces readers to several well-known animal and insect endlings, the last known survivors of a species, while discussing the mass extinction crisis facing our planet and what kids can do to make a difference."-- Meet Martha, Booming Ben, Lonesome George, Incas, Benjamin, Celia, Turgi, and Toughie. Or rather, you can't meet them. They were endlings: the last known survivor of a species or subspecies....

"When teenager Marise Leeson gets her hands on a crystal ball, she believes her knowledge of Wicca is about to expand. The magic, however, goes horribly wrong. In short order, she's thrown into the alternate world of Moerden, attacked by a dragon, and rescued by Javeer, a young male dragon in search of a friend. Instead of dabbling in scrying and spells, Marise must now use her Wicca skills to navigate rival dragon factions, talk to dragons, ride...

Over the last half billion years, there have been five major mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on Earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around the cataclysm is us. In this book the author tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species...

Late in the next century, the human race faces extinction. An incurable virus has left the world with no new births. But three of the last surviving teens are determined to carry on. When they stuble upon the decades-old mystery of a missing girl, they may find a way to save the world.

Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.

How did the dinosaurs die? They were the biggest, most powerful animals that ever walked the earth. Now they are all gone -- extinct. Sixty-five million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth, with devastating effects. Paleontologist Charlotte Lewis Brown and artist Phil Wilson recreate what may have happened to the dinosaurs on that deadly day.

The book discusses dinosaurs and different theories regarding their extinction.

"A resource on fossils and the stories they tell of the history of life on earth."--

Reveals how, over time, new life-forms evolved from earlier ones, and after serveral billiono years, added up to diversity as well as extinctions.

"Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T., which was, of course, short for Sh*t Turd . . . When the world last checked-in with its beloved Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry, zombie-like beasts, and all things natural had started staking claim to territory that had previously been inhabited by humans. And S.T., alongside his Bloodhound-bestie Dennis, had set about saving pets that...