Prehistoric America: a Journey Through the Ice Age and Beyond.MILES BARTON, NIGEL BEAN, ET AL. Journey back in time 13,000 years and imagine the landscape and animals that the first North Americans North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. encountered upon arrival. From the icy arctic waters to the steamy swamps of the Everglades, this book examines the continent region-by-region and introduces extinct creatures. Ground sloths rear their heads as high as a giraffe giraffe, African ruminant mammal, Giraffa camelopardalis, living in open savanna S of the Sahara. The tallest of animals, giraffes browse in treetops at heights inaccessible to other leaf-eaters. A male may be 18 ft (5.5 m) from hoof to crown. to graze on trees. The 5-foot-tall, almost 1ton glyptodont Glyp´to`dont n. 1. (Paleon.) One of a family ( Caribou (kâr`ĭb  ), town (1990 pop. 9,415), Aroostook co., NE Maine, on the Aroostook River; inc. 1859. . This is the companion book to a Discovery Channel television show. Yale U Pr, 2002, 192 p., color photos/illus., hardcover, $29.95.
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