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The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals

Journey into the past with this epic encyclopaedia!

Are you ready to discover some of the natural world’s most fascinating extinct and critically endangered animals? Look no further

In The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals from award-winning author and illustrator Sami Bayly, you can pore over beautifully detailed illustrations of some of the most fascinating extinct and critically endangered animals in the natural world.

Not only that, but you can discover how these species fit into the history of the animal kingdom and why they have become extinct or are under threat. Cool, right?

Featuring awesome facts and astonishing illustrations of around sixty amazing animals – including the western black rhinothylacinedodoSouth Island giant moa and Tapanuli orangutan, as well as megafauna such as the giant wombat-like diprotodon and the crocodile-like Quinkana. Plus creatures with mysterious origins like Delcourt’s giant gecko

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Extinct Animals is the latest addition to the Illustrated Encyclopaedia collection by Sami Bayly, following The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Ugly Animals, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Dangerous Animals and The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Peculiar Pairs in Nature. Awesome!

Also from Sami Bayly: How We Came to Be: Surprising Sea Creatures and How We Came to Be: Creatures of Camouflage and Mimicry, the evolution stories behind some of the world’s most remarkable creatures!

Speed-painting a diprotodon!

Check out this super-cool video of author and illustrator Sami Bayly speed-painting a diprotodon – one of the illustrations in the book. Do you think you could try your hand at creating your own version of the creature?

Extinct Animals colouring-in activity!

Want to try your hand at colouring-in some of the illustrations from the book? Download and print these colouring-in sheets below!

Click here for your chance to win an epic Sami Bayly book bundle!

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  • Nobody

    Wow so coolllllll!!!!!

  • Rhiannon

    Cool facts

  • Annabel

    lovely art :)))))))))))))))))))

  • COOL Video

  • I want to learn more About dodo,a

  • Liam Ryan

    I have just watched the drawing video and it is amazing and also I love drawing and also can you give me a guide t o draw diprotodon

  • Because

    Cool man!!!

  • Chanel

    The drawing is sooo cool well I want to draw catnap if you know catnap from poppy playtime bye.

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  • Sophie

    Amazing!

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  • Betty

    I Love it

  • Cool

  • Evie

    I love her

  • Izzabella

    This is so col my little siblings love it when i read it to them and there is even soooooo much facts and information about these type of animal 10/10!

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  • Lilia

    so cute, i love national geographic because it has so many facts that are actually not boring, i always tell my siblings facts and they love it!

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    I know sami bayly

  • Malaya

    So much information

  • Malaya

    Love this website and how it introduces new things to children. I wish I had this when I was younger because it would have helped me so much more to learn things.

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