Incredible stories of extinct animals

What did a Tretretretre look like? What is a Dodo? What happened to the giant beavers? Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt narrate in text and image, through lifelike illustrations and informative comics, the life and extinction of animals that disappeared sometime between the Stone Age and our present day. Magnificent creatures that deserve to be remembered. The Tretretretre from Madagascar is forever silent; the great lemur now only speaks in legends. The same fate has befallen the Pouakai, the Mapinguari, the Kilopilopitsofy, and other animals whose names alone inspire dreams. Some were gigantic, others beautiful, some solitary, and others loved company. And most of them have fallen victim to humans. The legends of some peoples have led modern science to discover extinct species just as much as factual reports from modern times and finds of skeletons or stuffed specimens in old museums. Through detective-like methods, science has learned much about the lifestyles of these animals.