在这里你将看到：巨齿鲨、刃齿虎、星尾兽、恐鹤、怪诞虫、巨脉蜻蜓、大地懒……这些都是曾经生活在地球上的神奇动物，之所以说“曾经”，是因为它们已经灭绝了。
“灭绝”这个词听起来有点可怕，但假如地球上存在过的生物都不曾灭绝，那么我们就要和霸王龙、刃齿虎还有猛犸象朝夕相处了，海洋也会成为巨型鱼类的天下，还会有奶牛那么大的超级仓鼠、比公交车还要长的巨蟒……读完这本书，你就会知道那些（幸好）灭绝了的倒霉蛋都有谁，它们的样子又有多非同寻常！
除此之外，我们还有一个等候室。那里安静地坐着在灭绝边缘徘徊的动物们，比如墨西哥钝口螈、穿山甲和伊犁鼠兔等。至于它们的命运是从等候室里走出去，重新回到大自然的怀抱中，还是要和猛犸象、渡渡鸟做伴，则要由你我来共同决定了。
作者简介
洛特·斯蒂格曼是一名作家，也是记者。她曾经长期担任《儿童周刊》的主编，也是《绿色大脚和野兽邻居》一书的作者。为了写这本书，她认真翻阅了很多自然历史博物馆的档案库，也到世界各地去参观化石、访问古生物学家和动物学家。
这本书里的精彩插图都是马莉克·尼尔森的作品。她为《绿色大脚和野兽邻居》创作的插图获得了插图协会“三角旗”奖。在开始为这本书绘制插图之前，她可是把这些动物从头到脚观察了很久，一个细节都没有放过。洛特和马莉克的合作让这本书里的动物有了新的生命。
张佳琛，译者，北京外国语大学荷兰语专业教师，硕士研究生毕业于比利时天主教鲁汶大学，翻译代表作品包括《万万没想到：321个冷知识》、《身体的秘密：从细胞到不可思议的你》等。
Here you will see: Megalodon, Bladedon, Startail, crane, Eerworm, giant vented dragonfly, earth sloth... These are all amazing animals that once lived on Earth, and we say "once" because they are now extinct.
The word "extinction" sounds scary, but if nothing that ever lived on Earth went extinct, we'd be living alongside tyrannosaurs, bludgeons, and mammoths, and the oceans would be filled with giant fish, hamsters the size of cows, pythons longer than buses... After reading this book, you will know who these (fortunately) extinct unlucky people are, and how unusual they look!
In addition, we have a waiting room. There sit quietly animals hovering on the edge of extinction, such as the Mexican amblystoma, pangolins and the pika ili. Whether they go out of the waiting room and back into the wild, or join the mammoths and dodos, is for you and me to decide.
About the author
Lotte Stegman is a writer and journalist. She was the longtime editor in chief of Kids Weekly and the author of Green Feet and the Beast Neighbors. To write the book, she pored over the archives of natural history museums and traveled around the world looking at fossils and interviewing paleontologists and zoologists.
The wonderful illustrations in this book are the work of Malik Nelson. Her illustrations for Green Feet and the Beast Neighbors won the Illustration Society's Pennant Award. Before she began to illustrate the book, she had observed the animals from head to toe for a long time, and had not missed a single detail. Lotte and Malik's collaboration has given new life to the animals in this book.
Zhang Jiachen, translator and Dutch language teacher of Beijing Foreign Studies University, graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium with a master's degree. His translation works include "Never Expected: 321 Facts" and "Secrets of the Body: From Cells to the Incredible You".
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