Betting on Forever 1st edition

The place is earth, the time is now, Meganeura, Sabertoothed Tiger, Wooly Mammoth, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and a colorful cast of dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and other extinct creatures have returned to earth for a ten-thousand year reunion. The old home planet looks pretty good to them--no comets crashing into earth, Ice Ages, or erupting volcanoes--until the Dodo, ``an extinct bird with an attitude problem,'' bets Sabertoothed Tiger that by the end of the reunion they will all agree that their living relatives are in danger and that life on Earth is in more trouble than ever before. Lining up on both sides of the argument--each one confident that their side will win the bet--the spirits embark on a captivating and often hilarious journey to their old haunts to spy on present-day animals of the air, sea, and land. Offering a message of hope as well as solid lessons on evolution, ecology, endangerment, extinction, and the importance of keystone species, Aronson skillfully employs a facts-in-fiction approach to make readers of all ages aware of the delicate indterdependency of all living things.