Dont Mess With Me The Strange Lives Of Venomous Sea Creatures How Nature Works
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Author |
: Paul Erickson |
Publisher |
: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 50 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780884485537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0884485536 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures (How Nature Works) by : Paul Erickson
The role of venoms in nature … and in human medicine Why are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explores these and other questions with astounding images from Andrew Martinez and other top underwater photographers. GREAT for teaching STEM Marine Biology Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins—you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world’s most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles.
Author |
: Helen Taylor |
Publisher |
: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 42 |
Release |
: 2024-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781668944974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1668944979 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chasing Guano: The Discovery of a Penguin Supercolony (How Nature Works) by : Helen Taylor
When scientist Heather Lynch came across a satellite image of the Antarctic Peninsula's remote Danger Islands streaked with pink, she knew exactly what she was looking at. . . . Poop—guano, to be more specific—and a lot of it. The culprit, she suspected, was a previously unnoticed colony of penguins. A big one. And their favorite food appeared to be pink krill. For a closer look, Heather built a team for an expedition to the Danger Islands, an area notorious for its unpredictable sea ice. Their mission was to count the penguins, determine how long ago the colony was established, and make a case for protecting their habitat from overfishing and other threats. Penguins are particularly important to study because, as indicator species, they can alert scientists to issues affecting the larger ecosystem. Join Heather and her team on a fascinating exploration of these remote islands as they discover a “supercolony” home to one of the world’s largest populations of Adélie penguins. Features team photos from the expedition!
Author |
: Sneed B. Collard III |
Publisher |
: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 42 |
Release |
: 2018-12-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780884486510 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0884486516 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis One Iguana, Two Iguanas: A Story of Accident, Natural Selection, and Evolution (How Nature Works) by : Sneed B. Collard III
KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW 2020 Outstanding Science Trade List A Junior Library Guild Selection Natural selection and speciation are all but ignored in children’s nonfiction. To help address this glaring deficiency, award-winning children’s science writer Sneed Collard traveled to the Galapagos Islands to see for himself, where Charles Darwin saw, how new species form. The result is this fascinating story of two species of iguana, one land-based and one marine, both of which developed from a single ancestor that reached the islands millions of years ago. The animals evolved in different directions while living within sight of one another. How is that possible? Collard uses the iguanas to explore Charles Darwin’s great discovery. F&P Level V
Author |
: Erich Hoyt |
Publisher |
: Firefly Books |
Total Pages |
: 112 |
Release |
: 2020-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0228102979 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780228102977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strange Sea Creatures by : Erich Hoyt
Praise for Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In: "Erich Hoyt captures the excitement and beauty of recent advances [in ocean science]. With lavish photos and engaging, accurate prose, he takes readers on a journey of wonder through the ocean's layers and around the planet, shedding light on extraordinary lives." -- BBC Wildlife Marine researchers are discovering new ocean creatures every day, especially at its deepest depths. From the author of Creatures of the Deep, Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises and other books about the ocean and the animals that live there, comes a new title about some of the most unusual marine life forms. The book organizes the creatures into three parts based on where they live in the ocean. Each part has representatives from the various marine animal classes (e.g., fish, crustaceans, jellyfish and siphonophores, squids, tunicates and other invertebrates). Informative captions accompany the 90 gorgeous photographs of otherworldly creatures. Part 1: Surface Waters of the Ocean at Night: The Blackwater Vertical Migrators In images taken by dedicated blackwater photographers Linda Ianniello and Susan Mears, these mostly larval creatures haunt the near-surface waters making vertical migrations every night to feed. Part 2: Middle to Deep Dark Waters: Masters of the Language of Light In this perpetual night, survival is a matter of being able to understand and process light signals, some in different colors, some flashing, some faint -- the most sophisticated use of bioluminescence on Earth. The sea creatures here are small with big eyes and even larger mouths with extraordinarily sharp teeth. Photographer David Shale traveled with BBC Blue Planet and other expeditions to photograph these deep sea creatures, while photographers Solvin Zankl, Alexander Semenov and others brought their own dedication to expeditions in the Pacific, Indian, Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Part 3. The Continental Shelf to the Abyssal Plain: The Bottom Dwellers This bottom of the sea has fewer fish, and is populated by such alien-like creatures as no-eyed or tripod fish, sea cucumbers, as well as basket stars, crabs, and worms with species varying by depth and location. The introduction to each part of the book describes what makes the ocean waters at that depth unique, and why it is home to specific types of sea life. The photographs were taken in the ocean by expert divers and submariners, most of whom are both scientists and underwater photographers. The images display the creatures vividly against a background as black as the ocean depths.
Author |
: Thomas A. Dozier |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 1976 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822012180691 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dangerous Sea Creatures by : Thomas A. Dozier
A Time-Life television book; consultants, W.G. Conway and others.
Author |
: Thomas Helm |
Publisher |
: Funk & Wagnalls Company |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 1976-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 030810238X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780308102385 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Dangerous Sea Creatures by : Thomas Helm
Author |
: Duke |
Publisher |
: Carson-Dellosa Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 52 |
Release |
: 2010-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781617411755 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1617411752 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Infections, Infestations, and Diseases by : Duke
Learn About The History Of Many Infections, Infestations, And Diseases, What's Being Done To Stop Them, And What You Can Do To Stay Healthy.
Author |
: Lulu Miller |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501160349 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501160346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Fish Don't Exist by : Lulu Miller
Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
Author |
: Peter Brown |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1536435074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781536435078 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Wild Robot by : Peter Brown
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
Author |
: Heidi Ayarbe |
Publisher |
: Momentum |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1503825167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781503825161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life with Spina Bifida by : Heidi Ayarbe
Gives readers a look into the lives and abilities of people who have spina bifida, as well as the challenges they face. Learn how medications, therapy, and other treatments help people with spina bifida every day. Additional features include a table of contents, an informative infographic, a Fast Facts spread, critical-thinking questions, a phonetic glossary, a selected bibliography, an index, sources for further research, and information about the author.