Presents a visual tour of the anatomical strengths of members of the animal kingdom and lends insight into their behaviors and abilities, from the reasons for the cheetah's speed to a termite's instinct to build a cooling system into its home. --
Introduces one hundred animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, and addresses anatomy, senses, and animal lifestyles.
Presents a visual tour of the anatomical strengths of members of the animal kingdom and lends insight into their behaviors and abilities, from the reasons for the cheetah's speed to a termite's instinct to build a cooling system into its home. --
"This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures-- weird, wonderful, and everything in between-- are inextricably linked."--Amazon.com. Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imaginin…
"Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we're all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelloid ro…
"This fascinating scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world's creatures-- weird, wonderful, and everything in between-- are inextricably linked."--Amazon.com. Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It's weirder than we are capable of imaginin…
In the spirit of medieval bestiaries, presents a series of bizarre creatures that are very much a part of the real world, including the honey badger, giant squid, axolotl, zebrafish, waterbear, and yeti crab. "From medieval bestiaries to Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, we've…
In the spirit of medieval bestiaries, presents a series of bizarre creatures that are very much a part of the real world, including the honey badger, giant squid, axolotl, zebrafish, waterbear, and yeti crab. "From medieval bestiaries to Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, we've…
"Drawing Wild Animals combines fascinating facts with guided drawing instruction so artists are better able to capture their subjects' stunning beauty and enchanting details"--
Drawing Wild Animals combines fascinating facts with guided drawing instruction so artists are better able to capture their subjects' stunning beauty and enchanting details.
Record breakers!/edited by Chris Hawkes
Record Breakers brings you the first, fastest, longest, largest, biggest, and best records in the world. Track the longest shark migration (20,000 km/12,400 miles); visit the coolest place on the planet (Vostok Station, Antarctica: a chilling -89.2C/-128.6F); see how plane pione…
Record breakers!
Record Breakers brings you the first, fastest, longest, largest, biggest, and best records in the world. Track the longest shark migration (20,000 km/12,400 miles); visit the coolest place on the planet (Vostok Station, Antarctica: a chilling -89.2ºC/-128.6ºF); see how plane pio…
Record breakers!
Record Breakers brings you the first, fastest, longest, largest, biggest, and best records in the world. Track the longest shark migration (20,000 km/12,400 miles); visit the coolest place on the planet (Vostok Station, Antarctica: a chilling -89.2°C/-128.6°F); see how plane pio…
Packed with mind-blowing facts and awesome illustrations, this brilliant book for kids reveals incredible information about the weird and wonderful world of animals. Can you believe an ant recently discovered in the treetops of Borneo explodes when under attack, covering enemy a…
Did you know that one blue whale weighs as much as 32 Asian elephants? That can't be true, you say! Yes it is, and this book put the whale on the scales to show you! Packed with mind-blowing facts and awesome illustrations, this brilliant book for kids reveals incredible informa…