Book Description
Discusses why the jellyfish population has exploded in recent years and why their dominance is indicative of a declining ocean ecosystem.
Author : Lisa-ann Gershwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 23,40 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022621303X
Discusses why the jellyfish population has exploded in recent years and why their dominance is indicative of a declining ocean ecosystem.
Author : Michele Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781584537519
Doscover Our World
Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432940074
Introduces jellyfish, describing their physical characteristics, feeding habits, senses, and defense mechanisms.
Author : Juli Berwald
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0735211280
"A book full of wonders" —Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk "Witty, insightful. . . .The story of jellyfish. . . is a significant part of the environmental story. Berwald's engaging account of these delicate, often ignored creatures shows how much they matter to our oceans' future." —New York Times Book Review Jellyfish have been swimming in our oceans for well over half a billion years, longer than any other animal that lives on the planet. They make a venom so toxic it can kill a human in three minutes. Their sting—microscopic spears that pierce with five million times the acceleration of gravity—is the fastest known motion in the animal kingdom. Made of roughly 95 percent water, some jellies are barely perceptible virtuosos of disguise, while others glow with a luminescence that has revolutionized biotechnology. Yet until recently, jellyfish were largely ignored by science, and they remain among the most poorly understood of ocean dwellers. More than a decade ago, Juli Berwald left a career in ocean science to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas, but jellyfish drew her back to the sea. Recent, massive blooms of billions of jellyfish have clogged power plants, decimated fisheries, and caused millions of dollars of damage. Driven by questions about how overfishing, coastal development, and climate change were contributing to a jellyfish population explosion, Juli embarked on a scientific odyssey. She traveled the globe to meet the biologists who devote their careers to jellies, hitched rides on Japanese fishing boats to see giant jellyfish in the wild, raised jellyfish in her dining room, and throughout it all marveled at the complexity of these alluring and ominous biological wonders. Gracefully blending personal memoir with crystal-clear distillations of science, Spineless is the story of how Juli learned to navigate and ultimately embrace her ambition, her curiosity, and her passion for the natural world. She discovers that jellyfish science is more than just a quest for answers. It’s a call to realize our collective responsibility for the planet we share.
Author : Miriam Gross
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404231924
For a creature with no brain and no heart the jellyfish has done remarkably well. They are found from Antarctica to the tropics, in shallow waters or 12,000 feet below the ocean's surface. Students will learn how nature has ensured the survival of the weird and fascinating jellyfish.
Author : Louise Spilsbury
Publisher : Heinemann/Raintree
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432940058
This animal series takes a "day in the life" approach to look at different aspects of an animal's anatomy and behavior. Each book follows a sea animal through its day as it sleeps, eats, hunts, and moves.
Author : Lewis Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1101667060
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist The medusa is a tiny jellyfish that lives on the ventral surface of a sea slug found in the Bay of Naples. Readers will find themselves caught up in the fate of the medusa and the snail as a metaphor for eternal issues of life and death as Lewis Thomas further extends the exploration of man and his world begun in The Lives of a Cell. Among the treasures in this magnificent book are essays on the human genius for making mistakes, on disease and natural death, on cloning, on warts, and on Montaigne, as well as an assessment of medical science and health care. In these essays and others, Thomas once again conveys his observations of the scientific world in prose marked by wonder and wit.
Author : Lisa-ann Gershwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 022628770X
An introduction to these bizarre and beautiful creatures of the sea, filled with color photos and illustrations: “Fascinating.”—Boing Boing Jellyfish are the oldest multi-organed life form on the planet, having inhabited the ocean for more than five hundred million years. With their undulating umbrella-shaped bells and sprawling tentacles, they are compelling and gorgeous, strange and dangerous. In many places they’re also vastly increasing in number, and these population blooms may be an ominous indicator of the rising temperatures and toxicity of the oceans. Jellyfish presents these aquarium favorites in all their glory. Fifty unique species, from the purple people eater to black sea nettles, are presented in stunning photos along with the most current scientific information on their anatomy, history, distribution, position in the water, and environmental status. Foremost jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin provides an insightful look at the natural history and biology of each of these spellbinding creatures, plus a timely take on their place in the rapidly changing and deteriorating condition of the oceans. Learn about immortal jellyfish who live and die and live again—as well as those who camouflage themselves amid sea grasses and shells, hiding in plain sight. Discover the jellyfish that’s the world’s most venomous animal, and the jellyfish that helped scientists win the Nobel Prize. They’re all here and more in this delightful volume. “A thorough coverage of jellyfish history, biology and ecology. Gershwin, a marine biologist who has discovered over 200 new species of jellyfish, does an excellent job of combining a compelling narrative of 50 different jellyfish with luscious, I-can’t-believe-they’re-real photos.”—Boing Boing
Author : Summer09 Publishers
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2019-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781077243743
Lined Notebook Journal 106 pages 6"x9" Impress your friends and family with this Awesome retirement gift for your retired mom or dad who loves dolphins and Hawaiian islands. Wear your sunglasses and get ready for Hawaiian Surfing. Aloha beaches amigos is best gift idea for surfers, divers, boaters and beach lovers. Last Day of School is gone and summer vacation is here, but are you ready to enjoy this Tropical Summer Sunset? Ready to enjoy surfboarding, eating Pineapple and coconut under palm tree in a sunny day? Best birthday gift for kids, boys and girls. This notebook / journal Can be used as a: Diary or gratitude journal. A travel journal to document your adventures & journey. To write down your login names and passwords. Recipebook To record your food recipes. Notebook to document your progress toward your fitness goals. Notebook for writing and note-taking in home or job. For what occasions & holidays: This notebook / journal can be a good gift idea for your mom in mothers day, your dad in fathers day, for your kids in their birthdays. Yes, you can gifted this notebook as a gift in valentines day, halloween and christmas as well. And it makes a great gift idea for Students and teachers for graduation or back to school.
Author : Corinne Demas
Publisher : Persnickety Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-05
Category : Marine animals
ISBN : 9781943978441
Do starfish sign autographs? Do seahorses wear saddles? Do lampreys get plugged in? Get silly with sea creatures in Do Jellyfish Like Peanut Butter?, the underwater follow-up to the award-winning insect book, Do Doodlebugs Doodle? This laugh-out-loud look at marine life will have kids eager to learn more about what lies beneath the ocean waves