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Explore the fascinating world of animals - the shapes of their bodies, the food they eat, the adorable animal babies - through simple text and colourful, whimsical illustrations.
Author : Michael Dahl
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : 1404862331
Explore the fascinating world of animals - the shapes of their bodies, the food they eat, the adorable animal babies - through simple text and colourful, whimsical illustrations.
Author : Samantha Brenton
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781908100085
Welly the whale had the whole ocean to play in, but he wanted more...
Author : Emily James
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1496634640
Do whales have whiskers? Find the answer to this and much more in this book all about animal's body parts.
Author : Nick Pyenson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0735224587
“A palaeontological howdunnit…[Spying on Whales] captures the excitement of…seeking answers to deep questions in cetacean science.” —Nature Called “the best of science writing” (Edward O. Wilson) and named a best book by Popular Science, a dive into the secret lives of whales, from their four-legged past to their perilous present. Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet. They evolved from land-roaming, dog-sized creatures into animals that move like fish, breathe like us, can grow to 300,000 pounds, live 200 years and travel entire ocean basins. Whales fill us with terror, awe, and affection--yet there is still so much we don't know about them. Why did it take whales over 50 million years to evolve to such big sizes, and how do they eat enough to stay that big? How did their ancestors return from land to the sea--and what can their lives tell us about evolution as a whole? Importantly, in the sweepstakes of human-driven habitat and climate change, will whales survive? Nick Pyenson's research has given us the answers to some of our biggest questions about whales. He takes us deep inside the Smithsonian's unparalleled fossil collections, to frigid Antarctic waters, and to the arid desert in Chile, where scientists race against time to document the largest fossil whale site ever found. Full of rich storytelling and scientific discovery, Spying on Whales spans the ancient past to an uncertain future--all to better understand the most enigmatic creatures on Earth.
Author : Lois King Winn
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Whale watchers & armchair naturalists will join scientists & environmentalists in welcoming this excellent illustrated introduction to the humpback.
Author : Tony Rice
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1408197944
Using a question and answer format, this entertaining narrative addresses a multitude of general interest questions about the sea, sea life, seabirds and man's relationship with the sea. Have you ever wondered: Does drinking seawater drive you mad? Do fish drink water? Does anything eat jellyfish? How do flying fish fly? Why do icebergs float? Do Whales Get the Bends? will answer these and over a hundred other intriguing questions. Inspired by questions raised whilst the author was guest lecturer on cruise ships, this fascinating and informative book is a light-hearted, surprising and entertaining read for anyone interested in the sea in its many forms. Each bite-sized entry is no more than two or three pages long, making it an ideal book to dip into for anyone interested in the oceans and the teeming life above and below them.
Author : Dougal Dixon
Publisher :
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1912413957
When the Whales Walked is an exquisitely illustrated exploration of the most incredible events in evolution, through 13 case studies. Discover a world where whales once walked, crocodiles were warm-blooded, and rhinos ruled the Earth!
Author : Carl Zimmer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1999-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0684856239
Everybody Out of the Pond At the Water's Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life's transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we got here, what we left behind, and what we brought with us. We all know about evolution, but it still seems absurd that our ancestors were fish. Darwin's idea of natural selection was the key to solving generation-to-generation evolution -- microevolution -- but it could only point us toward a complete explanation, still to come, of the engines of macroevolution, the transformation of body shapes across millions of years. Now, drawing on the latest fossil discoveries and breakthrough scientific analysis, Carl Zimmer reveals how macroevolution works. Escorting us along the trail of discovery up to the current dramatic research in paleontology, ecology, genetics, and embryology, Zimmer shows how scientists today are unveiling the secrets of life that biologists struggled with two centuries ago. In this book, you will find a dazzling, brash literary talent and a rigorous scientific sensibility gracefully brought together. Carl Zimmer provides a comprehensive, lucid, and authoritative answer to the mystery of how nature actually made itself.
Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 29,50 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9387421031
Assertion-Reason Questions are the most tedious part in the AIIMS examination. They require not only understanding the statements but also the correct and accurate conceptual reasoning. Assertion-Reason Question Bank in Biology for AIIMS provides a comprehensive set of questionnaires to supplement learning from the NCERT textbooks. The book contains, in all, 2000+ questions with 95% + explanations. This book is devised for students to overcome the difficulty faced by them in attempting Assertion and Reason questions. It will help them to refine their concepts and emerge out successful in various competitive medical entrance examinations. This entire book comprises of chapter-wise questions according to the NCERT curriculum. At the end of every chapter, detailed solutions have been provided to help students with self-assessment. The uniqueness of this book lies in the new set of questions providing coverage of the entire NCERT syllabus.
Author : John C. Wright
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765329298
The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity's value as slaves. For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threat in very different ways. One of them is Ximen del Azarchel, immortal leader of the mutineers from the starship Hermetic and self-appointed Master of the World, who has allowed his followers to tamper continuously with the evolutionary destiny of Man, creating one bizarre race after another in an apparent search for a species the Hyades will find worthy of conquest. The other is Menelaus Montrose, the posthuman Judge of Ages, whose cryonic Tombs beneath the surface of Earth have preserved survivors from each epoch created by the Hermeticists. Montrose intends to thwart the alien invaders any way he can, and to remain alive long enough to be reunited with his bride Rania, who is on a seventy-millennia journey to confront the Hyades' masters, tens of thousands of light-years away. Now, with the countdown to the Hyades' arrival nearing its end, del Azarchel and Montrose square off for what is to be their final showdown for the fate of Earth, a battle of gunfire and cliometric calculus; powered armor and posthuman intelligence. Judge of Ages is the wildly inventive third volume in a series exploring future history and human evolution from John C. Wright.