North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders--or is that evolution in another...
North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arr...
These and a very few other animals are extreme survivors. All of them have been around at least 125 million years, surviving mass extinctions like the one that ended the dinosaurs.Evolution may have altered their physiology through the eons, but not their appearance.
More than 99 percent of all life forms have gone extinct during the 3.6-billion-year history of life on Earth. How have these -living fossils---these living links with Earth's prehistoric past--survived? The search for answers is leading scientists to amazing discoveries--not only about the past, but also the future--and...
These and a very few other animals are extreme survivors. All of them have been around at least 125 million years, surviving mass extinctions like ...
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
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 venom...
