Author: Frances DipperPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Discusses how unusual fish communicate, reproduce, feed, move, and survive.
Extraordinary Fish
Author: Frances DipperPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Discusses how unusual fish communicate, reproduce, feed, move, and survive.
Ordinary Amos and the Amazing Fish
Author: Eugenie FernandesPublisher: Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
ISBN: 9780590517379
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Amos is an ordinary man with an ordinary life. Every day he fishes in an ordinary pond, then goes home to his ordinary house. But one extraordinary day, an amazing fish catches Amos and takes him home! What should the fish family do with Amos? Fry him in butter with salt and pepper? Hang him on the wall as a trophy? Little Fish wants to keep Amos as a pet...will Amos's life ever be ordinary again?
Oceanic Anglerfishes
Author: Theodore W. Pietsch Ph.D.Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520942558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
No environment on Earth imposes greater physical and biological constraints on life than the deep oceanic midwaters. Near-freezing temperatures, the absence of sunlight, enormous pressure, and a low food supply make habitation by any living thing almost inconceivable. Yet 160 species of anglerfishes are found there in surprising profusion. Monstrous in appearance, anglerfishes possess a host of unique and spectacular morphological, behavioral, and physiological innovations. In this fully illustrated book, the first to focus on these intriguing fish, Theodore W. Pietsch delivers a comprehensive summary of all that is known about anglerfishes—morphology, diversity, evolution, geographic distribution, bioluminescence, and reproduction.
The Fish and Rice Chronicles
Author: PG BryanPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462890989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In 1960s Palau, life was raucous, laughable, and harrowing. I lived with a Palauan family in a decrepit old shack of plywood and cardboard which almost burned down. When my elusive heart throb finally led me to her room one night, I barely avoided coming under the knife. I could never have imagined I would find myself stranded one stormy night on a reef infested with sea snakes; or find myself positioned in the middle of a riot between locals and the US Coast Guard. But whether diving with Life Magazines Stan Wayman, fending off sharks for underwater photographer Doug Faulkner, fishing with Lee Marvin, or searching for starfish, it was mostly all good.
The Fish Classes
Author: Rebecca StefoffPublisher: Marshall Cavendish
ISBN: 9780761426950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Did you know that half of all the animals in the world that have backbones are fish? There are more kinds of fishes than there are amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals added together. And scientists are discovering more species of fish almost weekly. Brilliantly colored or camouflaged, as big as a whale or smaller than a little fingernail, fishes are found almost everywhere there is water. The Fish Classes explores the origins of the first fishes, with a glimpse of some of the extraordinary varieties that became extinct long ago. The book also examines the five classes of modern fishes, surveys their physical features, habitats, and ways of life, as well as some of the threats they face today. Book jacket.
Your Inner Fish
Author: Neil ShubinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307377164
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells a “compelling scientific adventure story that will change forever how you understand what it means to be human” (Oliver Sacks). By examining fossils and DNA, he shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our heads are organized like long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genomes look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Your Inner Fish makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm.
Special Publication
Author: American Geographical Society of New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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