The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life

The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's Strangest Creatures Reshape the Rules of Life, 1, 2025 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Other Publisher. Description By Drew Harvell An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologistHundred-year-old giant clams, coral kingdoms that rival human cities, and jellyfish that glow in the dark: ocean invertebrates are among the oldest and most diverse organisms on earth, seeming to bend the “rules” of land-based biology.

Key Features

- An elegantly written exploration of the cutting edge science of the strangest and most remarkable creatures on our planet by a leading marine biologistHundred-year-old giant…
- Although sometimes unseen in the deep, the spineless creatures contain 600 million years of adaptation to problems of disease, energy consumption, nutrition, and defense
- In The Ocean’s Menagerie, world-renowned marine ecologist Dr
- Drew Harvell takes us diving from Hawaii to the Salish Sea, from St
- Croix to Indonesia, to uncover the incredible underwater “superpowers” of spineless creatures: we meet corals many times stronger than steel or concrete, sponges who create potent…
- As our planet changes fast, the biomedical, engineering, and energy innovations of these wonderous creatures inspire ever more important solutions to our own survival
- The Ocean’s Menagerie is a tale of biological marvels, a story of a woman’s passionate connection to an adventurous career in science, and a call to arms to protect the world’s…

Product Details

Publisher: Other Publisher
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2025
Format: EPUB
File Size: 45.8 MB
ISBN: 978-0593654286, 9780593654293, 9798217064342, 9798217064335