Text

Extreme Nature: The Weirdest Animals and Plants on the Planet

---

Dive into the most bizarre, extreme, and awe-inspiring corners of the biological world with Extreme Nature, an extraordinary popular science compendium written by renowned zoologist Mark Carwardine and Rosamund Cox. Published by Collins, this engaging volume steps away from traditional dry species categorization to highlight organisms that possess mind-blowing physical adaptations and survival strategies. Structured systematically into four core thematic groups—Extreme Growth, Extreme Abilities, Extreme Movement, and Extreme Families—the text profiles more than 150 unique global biological wonders. Readers will discover everything from the smelliest plant and the most devious predatory flora to the hairiest creature, the deepest diving mammal, the fastest digger, and organisms with deadly mating habits. Combining scientifically rigorous descriptions with brilliant full-color wildlife photography, this reference makes complex evolutionary physics and biology highly accessible. This volume serves as an exceptional cross-disciplinary reference tool for ecology lessons, biology modules, and functions as an unputdownable foundational asset for any library's nature, science, or general wonders reference collections.

---

Availability

03764

508 CAR e

Elementary School Library

Available

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

508 CAR e

Publisher

New York, United States : HarperCollins Publishers., 2008

Collation

320 pages : full color photographs ; 19 x 21 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780061373893

Classification

508

Content Type

-

Media Type

-

Carrier Type

-

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Animals
plants
natural history
wildlife
animal behavior
Reference books
Miscellanea
Plant adaptation
Adaptation (Biology)

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

-

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment