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Language
English
Description
Get the Summary of Jonathan Meiburg's A Most Remarkable Creature in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Most Remarkable Creature" by Jonathan Meiburg is a comprehensive exploration of the caracaras, a group of raptors with unique social behaviors and intelligence. The book traces the evolutionary history and ecological significance of these birds, particularly the striated caracaras of the Falkland Islands, which...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 55 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Niagara Falls is the story of an extraordinary ecosystem larger than the state of Texas, and more precious than oil. The heartbeat of this remarkable water world is Niagara Falls. Through the eyes of passionate scientists and naturalists, we uncover a complex world forged by stone and powered by water. In this realm, tiny shrews hunt in freezing-cold rivers, spectacular shorebird migration unfolds over thundering falls, snowy owls stalk their prey...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover editon.
Physical Desc
216 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Internationally bestselling author and renowned scientist Tim Flannery and his daughter, scientist Emma Flannery, deliver an informative-yet-intimate portrait of the megalodon, an extinct shark and the largest predator of all time. When Tim Flannery was a boy he found a fossilized tooth of the giant shark megalodon at a beach near his home in Australia. This remarkable find--the tooth was large enough to cover his palm--sparked an interest in paleontology...
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