The seahorse is one of nature’s most startling creations. The Ancients thought these creatures pulled the chariots of Neptune. Now we have reduced it to an endangered species.
Romeo: The Story of an Alaskan Wolf is the true and heartwarming account of an urban legend. Orphaned and alone, Romeo has made the Mendenhal Glacier outside Juneau his territory for the past decade, subsisting on a diet of small mammals and fish.
The mammoth, with its shaggy coat, enormous tusks, and ponderous presence, is one of the great icons of extinction. It is also one of the few prehistoric creatures that is known not only from a few scattered fossilized bones, but from specimens that have been preserved perfectly, with skin, flesh and hair.
The Great Auk, a seabird whose extinction was entirely the work of humankind, ceased to exist on the morning of the third day of June, 1844, when the last two recorded great auks were killed by three fishermen on the island of Eldey, a few miles south of Iceland in the North Atlantic Ocean.
The story of the dodo is a classic of evolution and extinction equal in fascination to that of the dinosaur or the saber-toothed tiger. Unlike these, however, the dodo was the first recorded example of an extinction that was, in all probability, entirely caused by humans.
The North Atlantic right whale is the most endangered large whale in the oceans today. This is a story of science and rediscovery, of survival and protection, and of research, without which we cannot hope to protect the right whale’s habitat.
For most of her long life Floy Morway, begged, borrowed, saved, and even stole cats to save them from abuse, abandonment, and worse. Over 40 years ago she founded Adopt-a-Cat, an organization which has now saved thousands of feline lives.
In his richly illustrated documentary tribute to the American animal and other foreign nationals in flight, the author introduces an all star cast, from the Montgolfier brothers first balloon-borne menagerie (a sheep, a rooster and a duck) to Kiddo and more.
Amazing Jellies presents an entertaining and authoritative look into the little-known world of what we commonly, but incorrectly, have known as jellyfish. Jellies are among the most beautiful and unusual animals on earth.