Marine Life category: 1318 books
by Josie Keogh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Learn what helps a mammal survive the depths of the cold, populous oceans. Examine the adaptive features and diets of marine mammals, and explore their distinct methods of reproduction and nurturing. Learn about climate change and its risk to marine mammal and environmental preservation. Vocabulary call-outs...
To Touch a Wild Dolphin
A Journey of Discovery with the Sea's Most Intelligent Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
To Touch a Wild Dolphin is the first intimate account of dolphin life in the wild. In 1982 Rachel Smolker traveled to Monkey Mia, a remote beach on the west coast of Australia where wild dolphins regularly interact with humans. Over the next fifteen years, Smolker and a team of fellow scientists were...
The Northwest Coastal Explorer
Your Guide to the Places, Plants, and Animals of the Pacific Coast
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
“Part field guide, part travel guide, Steelquist writes with the authoritative voice of that friend you want next to you on the trail or in the dunes—the one who knows just where to go for a weekend getaway and what to pack for the Pacific Northwest’s unpredictable weather.” —Portland Monthly
Millions...
Eye of the Albatross
Visions of Hope and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
"One of the most delightful natural history studies in decades." —The Boston Globe
Eye of the Albatross takes us soaring to locales where whales, sea turtles, penguins, and shearwaters flourish in their own quotidian rhythms. Carl Safina's guide and inspiration is an albatross he...
Fishes of the Last Frontier
Life Histories, Biology, Ecology, and Management of Alaska's Fishes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Fishes of the Last Frontier answers many of your fish questions and others you haven't even thought of yet in a nontechnical, plain talk voice. Learn about the fishes that are of value or special interest to Alaskans: how fish are able to survive and grow, how they get along with each other--or not--and...
Creatures of the Deep
In Search of the Sea's Monsters and the World They Live In
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Praise for the first edition: "More than a picture book ... Hoyt's elegant writing provides both the historical background for deep-sea exploration and an ecological perspective on life in the ocean's depths." -- American Scientist "A magnificent bestiary ... and a reminder of how...
by Dona Herweck Rice
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
From tide pools to the ocean, the sea is filled with amazing life forms! Early readers will be engaged from beginning to end with informational text, vivid photos, and a picture glossary of marine animals.
by Ellen Prager
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea’s waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of life—to reproduce, to eat, and to avoid being eaten....
Crab Wars
A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Surviving almost unmolested for 300 million years, the horseshoe crab is now the object of an intense legal and ethical struggle involving marine biologists, environmentalists, US government officials, biotechnologists, and international corporations. The source of this friction is the discovery 25...
by Cinzia Codato
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
These are horizons that have passed before my eyes in two years of my life, the two years of my sailing trip around the world.
This book is not a marine navigation manual, nor a guide to tropical countries, or a naturalistic documentary, or a love story, but it's a bit of everything.
This is my life...
Seahorses
A Life-Size Guide to Every Species
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Absolutely captivating creatures, seahorses seem like a product of myth and imagination rather than of nature. They are small, elusive, and are named for their heads, which are shaped like miniature ponies with tiny snouts. They swim slowly upright by rapidly fanning their delicate dorsal fin, coil...
Vertical Reefs
Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of underwater species who find food, shelter, and permanent homes in the ecosystem created by these big, three-dimensional...
Shark Life
True Stories About Sharks & the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley draws on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face to face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family have encountered, almost always on purpose—but sometimes...
Journey into the Deep
Discovering New Ocean Creatures
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Have you ever wondered what mysteries the ocean holds? Prepare to explore the ocean from sunlit shallows to the deepest, darkest depths. Along the way, you'll meet many incredible creatures that are brand new to science.
Dive to a coral reef and spot a new species of pygmy octopus. Travel deeper...