A young girl's dream to swim with a blue whale may finally come true when her mother, a writer, arranges for them to accompany her friends who are marine biologists on a research trip to Mexico.

"Rachel Carson and Ecology for Kids explores the life and ideas of American biologist, conservationist, and science writer Rachel Carson, who served as the catalyst of the modern environmental movement"--

Presents a basic introduction to the reptile's development, discussing how an embryo grows into a hatchling and then into an adult turtle.

Two months after sixty-five thousand alien objects surrounded Earth and were burned by the atmosphere, a space probe hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system. A group of freaks and retrofits are sent to make contact with this unknown intelligence, including a linguist with multiple personalities, a biologist who has been radically interfaced with machinery, a pacifist warrior, a "vampire" recalled from the grave, and a synthesist--an informational...

Traces the life and work of the British biologist made famous by his controversial theory of natural selection.

In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes, alive. And very, very deadly. Because it has been programmed as a ruthless predator, a predator that becomes more dangerous with every passing hour ... And we are the prey.

The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, animal researchers, biologists, and geneticists have all contributed valuable new insights into language...

Toy Sooner, who has worked five years to become a strong single mother and a marine biologist at the South Carolina Aquarium, remembers her vow when Olivia Rutledge passed away; as Toy writes a report, her daughter points to a floating object in the sea, a sick sea turtle that needs help.

"Biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how venoms function and what they do to the human body. With Wilcox as our guide, we encounter a jellyfish with tentacles covered in stinging cells that can kill humans in minutes; a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging;...