Bibliograph

Spying on whales, the past, present, and future of Earth's most awesome creatures, Nick Pyenson; illustrations by Alex Boersma

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Spying on whales, the past, present, and future of Earth's most awesome creatures, Nick Pyenson; illustrations by Alex Boersma

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

mapschartsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Spying on whales

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Nick Pyenson; illustrations by Alex Boersma

Sub title

the past, present, and future of Earth's most awesome creatures

Summary

"Tracing the evolution of whales from small land-roamers to the intelligent, massive creatures of today, an award-winning Smithsonian researcher shares scientific and archaeological insights into their mysteries and survival challenges." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

How to know a whale -- Mammals like no other -- The stories bones tell -- Time travel on the fossil whale highway -- The afterlife of a whale -- Rock picks and lasers -- Cracking the case of Cerro Ballena -- The age of giants -- The ocean's utmost bones -- A discovery at Hvalfjördur -- Phsycis and flensing knives -- The limits of living things -- Arctic time machines -- Shifting baselines -- All the ways to go extinct -- Evolution in the Anthropocene -- Whalebone junction -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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Past, present, and future of Earth's most awesome creatures

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