Watery Creatures
reveals the many amazing strategies, adaptations and behaviours that marine plants and animals have developed in order to bring able live and flourish in our greatest eco-system, the world's oceans.
Covering 78 percent of the Earth's surface, the oceans are our greatest biospheres, and the final frontiers. They also provide the essence of life for all Watery Creatures that live there.
The oceans are in fact superior to land as an environment for life … mehrsupport. By understanding this medium, the first to support life on Earth, we can begin to understand how and why Watery Creatures have so many amaing and unique characteristics.
Rocky Shores
From a distance, one would scarcely imaginethe wealth of life that lives on, in, under, and among the rocks that make much of any coastline. To many of us, these are places for a casual walk, for poking about, or where fishing bait can be collected.
But how many of us have had a really close look at what lives there? What could possibly survive where waves constantly pound the rocks, where there is a constant danger of being swept away?
This is The Rocky Shore and uch of the life that is found here is extraordinary, weird and some even bizarre beyond belief. weniger