Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures (How Nature Works)

Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures (How Nature Works)
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Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Total Pages : 50
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ISBN-10 : 9780884485537
ISBN-13 : 0884485536
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Book Synopsis Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures (How Nature Works) by : Paul Erickson

Download or read book Don't Mess with Me: The Strange Lives of Venomous Sea Creatures (How Nature Works) written by Paul Erickson and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of venoms in nature … and in human medicine Why are toxins so advantageous to their possessors as to evolve over and over again? What is it about watery environments that favors so many venomous creatures? Marine biologist Paul Erickson explores these and other questions with astounding images from Andrew Martinez and other top underwater photographers. GREAT for teaching STEM Marine Biology Scorpions and brown recluse spiders are fine as far as they go, but if you want daily contact with venomous creatures, the ocean is the place to be. Blue-ringed octopi, stony corals, sea jellies, stonefish, lionfish, poison-fanged blennies, stingrays, cone snails, blind remipedes, fire urchins—you can choose your poison in the ocean. Venoms are often but not always defensive weapons. The banded sea krait, an aquatic snake, wriggles into undersea caves to prey on vicious moray eels, killing them with one of the world’s most deadly neurotoxins, which it injects through fangs that resemble hypodermic needles.


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