The Extreme Life of the Sea

The Extreme Life of the Sea
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780691169811
ISBN-13 : 0691169810
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Book Synopsis The Extreme Life of the Sea by : Stephen R. Palumbi

Download or read book The Extreme Life of the Sea written by Stephen R. Palumbi and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Extreme Life of the Sea exposes the eternal darkness of the deepest undersea trenches to show how marine life thrives against the odds, describing how flying fish strain to escape their predators, how predatory deep-sea fish use red searchlights only they can see to find and attack food, and how, at the end of her life, a mother octopus dedicates herself to raising her batch of young.


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